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Rhymes Here is a list of the words that rhyme with the word approaching.This is ordered by best match. Changing color means the start of the next best set of words.
2 syllable words
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2 syllable words

arching

lunching

marching

scorching

couching

slouching

touching

coaching

coupling

farthing

forging

pinching

branching

bulging

launching

something

bitching

blushing

brushing

fetching

catching

clothing

etching

crushing

flushing

sparkling

pitching

switching

stitching

stretching

patching

scratching

searching

dumpling

gushing

latching

judging

nothing

matching

loathing

hatching

witching

arming

boarding

buckling

bunting

carling

carping

carving

charming

coursing

cuddling

darling

duckling

farming

forcing

forming

funding

grappling

harping

hoarding

horning

hunting

jumping

kipling

lumping

marking

morning

morphing

mourning

parking

parting

piercing

pumping

reproach

sapling

sharking

shuffling

shunting

snarling

sparling

sporting

starling

starting

storming

stripling

suckling

thrusting

thumping

trusting

warling

warming

warning

warping

bolling

boning

boating

chipping

boring

choking

chopping

clearing

cloaking

bowling

airing

barring

bearing

blaring

broking

browning

browsing

bucking

budding

butting

clipping

closing

coating

combing

coming

curing

cutting

daring

dipping

clouding

clowning

clucking

coping

culling

derring

cunning

doting

doubting

dripping

dropping

drugging

drumming

dubbing

ducking

during

firing

flaring

erring

earring

floating

flooding

flooring

foaming

fucking

gearing

gloaming

grouting

gunning

herring

holing

homing

offspring

oppressed

glaring

hopping

housing

hugging

humming

joking

jutting

lapping

loading

loaning

lopping

jarring

loring

mooring

mugging

nipping

loving

mapping

napping

nosing

pairing

nutting

outing

paring

piping

plugging

plumbing

poking

poling

pouting

polling

popping

prowling

puffing

putting

roaring

rolling

rousing

roving

rubbing

running

scarring

shearing

shipping

shoring

shrouding

slapping

sloping

smoking

soaking

sopping

stopping

stowing

strapping

stripping

snapping

steering

snoring

soaring

sparing

stroking

swearing

wellspring

sucking

whipping

whopping

wiring

topping

stunning

strutting

veering

voting

tipping

tripping

stuffing

trucking

wapping

wearing

breeching

edging

dishing

kindling

crashing

westling

nestling

dashing

birthing

bleaching

handling

rambling

fishing

tempting

flashing

lashing

merging

preaching

purging

pushing

thrashing

lodging

smoothing

soothing

teaching

tithing

wishing

washing

growing

owing

showing

flowing

going

glowing

blowing

drawing

lowing

mowing

throwing

lawing

crowing

knowing

sewing

bowing

belting

binding

blasting

blending

bonding

bolting

angling

blinding

boasting

bouncing

bending

bounding

acting

afresh

building

inkling

boxing

banding

sprinkling

asking

breasting

camping

coaxing

coasting

cresting

casting

dancing

costing

crackling

daunting

chanting

drafting

ending

faulting

fencing

finding

fixing

folding

founding

frosting

gilding

glancing

glinting

golding

golfing

grafting

grasping

grinding

grounding

heckling

helping

holding

hosting

hounding

landing

listing

malting

lamping

lasting

lending

lifting

lightning

melting

mincing

minding

molting

moulding

mounting

ousting

panting

pelting

pending

pimping

planting

posting

pounding

printing

quilting

rafting

resting

rifling

rounding

scalping

scolding

pouncing

roasting

romping

salting

scrimping

shafting

shelving

shifting

sibling

slanting

smelting

sounding

spending

squinting

stamping

standing

straddling

suffrage

tackling

tamping

taunting

testing

tilting

toasting

trifling

twisting

vaulting

wilding

vesting

wanting

whistling

whitling

wincing

winding

wrestling

depressed

drinking

abreast

banking

franking

fledgling

planking

nanking

shrinking

sinking

spanking

uprights

stinking

thinking

hamstring

awning

backing

bagging

batting

bedding

belling

bidding

biding

billing

biting

bleeping

blessing

blocking

blooming

booming

booting

boozing

brawling

brimming

brooding

bruting

burning

burping

