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

browning

clowning

awning

boning

browsing

clouding

crooning

cunning

dawning

bouncing

dining

doubting

loaning

mining

outing

panning

pining

pouting

prowling

pruning

rousing

running

tanning

tuning

twining

bounding

founding

grounding

fining

grouting

gunning

hounding

pounding

housing

shining

mounting

shrouding

stunning

pouncing

rounding

lining

signing

swooning

sounding

mowing

banging

clanging

couching

hanging

longing

slouching

foundling

groundling

banding

binding

blinding

bonding

bunting

chanting

dancing

daunting

finding

funding

glancing

grinding

horning

hunting

landing

lightning

minding

morning

mourning

ousting

panting

planting

shunting

slanting

standing

taunting

wanting

warning

winding

backing

bagging

barring

batting

biding

biting

blocking

blooming

boating

bolling

booming

booting

boozing

boring

bowling

brawling

broking

brooding

bruting

bucking

budding

burning

butting

calling

calming

caning

caulking

choking

chopping

churning

cleaning

climbing

cloaking

clocking

clogging

closing

clucking

coating

cocking

codding

colling

combing

coming

cooling

coping

cracking

crossing

culling

cutting

damning

dicing

diving

docking

doting

dragging

draining

driving

dropping

drugging

drumming

dubbing

ducking

dueling

earning

falling

feigning

fighting

filing

firing

flagging

floating

flogging

flooding

flooring

foaming

fruiting

fucking

fuming

gadding

galling

gassing

ginning

gloaming

greening

grooming

grouping

having

hiding

hogging

holing

homing

hopping

hugging

humming

icing

inning

jarring

jogging

joking

jutting

kenning

knocking

lagging

lapping

laughing

leaning

learning

lighting

liking

loading

logging

looming

looping

lopping

loring

losing

loving

madding

mapping

matting

meaning

mocking

moving

mugging

musing

muting

nagging

napping

nodding

nosing

nutting

offing

oozing

packing

padding

passing

piling

piping

plodding

plugging

plumbing

poking

poling

polling

pooling

popping

priming

puffing

putting

racking

riding

rising

roaring

rocking

rolling

roofing

roving

rubbing

ruling

sacking

sagging

scarring

schooling

screening

shocking

shooting

shoring

siding

sighting

sizing

slapping

sliding

slighting

sloping

slotting

smacking

smoking

snapping

snoring

soaking

soaring

sobbing

sopping

spinning

stacking

stalling

stocking

stooping

stopping

stowing

straining

strapping

striking

striving

stroking

strutting

stuffing

sucking

suiting

tacking

talking

tiding

tooling

topping

tossing

training

trucking

tubing

turning

viking

voting

walking

walling

waning

wapping

whacking

whiting

whooping

whopping

winning

wiring

writing

yachting

yearning

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

banking

branching

franking

launching

lunching

nanking

planking

spanking

blowing

blueing

bluing

bowing

brewing

buying

chewing

cooing

crowing

crying

doing

drawing

drying

dyeing

dying

flowing

flying

frying

glowing

going

growing

knowing

lawing

lowing

lying

owing

prying

screwing

sewing

showing

sighing

suing

throwing

trying

tying

vying

blushing

brushing

catching

clothing

coaching

crashing

crushing

dashing

flashing

flushing

gushing

hatching

judging

lashing

latching

loathing

lodging

matching

nothing

patching

ringing

scratching

singing

smoothing

soothing

springing

stinging

thrashing

tithing

touching

washing

wringing

handling

asking

bending

acting

arming

blasting

blending

boarding

boasting

boxing

buckling

bolting

camping

carling

carping

carving

casting

charming

coasting

coaxing

costing

coupling

coursing

crackling

cuddling

darling

drafting

duckling

ending

evening

fainting

farming

faulting

folding

forming

glinting

fencing

forcing

frosting

golding

golfing

grasping

grafting

grappling

harping

hoarding

holding

hosting

lamping

lasting

lumping

morphing

jumping

lending

malting

marking

mincing

molting

moulding

painting

rifling

romping

salting

sapling

angling

roasting

rafting

pumping

scalping

scolding

sharking

snarling

shafting

shuffling

sparling

stamping

squinting

starling

starting

storming

straddling

tamping

thrusting

thumping

toasting

warping

wilding

wincing

suckling

tackling

parting

pending

parking

pointing

posting

printing

spending

sporting

trifling

warling

trusting

vaulting

warming

aching

ailing

airing

baiting

baking

beading

beaming

bearing

beating

bedding

belling

bidding

billing

blaring

blazing

bleeding

bleeping

blessing

boiling

bracing

braiding

braving

breaking

breeding

briefing

brimming

broiling

burping

casing

ceiling

chafing

chasing

chilling

chipping

chirping

clearing

clipping

coiling

cooking

craving

creaking

creeping

cribbing

curing

curling

daring

dealing

derring

digging

dilling

dipping

dressing

drilling

dripping

during

dwelling

earring

easing

eating

eking

erring

facing

fading

failing

feeding

feeling

fehling

filling

fitting

flaming

flaring

fleeting

fleming

flitting

foiling

footing

framing

