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

evening

fielding

seedling

wielding

yielding

bleeding

beading

bleeping

breeding

chopping

creeping

dropping

easing

feeding

freezing

grieving

hearing

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hopping

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keeping

leading

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finding

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hamstring

offspring

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awning

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eking

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gearing

giving

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greening

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heating

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jogging

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knocking

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living

mapping

meaning

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mocking

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paving

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phasing

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plodding

raising

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rising

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shading

shaving

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sizing

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speaking

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yachting

groundling

foundling

handling

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beijing

bleaching

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being

seeing

inkling

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arming

banding

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camping

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charming

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cuddling

darling

ending

fainting

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funding

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ailing

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erring

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feigning

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filling

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fitting

during

flaming

flaring

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flooding

flooring

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nestling

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grayling

having

grouping

heading

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icing

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learning

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making

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mining

missing

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nursing

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writing

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abstracts

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angling

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something

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offshoots

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subside

abstain

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websters

upstream

spectre

webster

3 syllable words

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brainwashing

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housewarming

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darkening

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good-looking

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revisit

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typesetting

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carjacking

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beginning

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misspelling

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excepting

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doubling

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entering

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fastening

happening

juggling

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shipbuilding

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rhapsodic

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anything

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oboist

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defection

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defections

tapestries

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subacute

spectacles

spaghetti

suffocate

robustly

4 syllable words

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enveloping

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inheriting

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overarching

reentering

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patronizing

underwriting

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merchandising

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awakening

babysitting

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corresponding

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agonizing

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baby-sitter

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baby-sitters

obsidian

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suffocation

obstetrician

capacitance

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opacity

ubiquity

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sophisticate

spectacular

sophisticates

substantiates

capacities

substantiate

effectuate

substantially

7 syllable words

Words that rhyme with the word eavesdropping

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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