calling

calming

caulking

chilling

chirping

churning

climbing

clocking

clogging

cocking

codding

colling

cooking

cooling

cracking

creeping

cribbing

crooning

crossing

curling

damning

dawning

dicing

digging

dilling

dining

diving

docking

dragging

dressing

drilling

driving

dueling

dwelling

earning

falling

fehling

fighting

filing

filling

fining

fitting

flagging

fleming

flitting

flogging

footing

fruiting

fuming

gadding

galling

gassing

getting

ginning

girding

giving

grooming

grouping

having

heading

hearing

hiding

hilling

hissing

hitting

hogging

hurling

hurting

icing

jerking

inning

jeering

jetting

jogging

leaping

keeping

kenning

kicking

killing

knitting

knocking

lagging

laughing

learning

legging

moving

plodding

pressing

priming

pruning

pudding

quilling

racking

lemming

mocking

ribbing

riding

rigging

rising

missing

musing

muting

nagging

nodding

offing

oozing

packing

netting

padding

panning

passing

pegging

petting

picking

pining

piling

pooling

licking

lighting

liking

lining

living

looking

looping

milling

logging

looming

losing

madding

matting

mining

nursing

rocking

roofing

ruling

sacking

sagging

schilling

schooling

scraping

serving

setting

shedding

shelling

shilling

shining

shirting

shocking

shooting

shredding

siding

sighting

signing

sitting

sizing

skilling

skimming

skirting

sledding

sleeping

sliding

slighting

slitting

slotting

smacking

smelling

sniffing

sobbing

spelling

sperling

spinning

spurling

stacking

stalling

sterling

sticking

stocking

stooping

striking

striving

suiting

sweating

sweeping

swelling

swimming

swooning

tacking

talking

tanning

telling

thrilling

ticking

tiding

tooling

tossing

tricking

trilling

trimming

tubing

tuning

turning

twining

viking

walking

walling

webbing

wedding

weeping

whacking

whirling

whiting

whooping

willing

winning

wording

working

wrecking

writing

yachting

yearling

yearning

yelling

foundling

groundling

shoestring

caprice

plaything

shipwreck

singing

raging

sheathing

paging

breathing

cypress

fabric

bathing

hanging

operas

stinging

aging

appears

beijing

staging

appraise

apprise

springing

teething

ringing

longing

banging

upright

uprise

clanging

wringing

brewing

refresh

blueing

bluing

evening

buying

lying

fainting

drying

basting

fielding

screwing

vying

pointing

wielding

cooing

painting

tasting

wasting

weakling

seedling

trying

yielding

chewing

crying

doing

dyeing

dying

flying

frying

sighing

stirring

prying

suing

tying

earthling

scuppers

shipwrights

sparrows

uppers

defrost

fabrics

leapfrog

suppers

aching

ailing

baiting

baking

beading

beaming

beating

blazing

bleeding

boiling

bracing

braiding

braving

breaking

breeding

briefing

broiling

caning

casing

ceiling

chafing

chasing

cleaning

coiling

craving

creaking

dealing

draining

easing

eating

eking

facing

fading

failing

feeding

feeling

feigning

flaming

fleeting

foiling

framing

freaking

freezing

gaming

glazing

grading

grating

grayling

grazing

greening

greeting

grieving

healing

heating

heaving

jailing

keeling

lading

leading

leaking

leaning

leasing

mailing

making

meaning

meeting

pacing

paving

peaking

phasing

phrasing

plating

pleading

pleasing

quaking

racing

railing

raising

raking

raving

reading

sailing

saving

scaling

scheming

screaming

screening

seating

seeling

seeming

seizing

shading

shaving

sheeting

slating

sneaking

sneezing

speaking

squeezing

stating

staving

stealing

straining

streaming

sweeting

tailing

taking

teaming

teeming

tracing

trading

trailing

training

veiling

voiding

wading

waiting

waking

waning

weaving

weeding

whaling

wheeling

sparsely

eyebrows

reprise

rubric

shipwright

weighing

seeing

swaying

saying

being

playing

fraying

laying

paying

peeing

praying

diffract

averse

buffers

choppers

coppers

covers

dippers

hoppers

hovers

kippers

lepers

loppers

lovers

pipers

lubbers

paupers

peppers

poppers

rappers

refers

rubbers

shippers

shoppers

skippers

suffers

tippers

toppers

vipers

whoppers

wipers

zippers

sparger

affairs

defrays

reveres

hebrews

obverse

repairs

divorced

chauffeurs

cyphers

evers

bevers

fibres

abhors

capers

coffers

coopers

