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

clearing

earring

gearing

shearing

steering

veering

piercing

airing

bearing

bidding

billing

blaring

brimming

chilling

chipping

clipping

cribbing

curing

daring

derring

digging

dilling

dipping

drilling

dripping

during

erring

filling

fitting

flaring

flitting

ginning

giving

glaring

hearing

herring

hilling

hissing

hitting

inning

jeering

kicking

killing

knitting

licking

living

milling

missing

mooring

nipping

pairing

paring

picking

quilling

ribbing

rigging

schilling

shilling

shipping

sitting

skilling

skimming

slitting

sniffing

sparing

spinning

sticking

stripping

swearing

swimming

thrilling

ticking

tipping

tricking

trilling

trimming

tripping

wearing

whipping

willing

winning

bitching

dishing

fishing

pitching

ringing

singing

springing

stinging

stitching

switching

wishing

witching

wringing

building

fixing

gilding

glinting

kipling

lifting

listing

mincing

pimping

printing

quilting

scrimping

shifting

sibling

squinting

stripling

tilting

twisting

whistling

whitling

wincing

barring

beading

beaming

beating

bedding

belling

bleeding

bleeping

blessing

boring

breeding

briefing

bucking

budding

butting

ceiling

cleaning

clucking

coming

cooking

creaking

creeping

culling

cunning

cutting

dealing

dressing

drugging

drumming

dubbing

ducking

dwelling

easing

eating

eking

feeding

feeling

fehling

firing

fleeting

fleming

flooding

flooring

footing

freaking

freezing

fucking

getting

greening

greeting

grieving

gunning

heading

healing

heating

heaving

hugging

humming

jarring

jetting

jutting

keeling

keeping

kenning

leading

leaking

leaning

leaping

leasing

legging

lemming

looking

loring

loving

meaning

meeting

mugging

netting

nutting

peaking

pegging

petting

pleading

pleasing

plugging

plumbing

pressing

pudding

puffing

putting

reading

roaring

rubbing

running

scarring

scheming

screaming

screening

seating

seeling

seeming

seizing

setting

shedding

sheeting

shelling

shoring

shredding

sledding

sleeping

smelling

sneaking

sneezing

snoring

soaring

speaking

spelling

squeezing

stealing

streaming

strutting

stuffing

stunning

sucking

sweating

sweeping

sweeting

swelling

teaming

teeming

telling

trucking

weaving

webbing

wedding

weeding

weeping

wheeling

wiring

wrecking

yelling

Near RhymesHere is a list of the words that nearly rhyme with the word clearing.
2 syllable words

