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

pinching

bitching

dishing

fifteen

fishing

pitching

stitching

switching

wishing

witching

tempting

kindling

belting

breasting

building

bunting

cresting

drafting

fixing

gilding

grafting

hunting

kipling

melting

mincing

pelting

piercing

pimping

rafting

resting

scrimping

shafting

shuffling

shunting

sibling

smelting

stripling

testing

thrusting

trusting

whistling

whitling

wincing

vesting

inkling

sprinkling

beating

bidding

billing

briefing

brimming

butting

chilling

chipping

clearing

clipping

cribbing

cutting

digging

dipping

drilling

dripping

earring

eating

dilling

filling

fleeting

getting

greeting

footing

gearing

ginning

giving

heating

hilling

hissing

inning

jetting

jutting

kicking

killing

licking

living

meeting

milling

missing

netting

nipping

nutting

petting

picking

puffing

putting

quilling

ribbing

rigging

schilling

seating

setting

shearing

sheeting

shilling

shipping

skilling

skimming

spinning

steering

sticking

stripping

strutting

stuffing

sweating

sweeting

swimming

thrilling

ticking

tipping

tricking

trilling

trimming

tripping

veering

whipping

willing

winning

bulging

diphthong

drinking

fifteens

fledgling

lunching

shrinking

sinking

something

stinking

thinking

blushing

brushing

chieftain

crushing

edging

etching

fetching

flushing

gushing

judging

nothing

pushing

ringing

singing

springing

stinging

stretching

touching

wringing

dumpling

fifteenth

westling

nestling

acting

basting

bending

blasting

blending

boasting

bolting

buckling

casting

chanting

coasting

costing

coupling

cuddling

daunting

duckling

ending

evening

fainting

faulting

fencing

fielding

frosting

funding

heckling

helping

hosting

jumping

lasting

lending

lumping

malting

molting

mounting

ousting

painting

panting

parting

pending

planting

pointing

posting

pumping

rifling

roasting

salting

seedling

shelving

slanting

spending

sporting

starting

suckling

tasting

taunting

thumping

toasting

trifling

vaulting

wanting

wasting

weakling

wielding

wrestling

yielding

bearing

belling

offspring

beading

beaming

batting

bedding

hamstring

airing

baiting

biting

blaring

bleeding

blessing

bleeping

boating

bucking

booting

breeding

bruting

budding

ceiling

chafing

cleaning

clucking

coating

coming

cooking

creeping

culling

cunning

curing

daring

dealing

derring

creaking

doting

doubting

dressing

drugging

drumming

dubbing

ducking

during

dwelling

eking

erring

feeding

feeling

fehling

flaring

fleming

floating

easing

fighting

flooding

freaking

freezing

fruiting

glaring

grating

greening

fucking

grieving

grouting

wellspring

gunning

heading

healing

hearing

hugging

hurting

jeering

heaving

humming

herring

keeling

keeping

leaping

leasing

leading

leaking

leaning

mooring

chieftains

looking

laughing

lemming

kenning

loving

lighting

matting

meaning

legging

mugging

outing

offing

muting

pairing

paring

peaking

pegging

plating

pleading

pleasing

plugging

plumbing

pouting

pressing

pudding

reading

roofing

rubbing

running

scheming

screaming

screening

seeling

seeming

seizing

shedding

shelling

shirting

shooting

shredding

sighting

skirting

slating

sledding

sleeping

slighting

slotting

smelling

sneaking

sneezing

sparing

speaking

spelling

squeezing

stating

stealing

streaming

stunning

sucking

suiting

swearing

sweeping

swelling

teaming

teeming

telling

trucking

voting

waiting

wearing

weaving

webbing

wedding

weeding

weeping

wheeling

whiting

wrecking

writing

yachting

yelling

foundling

groundling

handling

rambling

shoestring

sparkling

breathing

breeching

birthing

bleaching

loathing

plaything

teething

sheathing

teaching

preaching

peeing

being

angling

seeing

boxing

coaxing

crackling

darling

binding

blinding

bonding

charming

asking

bouncing

carling

arming

banding

boarding

camping

carping

coursing

bounding

carving

dancing

farming

finding

folding

founding

golding

golfing

grappling

grasping

grinding

grounding

horning

lamping

landing

lightning

marking

minding

pouncing

pounding

sapling

scalping

sharking

sparling

standing

storming

tackling

tamping

warping

wilding

winding

forcing

forming

glancing

harping

hoarding

holding

hounding

morning

morphing

moulding

mourning

parking

romping

rounding

scolding

snarling

sounding

stamping

starling

straddling

warling

warming

warning

franking

planking

spanking

banking

earthling

nanking

aching

ailing

awning

backing

bagging

baking

barring

biding

blooming

blazing

blocking

boiling

bolling

boning

booming

boozing

boring

bowling

bracing

braiding

braving

brawling

breaking

broiling

broking

brooding

browning

browsing

burning

burping

calling

calming

caning

chasing

climbing

clogging

casing

caulking

chirping

choking

chopping

churning

cloaking