freaking

freezing

gaming

gearing

getting

girding

giving

glaring

glazing

grading

grating

grayling

grazing

greeting

grieving

heading

healing

hearing

heating

heaving

herring

hilling

hissing

hitting

hurling

hurting

jailing

jeering

jerking

jetting

keeling

keeping

kicking

killing

knitting

lading

leading

leaking

leaping

leasing

legging

lemming

licking

living

looking

mailing

making

meeting

milling

missing

mooring

netting

nipping

nursing

pacing

pairing

paring

paving

peaking

pegging

petting

phasing

phrasing

picking

plating

pleading

pleasing

pressing

pudding

quaking

quilling

racing

railing

raising

raking

raving

reading

ribbing

rigging

sailing

saving

scaling

scheming

schilling

scraping

screaming

seating

seeling

seeming

seizing

serving

setting

shading

shaving

shearing

shedding

sheeting

shelling

shilling

shipping

shirting

shredding

sitting

skilling

skimming

skirting

slating

sledding

sleeping

slitting

smelling

sneaking

sneezing

sniffing

sparing

speaking

spelling

sperling

spurling

squeezing

stating

staving

stealing

steering

sterling

sticking

streaming

stripping

swearing

sweating

sweeping

sweeting

swelling

swimming

tailing

taking

teaming

teeming

telling

thrilling

ticking

tipping

tracing

trading

trailing

tricking

trilling

trimming

tripping

veering

veiling

voiding

wading

waiting

waking

wearing

weaving

webbing

wedding

weeding

weeping

whaling

wheeling

whipping

whirling

willing

wording

working

wrecking

yearling

yelling

arching

bulging

drinking

farthing

forging

shrinking

pinching

sinking

stinking

marching

scorching

something

thinking

aging

bathing

beijing

being

birthing

bitching

bleaching

breathing

breeching

dishing

dumpling

edging

etching

fetching

fishing

fraying

kindling

laying

merging

paging

paying

peeing

pitching

playing

plaything

praying

preaching

purging

pushing

raging

rambling

saying

searching

seeing

sheathing

shoestring

sparkling

staging

stirring

stitching

stretching

swaying

switching

teaching

teething

weighing

wishing

witching

inkling

sprinkling

basting

belting

building

salmon

breasting

cresting

fielding

fixing

flemings

gilding

heckling

helping

kipling

lifting

listing

melting

pelting

piercing

pimping

quilting

resting

scrimping

seedling

shelving

shifting

sibling

smelting

stripling

tasting

testing

tilting

twisting

vesting

wasting

weakling

whistling

whitling

wielding

wrestling

yielding

hamstring

offspring

earthling

fledgling

nestling

tempting

westling

alman

dolman

wellspring

plenum

helminth

clements

claimants

ailments

almonds

almond

bellman

billman

claimant

clemence

clement

salmons

tillman

woolman

ailment

mailman

oilman

3 syllable words

annoying

canoeing

carousing

ironing

powdering

toweling

lowering

abounding

counseling

downsizing

pronouncing

glistening

governing

listening

whitening

leavening

lessening

happening

lightening

fastening

laundering

assuming

blundering

annealing

concurring

conveying

deadening

deafening

designing

outlying

paneling

polluting

pondering

reasoning

reckoning

quickening

provoking

aligning

battening

channeling

divining

maddening

ongoing

opining

outgoing

opposing

opening

reducing

seasoning

softening

undoing

thickening

stiffening

threatening

sickening

sweetening

thundering

undying

wandering

adjoining

belonging

vanishing

arriving

battering

buffeting

coloring

dialing

diapering

conjuring

carrying

copying

wrongdoing

chattering

covering

flattering

machining

doddering

following

conquering

jockeying

journeying

neutering

cushioning

motoring

offering

scattering

shadowing

watering

winnowing

sojourning

smattering

soldering

stuttering

suffering

astounding

compounding

confounding

dumbfounding

accusing

amusing

approving

ascending

badgering

bundling

campaigning

commanding

commuting

composing

conceding

concerning

confiding

connecting

conserving

consoling

consuming

crocheting

dampening

darkening

declining

fondling

foreboding

forwarding

gardening

gathering

hardening

housekeeping

housewarming

lamenting

layering

mothering

oncoming

outfitting

outpouring

pardoning

patrolling

reclining

shortening

underling

unfailing

unfeeling

unwilling

unwitting

abiding

adoring

agreeing

alerting

alluring

amazing

appalling

appealing

asserting

baffling

becoming

beginning

beguiling

blossoming

blustering

bottling

bubbling

bustling

cackling

centering

colouring

cradling

crippling

crusading

cycling

debating

delighting

discerning

diverting

dividing

doubling

drizzling

entering

faltering

flamingo

freewheeling

ensuing

factoring

galloping

highflying

bungling

juggling

lawmaking

leveling

locating

lumbering

meddling

middling

modeling

mottling

muscling

ordering

peddling

piddling

plastering

presiding

proceeding

profiling

profiting

promising

quarreling

challenging

raveling

approaching

warehousing

groundbreaking

blanketing

rendering

outstanding

converging

scavenging

retiring

reviving

riveting

scribbling

seducing

settling

sizzling

surpassing