divers

diverse

gophers

heifers

jobbers

keepers

levers

loafers

loopers

nevers

overs

robbers

ropers

offers

papers

rovers

severs

sobers

sprightly

supers

sweepers

tapers

vapors

webers

zephyrs

daybreak

divorce

labors

lavers

roofers

sabres

savers

savors

shavers

weavers

avers

beavers

favors

fevers

movers

quavers

reefers

tubers

wafers

waivers

sovereign

saviors

sovereigns

sparkles

defers

differs

givers

livers

reverse

rivers

shivers

sprocket

diverge

cobras

reversed

zebras

sparkle

3 syllable words

provoking

narrowing

engrossing

improving

uprisings

accusing

amusing

commuting

consuming

foreboding

imposing

railroading

typewriting

unwilling

unwitting

upsetting

agreeing

converging

alerting

appalling

appealing

asserting

assuming

ballooning

governing

ongoing

polluting

refreshing

outgoing

reducing

everything

undoing

obliging

traversing

following

unflinching

billowing

dumbfounding

oppresses

peppering

compounding

oppressive

astounding

attracting

complaining

completing

confounding

confusing

enclosing

adjoining

apprises

coloring

frustrating

suppresses

rapprochement

diverging

annoying

canoeing

covering

diapering

appraises

echoing

mellowing

shadowing

stuttering

suffering

winnowing

yellowing

abounding

according

abrasion

affecting

bloodletting

alarming

ascending

aspiring

bloodsucking

bundling

bumbling

comforting

commanding

complying

conceding

concerning

confiding

decreasing

defusing

degrading

departing

forwarding

lamenting

mumbling

observing

oppression

pronouncing

recording

rumbling

suppression

surprising

trumpeting

tumbling

typesetting

mothering

succeeding

connecting

conserving

unfailing

underling

unfeeling

abiding

adoring

aligning

alluring

amazing

annealing

aversion

beholding

blundering

blustering

bubbling

bungling

bustling

colouring

concurring

conflicting

conveying

crippling

debating

deserving

discerning

diverting

divining

doubling

engaging

ensuing

imprinting

juggling

lumbering

muscling

ordering

proceeding

repeating

reversing

seducing

tempering

thundering

undying

warehousing

whispering

impending

finishing

lettering

flattering

importing

dairying

glimmering

papering

pickering

increasing

oppressions

scattering

soldering

hairdressing

machining

hardworking

maturing

depressive

shimmering

shipbuilding

shoplifting

doddering

seagoing

distressing

handwriting

rejoicing

exhausting

smattering

installing

offering

ironing

engraving

varying

unyielding

suffragist

tormenting

unsparing

assuring

battering

unbending

bettering

besieging

churchgoing

bickering

beseeching

chattering

carousing

carrying

watering

abrasions

tapering

anything

buffeting

absorbing

convincing

wrongdoing

conforming

consulting

copying

abrasive

afflicting

constricting

emptying

enticing

equating

erecting

exceeding

exciting

bullfighting

erupting

reclining

refreshes

regarding

resisting

revolting

badgering

butchering

issuing

averages

aversions

backbiting

campaigning

layperson

beverages

measuring

cowering

blackmailing

weathering

withering

dressmaking

feathering

mistaking

gathering

good-looking

misgiving

misleading

invading

outpouring

oppressor

infighting

inserting

inviting

lactating

nerve-racking

networking

flowering

declining

disarming

dissolving

suppressor

sleepwalking

depression

despairing

dissenting

crocheting

glowering

lowering

souring

coppersmith

descending

subversion

towering

disguising

suffragists

groundbreaking

appraisals

carjacking

brainwashing

bushwhacking

expanding

transporting

challenging

depressant

contracting

nebraskan

scavenging

refractive

distracting

beguiling

believing

detailing

befitting

beginning

designing

galloping

delighting

besetting

blistering

highflying

opining

pondering

pilfering

laundering

lawmaking

plastering

presiding

surpassing

prevailing

surrounding

visiting

wandering

well-being

repurchase

rendering

dividing

diverges

emitting

retiring

reviving

landholding

entering

faltering

centering

relieving

factoring

backsliding

broadcasting

contacting

depressions

forecasting

misspelling

dissembling

enlisting

exacting

existing

expelling

expiring

imploring

inspiring

investing

perplexing

respecting

reflecting

bullying