clocking

closing

clouding

clowning

cocking

codding

coiling

colling

combing

cooling

coping

cracking

craving

crooning

crossing

curling

damning

dawning

dicing

dining

diving

docking

dragging

draining

driving

dropping

dueling

earning

facing

fading

failing

falling

feigning

filing

fining

firing

flagging

flaming

flogging

flooring

foaming

foiling

framing

fuming

gadding

galling

gaming

gassing

girding

glazing

gloaming

grading

grayling

grazing

grooming

grouping

having

hiding

hogging

holing

homing

hopping

housing

hurling

icing

jailing

jarring

jerking

jogging

joking

knocking

lading

lagging

lapping

learning

liking

lining

loading

loaning

logging

looming

looping

lopping

loring

losing

madding

mailing

making

mapping

mining

mocking

moving

musing

nagging

napping

nodding

nosing

nursing

oozing

pacing

packing

padding

panning

passing

paving

phasing

phrasing

piling

pining

piping

plodding

poking

poling

polling

pooling

popping

priming

prowling

pruning

quaking

racing

racking

railing

raising

raking

raving

riding

rising

roaring

rocking

rolling

rousing

roving

signing

sizing

slapping

sliding

sloping

smacking

smoking

snapping

snoring

soaking

soaring

sobbing

sopping

sperling

spurling

stocking

stooping

stopping

straining

swooning

stowing

tacking

strapping

tailing

taking

talking

tanning

topping

tracing

trading

tubing

veiling

viking

voiding

wading

walking

walling

waning

whacking

whaling

wapping

whirling

ruling

sacking

sagging

sailing

saving

scaling

scarring

schooling

scraping

serving

shading

shaving

shining

shocking

shoring

shrouding

siding

stacking

stalling

staving

sterling

striking

striving

stroking

tiding

tooling

trailing

training

tuning

turning

twining

tossing

waking

wording

working

whooping

whopping

yearling

wiring

yearning

beijing

lodging

banging

bathing

aging

caftan

captain

catching

clanging

clothing

coaching

couching

crashing

dashing

flashing

hanging

hatching

lashing

latching

longing

matching

merging

neptune

obtain

paging

patching

purging

raging

scratching

searching

thrashing

tithing

slouching

smoothing

soothing

washing

uptown

staging

blowing

blueing

bluing

bowing

brewing

buying

chewing

cooing

crowing

crying

doing

drying

dyeing

dying

flying

drawing

flowing

fraying

frying

glowing

going

growing

knowing

lawing

laying

lowing

lying

mowing

owing

paying

playing

sighing

praying

prying

saying

screwing

sewing

showing

stirring

suing

swaying

throwing

trying

tying

vying

weighing

left-hand

arching

branching

caftans

captains

farthing

forging

launching

marching

obtains

often

scorching

soften

lifetime

softens

lifetimes

sputum

caption

option

captions

options

3 syllable words

refreshing

anything

besieging

imprinting

exulting

insulting

shipbuilding

disgusting

investing

bloodletting

bullfighting

comforting

connecting

decreasing

defusing

departing

descending

withering

despairing

dwindling

equating

exceeding

exciting

incoming

inserting

inviting

lamenting

life-giving

misleading

offsetting

trumpeting

unfeeling

upsetting

issuing

unwilling

alerting

alluring

annealing

appealing

asserting

baffling

beguiling

blistering

bubbling

bustling

deadening

debating

deserving

designing

discerning

dividing

doubling

forbidding

forgiving

freewheeling

juggling

leavening

lessening

leveling

meddling

muscling

peddling

pilfering

polluting

preceding

presiding

prevailing

proceeding

reckoning

reversing

reviving

seducing

softening

vomiting

whispering

interesting

everything

tinkling

twinkling

bickering

billowing

buffeting

bullying

dairying

glimmering

pickering

pitying

shimmering

suffering

varying

winnowing

completing

consulting

convincing

dissembling

distressing

exacting

excepting

exhausting

impending

lingering

expelling

importing

increasing

installing

belonging

tinkering

unflinching

beseeching

damaging

dividend

machining

misspelling

shoplifting

vanishing

polishing

rejoicing

fingering

ravishing

ascending

feathering

bumbling

weathering

carpeting

declining

degrading

measuring

bundling

disarming

erupting

invading

mistaking

mumbling

rumbling

scaffolding

trembling

tumbling

bookkeeping

disguising

good-looking

bloodsucking

confiding

dissolving

endearing

imposing

kidnapping

left-winger

commuting

conceding

marketing

reclining

regarding

succeeding

enchanting

persisting

relapsing

revolting

typesetting

unfailing

nourishing

butchering

mothering

abiding

adoring

agreeing

aligning

amazing

appalling

arresting

assuming

ballooning

beholding

blanketing

blundering

blustering

bungling

centering

colouring

concurring

conveying

correcting

detailing

distracting

diverting

divining

ensuing

entering

governing

highflying

locating

lumbering

opposing

profiling

provoking

reducing

rendering

retiring

tempering