surviving

tabling

ticketing

traversing

vomiting

accenting

complaining

conforming

consulting

contacting

confusing

convincing

handwriting

hardworking

strengthening

tormenting

unbending

unsparing

unyielding

anything

arranging

assuring

damaging

diverging

fingering

finishing

lingering

maturing

polishing

ravishing

soldiering

tinkering

billowing

bettering

dairying

favoring

flavoring

glimmering

bickering

bullying

echoing

caressing

laboring

lettering

mellowing

murmuring

narrowing

neighboring

papering

pickering

peppering

pitying

tapering

seagoing

shimmering

surveying

tailoring

varying

yellowing

according

admiring

affecting

alarming

aspiring

backbiting

blackmailing

bloodletting

bloodsucking

bullfighting

bumbling

carpeting

comforting

complying

defusing

departing

descending

disarming

disguising

dissecting

dissenting

dissolving

dwindling

endearing

enticing

equating

erupting

exciting

flamingos

gambling

imposing

incoming

infighting

inserting

invading

inviting

kidnapping

lactating

life-giving

marketing

mumbling

nerve-racking

networking

observing

offsetting

parceling

railroading

recording

regarding

relapsing

revolting

revolving

rumbling

scaffolding

scrambling

sleepwalking

succeeding

surprising

trembling

trumpeting

tumbling

typesetting

typewriting

uprising

upsetting

butchering

feathering

issuing

measuring

melanin

weathering

contracting

nourishing

wagering

landscaping

languishing

withering

conflicting

expanding

transporting

unthinking

beholding

brainwashing

bushwhacking

carjacking

engaging

marshaling

matchmaking

obliging

tinkling

twinkling

arresting

befitting

blistering

correcting

besetting

thanksgiving

unflinching

believing

deserving

detailing

emitting

pervading

flamenco

forbidding

forgiving

pilfering

preceding

prevailing

relieving

repeating

reversing

tempering

landholding

visiting

well-being

whispering

abducting

absorbing

afflicting

attracting

backsliding

broadcasting

childbearing

completing

disgusting

enclosing

enduring

engraving

engrossing

enlisting

exacting

exhausting

expiring

exulting

forecasting

frustrating

harvesting

impending

imploring

importing

improving

increasing

inspiring

installing

insulting

investing

painstaking

shoplifting

shortcoming

constricting

enchanting

forthcoming

beseeching

besieging

churchgoing

culminate

rejoicing

distracting

bookkeeping

degrading

despairing

emptying

resisting

dressmaking

easterling

erecting

exceeding

good-looking

misgiving

misleading

mistaking

eavesdropping

heartbreaking

decreasing

imprinting

exploring

interesting

persisting

culminates

everything

holmium

refreshing

solomon

dissembling

distressing

excepting

expelling

misspelling

respecting

existing

reflecting

hairdressing

perplexing

shipbuilding

clementine

clemency

almanac

fulminate

elements

filaments

almoner

element

filament

calamine

melamine

4 syllable words

awakening

pioneering

mountaineering

agonizing

fascinating

nonrecurring

domineering

laminating

diagnosing

underlying

annotating

detonating

dominating

fireproofing

overpowering

unassuming

unavailing

polonium

parachuting

petitioning

oceangoing

edifying

gratifying

moderating

notifying

operating

overlying

realizing

reentering

waterproofing

unbecoming

unbelieving

underpinning

undertaking

underwriting

unremitting

disappointing

disapproving

examining

patronizing

enlightening

aluminium

speechifying

admonishing

astonishing

conditioning

engineering

fluctuating

merchandising

partitioning

undulating

appetizing

bewildering

bicycling

delegating

developing

disabling

disappearing

hesitating

inquiring

irritating

mitigating

never-ending

obviating

occupying

oscillating

overrating

persevering

overlapping

overruling

overbearing

overcoming

overflowing

suffocating

vacillating

condescending

corresponding

disconcerting

executing

unrelenting

notwithstanding

agitating

discouraging

millennium

selenium

encouraging

energizing

disheartening

overhauling

overarching

activating

advertising

aggravating

barbecuing

captivating

circulating

coexisting

denigrating

devastating

embarrassing

emphasizing

encircling

entertaining

enveloping

everlasting

interlocking

interviewing

liberating

maximizing

overwhelming

palpitating

penetrating

separating

understanding

aluminum

inheriting

inhibiting

disengaging

illuminate

millenniums

integrating

intersecting

calculating

centralizing

complicating

encompassing

enterprising

babysitting

registering

alimony

alumina

distributing

palimony

culmination

dispiriting

fingerprinting

disparaging

legislating

aluminize

eliminate

salmonella

implicating

pulmonary

elemental

eliminates

melanoma

distinguishing

salamander

elementary

illuminates

salamanders

palomino

6 syllable words

Words that rhyme with the word clowning

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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.


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

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

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