drinking

pinching

shrinking

sinking

stinking

thinking

being

peeing

seeing

stirring

bleaching

blushing

breathing

breeching

brushing

clearance

crushing

edging

etching

fetching

flushing

gushing

judging

nothing

preaching

pushing

sheathing

stretching

teaching

teething

touching

kindling

florin

fluorine

arming

belting

bending

buckling

charming

duckling

ending

evening

harping

helping

heckling

hoarding

horning

jumping

lending

marking

trusting

seedling

thrusting

testing

thumping

sharking

smelting

suckling

snarling

vesting

warling

warming

warning

inkling

boarding

bunting

carling

carping

carving

cresting

darling

fencing

cuddling

blending

coursing

farming

coupling

breasting

sprinkling

fielding

forcing

funding

hunting

lumping

melting

pumping

sparling

storming

warping

weakling

resting

shuffling

shunting

spending

wielding

mourning

parking

parting

shelving

sporting

starling

starting

wrestling

forming

morning

morphing

pelting

pending

yielding

aching

ailing

awning

backing

bagging

baiting

baking

batting

biding

biting

blazing

blocking

blooming

boating

boiling

bolling

boning

booming

booting

boozing

bowling

bracing

braiding

braving

brawling

breaking

broiling

broking

brooding

browning

browsing

bruting

burning

burping

calling

calming

caning

casing

caulking

chafing

chasing

chirping

choking

chopping

churning

climbing

cloaking

clocking

clogging

closing

clouding

clowning

coating

cocking

codding

coiling

colling

combing

cooling

coping

cracking

craving

crooning

crossing

curling

damning

dawning

dicing

dining

diving

docking

doting

doubting

dragging

draining

driving

dropping

dueling

earning

facing

fading

failing

falling

feigning

fighting

filing

fining

flagging

flaming

floating

flogging

foaming

foiling

framing

fruiting

fuming

gadding

galling

gaming

gassing

girding

glazing

gloaming

grading

grating

grayling

grazing

grooming

grouping

grouting

having

hiding

hogging

holing

homing

hopping

housing

hurling

hurting

icing

jailing

jerking

jogging

joking

knocking

lading

lagging

lapping

laughing

learning

lighting

liking

lining

loading

loaning

logging

looming

looping

lopping

losing

madding

mailing

making

mapping

matting

mining

mocking

moving

musing

muting

nagging

napping

nodding

nosing

nursing

offing

oozing

outing

pacing

packing

padding

panning

passing

paving

phasing

phrasing

piling

pining

piping

plating

plodding

poking

poling

polling

pooling

popping

pouting

priming

prowling

pruning

quaking

racing

racking

railing

raising

raking

raving

riding

rising

rocking

rolling

roofing

rousing

roving

ruling

sacking

sagging

sailing

saving

scaling

schooling

scraping

serving

shading

shaving

shining

shirting

shocking

shooting

shrouding

siding

sighting

signing

sizing

skirting

slapping

slating

sliding

slighting

sloping

slotting

smacking

smoking

snapping

soaking

sobbing

sopping

sperling

spurling

stacking

stalling

stating

staving

sterling

stocking

stooping

stopping

stowing

straining

strapping

striking

striving

stroking

suiting

swooning

tacking

tailing

taking

talking

tanning

tiding

tooling

topping

tossing

tracing

trading

trailing

training

tubing

tuning

turning

twining

veiling

viking

voiding

voting

wading

waiting

waking

walking

walling

waning

wapping

whacking

whaling

whirling

whiting

whooping

whopping

wording

working

writing

yachting

yearling

yearning

arching

bulging

earthling

farthing

fledgling

forging

lunching

marching

scorching

wellspring

something

aging

banging

bathing

beijing

birthing

blowing

blueing

bluing

bowing

brewing

buying

catching

chewing

clanging

clarence

clothing

coaching

cooing

couching

crashing

crowing

crying

dashing

doing

drawing

drying

dumpling

dyeing

dying

flashing

flowing

flying

fraying

frying

glowing

going

growing

hanging

hatching

knowing

lashing

latching

lawing

laying

loathing

lodging

longing

lowing

lying

matching

merging

mowing

nestling

owing

paging

patching

paying

playing

plaything

praying

prying

purging

raging

saying

scratching

screwing

searching

sewing

shoestring

showing

sighing

slouching

smoothing

soothing

sparkling

staging

suing

swaying

tempting

thrashing

throwing

tithing

trying

tying

vying

washing

weighing

westling

acting

asking

banding

basting

binding

blasting

blinding

boasting

bolting

bonding

bouncing

bounding

boxing

camping

casting

chanting

coasting

coaxing

costing

crackling

dancing

daunting

drafting

fainting

faulting

folding

glancing

grappling

grasping

grinding

holding

lamping

lasting

lightning

malting

molting

chlorine

finding

founding

frosting

golding

golfing

grafting

grounding

hosting

hounding

landing

minding

moulding

mounting

ousting

painting

panting

planting

pointing

posting

pouncing

pounding

rafting

rifling

roasting

romping

rounding

salting

sapling

scalping

scolding

shafting

slanting

sounding

stamping

standing

straddling

tackling

tamping

tasting

taunting

toasting

trifling

floren

vaulting

wanting

wasting

wilding

winding

hamstring

offspring

banking

nanking

branching

franking

launching

planking

spanking

foundling

groundling

handling

rambling

florence

angling

alarmed

alarms

bullhorn

alarm

ballroom

schoolroom

bullhorns

ballrooms

3 syllable words

bettering

billowing

coloring

covering

dairying

lettering

narrowing

peppering

pitying

stuttering

suffering

varying

winnowing

cowering

flowering

layering

lowering

fingering

glowering

tinkering

souring

towering

lingering

badgering

butchering

feathering

gathering

issuing

measuring

mothering

nourishing

wagering

weathering

decreasing

degrading

departing

despairing

disarming

erecting

inserting

regarding

clarion

governing

believing

delighting

colouring

glistening

designing

detailing

alluring

besetting

listening

middling

lumbering

repeating

adoring

agreeing

alerting

asserting

becoming

befitting

beginning

beguiling

blundering

blustering

centering

concurring

crippling

dividing

drizzling

emitting

entering

flaringly

forbidding

forgiving

piddling

presiding

prevailing

quickening

reasoning