dialing

flavoring

lingering

favoring

journeying

jockeying

arranging

arriving

coverage

laboring

damaging

motoring

appraisal

appraisers

conjuring

caprices

conquering

tinkering

subversive

murmuring

neighboring

pitying

powdering

surveying

toweling

polishing

ravishing

belonging

repressive

tailoring

fingering

depresses

oppressors

sojourning

soldiering

vanishing

admiring

dissecting

easterling

endearing

nebraskans

relapsing

repression

depressants

enchanting

scaffolding

suffragette

refreshment

exploring

eavesdropping

appraiser

heartbreaking

aversive

unthinking

leprechaun

leprosy

nourishing

reverses

wagering

layering

reprisals

capricorn

matchmaking

represent

cradling

cycling

fastening

freewheeling

lessening

leveling

middling

modeling

mottling

profiling

quarreling

sweetening

tabling

abducting

profiting

promising

raveling

accenting

opening

preceding

riveting

settling

sickening

stiffening

surviving

threatening

ticketing

whitening

arresting

harvesting

painstaking

repressions

baffling

battening

exulting

insulting

becoming

blossoming

correcting

deadening

enduring

excepting

bottling

cackling

channeling

deafening

drizzling

glistening

happening

lightening

listening

childbearing

leavening

locating

maddening

meddling

outlying

paneling

peddling

pervading

piddling

quickening

reasoning

reckoning

refresher

scribbling

seasoning

thickening

disgusting

sizzling

softening

vomiting

suffragettes

refreshments

maverick

leprechauns

deprecate

cushioning

represents

aforesaid

divorces

hyperspace

refractor

carpeting

caressing

dampening

leverage

bookkeeping

counseling

darkening

downsizing

dwindling

beverage

fondling

gambling

gardening

kidnapping

life-giving

average

hardening

parceling

pardoning

revolving

scrambling

persisting

languishing

gibberish

shortening

trembling

interesting

offsetting

oncoming

neutering

incoming

housewarming

marketing

outfitting

housekeeping

apricots

blanketing

deprecates

divorcee

fabricant

marshaling

mavericks

paperweight

reappears

refractors

supercharge

supersede

tinkling

twinkling

strengthening

crusading

forbidding

shortcoming

forgiving

apricot

forthcoming

copyrights

evergreen

overcoats

overgrown

reprisal

supersedes

diapers

apercu

outstanding

rubberize

landscaping

feverish

thanksgiving

overgrowth

everglades

evergreens

fabricates

hovercraft

euphoric

diaphragm

overcoat

copyright

overreach

african

rivieres

lubricate

copiers

ovaries

referees

reveries

robberies

vaporize

affricates

africans

overcharge

overcrowds

lubricant

overseas

oversees

overshoot

lubricants

overshot

affricate

overcooks

oversleep

sovereignty

overcrowd

oversea

oversee

sapphires

overact

overcook

oversell

oversight

oversize

overstay

overuse

overweight

abrogate

fabricate

overacts

overcast

overstock

overstate

overstates

reviewers

sobriquet

cooperage

everest

diversion

reversion

deforest

overcomes

reforest

reversals

divergent

diversions

diffraction

avarice

devours

reverser

bifurcate

overcome

reversal

reversers

riverside

overstep

behaviors

4 syllable words

approachable

disapproving

diagnosing

fireproofing

operating

separating

unremitting

waterproofing

unassuming

underlying

disparaging

coverages

encouraging

liberating

moderating

oceangoing

petitioning

unrelenting

depressingly

disappointing

dispiriting

penetrating

unbecoming

undertaking

underwriting

disappearing

unavailing

conditioning

appetizing

appreciate

inquiring

astonishing

awakening

never-ending

nonrecurring

overflowing

overruling

suffocating

enterprising

energizing

overarching

parachuting

integrating

intersecting

corresponding

realizing

pioneering

executing

advertising

appreciable

appreciates

captivating

denigrating

devastating

entertaining

everlasting

examining

interlocking

interviewing

unbelieving

underpinning

hyperactive

hypersonic

distributing

understanding

merchandising

approximate

disengaging

fluctuating

undulating

condescending

disconcerting

encompassing

implicating

mitigating

obviating

oscillating

vacillating

occupying

overpowering

overrating

overreaches

repurchases

persevering

fingerprinting

agonizing

annotating

bewildering

detonating

depreciate

delegating

dominating