thundering

traversing

undoing

undying

warehousing

well-being

hairdressing

mellowing

offering

unyielding

maturing

narrowing

frustrating

yellowing

unbending

seagoing

stuttering

improving

respecting

strengthening

journeying

jockeying

unsparing

inspiring

imploring

peppering

lettering

left-wingers

enduring

attracting

coloring

conforming

echoing

carrying

adjoining

assuring

engraving

engrossing

enlisting

annoying

bettering

canoeing

copying

covering

expiring

confounding

cushioning

dumbfounding

confusing

dressmaking

approving

emptying

pronouncing

aspiring

backbiting

concerning

consoling

lactating

uprising

forthcoming

underling

conserving

consuming

typewriting

easterling

commanding

dissecting

revolving

abounding

according

observing

recording

housekeeping

accusing

alarming

amusing

complying

composing

enticing

sleepwalking

conflicting

expanding

exploring

languishing

ongoing

opining

ordering

surpassing

surrounding

surviving

approaching

crusading

devotion

pondering

sweetening

seasoning

bushwhacking

pervading

plastering

threatening

challenging

factoring

faltering

converging

dividends

engaging

marshaling

matchmaking

scavenging

laundering

obliging

lawmaking

reasoning

settling

wandering

thanksgiving

abducting

absorbing

accenting

broadcasting

forecasting

churchgoing

compounding

painstaking

conquering

contacting

tormenting

evidence

handwriting

evident

wrongdoing

astounding

complaining

harvesting

sojourning

enclosing

caressing

carousing

chattering

papering

powdering

smattering

soldering

scattering

shadowing

constricting

arriving

battering

dialing

diapering

doddering

favoring

flattering

flavoring

following

ironing

laboring

motoring

murmuring

neighboring

neutering

surveying

tailoring

tapering

toweling

watering

campaigning

admiring

blackmailing

surprising

downsizing

nerve-racking

foreboding

forwarding

housewarming

networking

patrolling

railroading

contracting

eavesdropping

left-handed

wagering

badgering

gathering

nevadan

transporting

crocheting

unthinking

abatement

carjacking

debutante

landholding

lowering

battening

blossoming

bottling

maddening

mottling

opening

channeling

modeling

tabling

cowering

flowering

glowering

layering

towering

cackling

souring

cradling

cycling

fastening

galloping

happening

lightening

outgoing

outlying

paneling

promising

quarreling

raveling

whitening

backsliding

hardworking

perplexing

soldiering

conjuring

abatements

debutantes

avoidance

nevadans

counseling

dampening

darkening

fondling

gambling

gardening

groundbreaking

hardening

heartbreaking

landscaping

oncoming

outpouring

parceling

pardoning

scrambling

shortening

childbearing

shortcoming

abdomen

arranging

diverging

optimists

september

outstanding

softener

brainwashing

optimist

optimize

optimum

optimal

ovation

optional

ovations

4 syllable words

dispiriting

unremitting

coexisting

irritating

suffocating

babysitting

bewildering

disappearing

mitigating

inhibiting

registering

liberating

reentering

pioneering

implicating

disappointing

examining

epitome

disabling

hesitating

domineering

disengaging

distributing

disparaging

inheriting

appetizing

delegating

developing

detonating

persevering

disconcerting

discouraging

encouraging

fingerprinting

integrating

intersecting

parachuting

realizing

separating

unrelenting

disheartening

underpinning

unbecoming

speechifying

penetrating

captivating

denigrating

devastating

enveloping

emphasizing

embarrassing

epitomize

disapproving

astonishing

fluctuating

undulating

conditioning

engineering

legislating

annotating

awakening

dominating

fascinating

never-ending

nonrecurring

obviating

laminating

bicycling

unassuming

inquiring

oscillating

unavailing

vacillating

agitating

executing

energizing

moderating

operating

edifying

leviathan

notifying

gratifying

activating

aggravating

circulating

palpitating

barbecuing

encircling

enlightening

everlasting

unbelieving

undertaking

underwriting

interlocking

interviewing

diagnosing

overflowing

overrating

admonishing

agonizing

underlying

calculating

centralizing

encompassing

complicating

condescending

oceangoing

notwithstanding

advertising

overlying

entertaining

maximizing

patronizing

understanding

merchandising

obedience

obedient

enterprising

occupying

devotional

corresponding

overlapping

distinguishing

overpowering

overruling

evidences

optimism

overhauling

petitioning

mountaineering

overwhelming

neptunium

optimistic

partitioning

fireproofing

overbearing

overcoming

evidently

waterproofing

abdominal

epidemics

obtainable

optometry

optometrists

overarching

lobotomy

aviation

deviation

optometrist

epidemic

deviations

7 syllable words
8 syllable words

Words that rhyme with the word befitting

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

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