relieving

rendering

reviving

riveting

scribbling

seasoning

seducing

ticketing

whitening

traversing

sweetening

sizzling

tempering

thickening

thundering

sickening

stiffening

visiting

refreshing

annoying

battering

buffeting

bullying

canoeing

caressing

carrying

chattering

dialing

diapering

doddering

echoing

favoring

flattering

flavoring

ironing

laboring

mellowing

motoring

murmuring

neighboring

conjuring

neutering

offering

scattering

smattering

finishing

seagoing

maturing

ravishing

rejoicing

sojourning

soldiering

papering

powdering

soldering

assuring

belonging

besieging

tailoring

damaging

tapering

toweling

vanishing

watering

yellowing

polishing

distressing

engraving

engrossing

expiring

imploring

importing

improving

increasing

inspiring

according

alarming

approving

aspiring

comforting

concerning

conserving

crocheting

declining

defusing

descending

disguising

dissenting

dissolving

dwindling

easterling

endearing

equating

erupting

exceeding

exciting

imposing

incoming

infighting

invading

inviting

kidnapping

life-giving

misgiving

misleading

mistaking

networking

observing

outfitting

patrolling

persisting

reclining

recording

relapsing

resisting

underling

unwilling

unwitting

uprising

exploring

abiding

twinkling

aligning

amazing

annealing

warehousing

appalling

appealing

arresting

baffling

battening

converging

assuming

blossoming

bottling

bubbling

everything

ballooning

bustling

approaching

cackling

channeling

conveying

correcting

cradling

cycling

deadening

deafening

debating

diverting

divining

doubling

factoring

faltering

fastening

galloping

happening

beholding

ensuing

freewheeling

juggling

distracting

leavening

lessening

leveling

lightening

laundering

maddening

tinkling

meddling

modeling

imprinting

mottling

muscling

opening

opposing

ordering

paneling

peddling

plastering

polluting

pondering

preceding

proceeding

profiting

promising

provoking

quarreling

raveling

reckoning

reducing

settling

softening

tabling

threatening

undoing

undying

vomiting

wandering

interesting

well-being

absorbing

afflicting

attracting

childbearing

conforming

convincing

disgusting

dissembling

enduring

enlisting

exacting

exhausting

existing

expelling

exulting

frustrating

hairdressing

investing

impending

installing

insulting

misspelling

reflecting

respecting

shipbuilding

shoplifting

unsparing

adjoining

anything

beseeching

churchgoing

clearances

conquering

cushioning

machining

arriving

carousing

copying

following

jockeying

journeying

shadowing

surveying

abounding

accusing

admiring

affecting

amusing

ascending

bloodletting

bloodsucking

bookkeeping

bullfighting

bumbling

bundling

carpeting

commanding

commuting

complying

composing

conceding

confiding

connecting

consoling

consuming

counseling

dampening

darkening

dissecting

dressmaking

emptying

enticing

fondling

foreboding

forwarding

gambling

gardening

good-looking

hardening

housekeeping

lamenting

marketing

mumbling

nerve-racking

offsetting

oncoming

outpouring

parceling

pardoning

pronouncing

railroading

revolting

revolving

rumbling

scaffolding

scrambling

shortening

sleepwalking

succeeding

surprising

trembling

trumpeting

tumbling

typesetting

typewriting

unfailing

unfeeling

upsetting

languishing

eavesdropping

clarinet

conflicting

expanding

blanketing

bungling

bushwhacking

carjacking

challenging

engaging

marshaling

matchmaking

obliging

scavenging

highflying

locating

lawmaking

surviving

ongoing

surrounding

crusading

opining

outgoing

outlying

pervading

profiling

surpassing

thanksgiving

unflinching

abducting

accenting

astounding

complaining

compounding

confounding

confusing

consulting

dumbfounding

enclosing

excepting

forecasting

handwriting

completing

hardworking

harvesting

perplexing

shortcoming

unbending

strengthening

tormenting

unyielding

constricting

enchanting

arranging

clarendon

diverging

forthcoming

wrongdoing

contracting

groundbreaking

heartbreaking

housewarming

campaigning

backbiting

lactating

unthinking

blackmailing

downsizing

transporting

brainwashing

chlorinate

landholding

tolerance

tolerant

backsliding

broadcasting

contacting

painstaking

florentine

alarmists

tolerants

landscaping

aileron

outstanding

alarmist

ailerons

4 syllable words

liberating

pioneering

reentering

bewildering

disappearing

domineering

inquiring

irritating

nonrecurring

persevering

valerian

realizing

registering

separating

discouraging

interviewing

interlocking

embarrassing

denigrating

disapproving

dispiriting

mountaineering

speechifying

overbearing

bicycling

never-ending

underlying

engineering

appetizing

babysitting

disparaging

inheriting

developing

disabling

mitigating

delirium

parachuting

intersecting

integrating

disconcerting

energizing

encouraging

petitioning

disheartening

edifying

gratifying

moderating

notifying

operating

overlying

barbecuing

captivating

coexisting

disappointing

entertaining

enveloping

everlasting

encircling

examining

penetrating

unbecoming

underpinning

undertaking

underwriting

unremitting

distributing

fingerprinting

admonishing

inhibiting

legislating

astonishing

conditioning

disengaging

partitioning

delegating

hesitating

obviating

occupying

suffocating

unassuming

unavailing

agonizing

awakening

detonating

fascinating

fireproofing

laminating

oscillating

overflowing

vacillating

annotating

diagnosing

dominating

overcoming

overlapping

overpowering

overrating

overruling

centralizing

condescending

enterprising

implicating

unrelenting

agitating

oceangoing

overarching

tellurium

overhauling

activating

advertising

aggravating

circulating

devastating

emphasizing

enlightening

maximizing

overwhelming

palpitating

patronizing

unbelieving

understanding

waterproofing

ballerina

fluctuating

merchandising

undulating

calculating

complicating

executing

philharmonic

distinguishing

encompassing

corresponding

notwithstanding

ballerinas

tolerances

6 syllable words

Words that rhyme with the word clearing

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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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