domineering

irritating

hesitating

fascinating

laminating

distinguishing

agitating

barbecuing

activating

maximizing

palpitating

emphasizing

gratifying

circulating

depreciates

reentering

patronizing

aggravating

mountaineering

superstition

approximates

edifying

notifying

bifurcated

supersonic

speechifying

engineering

legislating

developing

complicating

overbearing

calculating

centralizing

superstitions

diversity

overhauling

supersonics

notwithstanding

registering

discouraging

abrogation

coexisting

enveloping

overlying

overwhelming

refractory

admonishing

overcharges

disabling

overcoming

overlapping

bicycling

refractories

lubricated

embarrassing

encircling

aphorism

fabrication

enlightening

refrigerant

inheriting

inhibiting

aphorisms

partitioning

fabricator

superoxide

babysitting

repercussion

fabrications

refrigerate

overeager

refrigerants

fabricated

fabricators

disheartening

behaviorist

lubrication

repercussions

behaviorists

lubricity

oversizes

overseer

overshadows

superstructures

overexpose

africanize

overstated

overseers

overshadow

superstructure

overexcite

oversupply

reversible

overexcites

aviaries

diversified

overstatements

diversify

bifurcation

overstatement

7 syllable words

Words that rhyme with the word approaching

Welcome to the Rhyme Finder! This rhyming dictionary allows users to explore rhymes for any given word. This includes rhymes based on syllables, near rhymes, and more.


How to use the rhyming dictionary

Enter your "starter" word in the FIND RHYMES input box, and click search. It's really that simple! We separate perfect rhymes (near the top) from the imperfect rhymes (toward the bottom). In your rhyming results, colors descend based on the best rhyme. Once the color changes, you will notice the results reset back into alphabetical order. Click on any of the results for the word's definition, part of speech, use in Scrabble, and more. Please note that many of our results are proper nound or slang. While we may not store definitions for all of these words, we can direct you to the Google results for that word.


Perfect Rhymes

Perfect rhymes are just what they sound like. No pun intended! Think of perfect rhymes as words which definitively rhyme. Words that most people would not question. Here are some examples:

  • Cat and Hat
  • Head and Red
  • Egg and Beg
  • Soap and Hope
  • True and Blue

Imperfect Rhymes

Near rhymes, otherwise known as imperfect rhymes, are words that sound the same but are not perfect rhymes. Having trouble deciding if a word is a perfect or imperfect rhyme? Here are some examples:

  • Cat and Bad
  • Head and Mud
  • Egg and Peck
  • Soap and Chap
  • True and Cure

Using Rhymes

Rhymes are most useful in creating lyrics, but they can also be used as a tool to memorize. It is a powerful mnemonic device. This is why song lyrics can be so easy to remember! It's also why rhymes are a great study tool for memorizing! Use this tool to help write poetry, win rhyme games, write a rap song, create lyrics, and expand your vocabulary! Rhyming is very important in music because it creates a rhythm that further creates meaning, emotion, and feeling. It also creates an echo in the lyrics. With children, rhyming is a very important tool. Rhyming teaches children how language works, helps them understand the rhythm of language, and learn how to make predictions. In other words, rhymes teach children phrases to anticipate and rhymes enhance their memory. Within all contexts, rhyming is helpful in expanding your imagination no matter if you’re a child or an adult.

When creating lyrics, there are five types of rhymes to choose from.

  • End rhymes: rhyming of the final word of a line
  • Internal rhymes: rhyming of two words within the same line
  • Slant rhymes: near rhymes
  • Identical rhymes: use the same word at the end of each line
  • Eye rhymes: look like they rhyme but sound different

Different Types of Rhymes
  • Mascline rhymes: have a stressed syllable
  • Feminine rhymes: have a stressless syllable.

Ready for a challenge? Try to come up with rhymes for these surprising words that just aren’t very rhymy. Check them with our dictionary! Examples of tough rhymes:

  • Month
  • Silver
  • Bulb
  • Wolf
  • Husband
  • Walrus
  • Orange

Rhyming Dictionary


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