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

nestling

westling

heckling

wrestling

fencing

inkling

sprinkling

fledgling

wellspring

earthling

enshrine

handling

kindling

sparkling

asking

blending

bending

breasting

buckling

crackling

cresting

duckling

sanskrit

dancing

ending

pending

testing

angling

lending

encrust

resting

glancing

mincing

spending

tackling

vesting

whistling

suckling

wincing

hamstring

drinking

pinching

planking

airing

bearing

belling

blaring

blessing

culling

curling

daring

derring

dressing

dwelling

erring

fehling

flaring

glaring

herring

hurling

jerking

kenning

pairing

paring

pressing

shelling

smelling

sparing

spelling

sperling

spurling

sterling

stinking

working

swearing

lunching

spanking

swelling

thinking

telling

yearling

banking

franking

nanking

wearing

whirling

wrecking

yelling

branching

shrinking

sinking

tempting

groundling

dumpling

rambling

foundling

edging

pushing

purging

wishing

censored

birthing

censors

concern

crashing

dashing

dishing

etching

fetching

fishing

flashing

lashing

merging

searching

sensors

stretching

tensors

thrashing

encrypt

incrust

banding

belting

casting

acting

bouncing

sensor

basting

blasting

bunting

carling

censor

tensor

chanting

darling

glinting

censer

funding

grappling

grasping

coupling

cuddling

ensure

fainting

fixing

helping

hunting

kipling

landing

lasting

listing

marking

melting

painting

panting

parking

planting

shelving

shuffling

shunting

sibling

slanting

smelting

snarling

sparling

squinting

standing

starling

straddling

stripling

tasting

thrusting

trusting

twisting

whitling

warling

pelting

piercing

pouncing

printing

sapling

sharking

wasting

weakling

arching

bulging

concerned

concerns

farthing

forging

gangrene

inserts

launching

marching

scorching

offspring

aching

caning

casing

censure

chasing

chilling

chirping

clearing

drugging

drumming

dubbing

ducking

ailing

backing

bedding

billing

baking

bracing

brawling

breaking

bucking

budding

burning

burping

butting

calling

churning

clucking

colling

coming

cooking

cracking

cunning

curing

cutting

dilling

drilling

draining

during

facing

earning

earring

fleming

failing

feigning

filing

filling

conscript

falling

flooding

girding

hugging

gearing

getting

gunning

heading

hilling

hissing

fucking

gassing

ginning

humming

galling

grayling

hurting

jailing

inning

jetting

jutting

kicking

killing

learning

legging

lemming

licking

looking

loving

mailing

making

milling

missing

mooring

mugging

netting

nursing

nutting

pacing

packing

panning

passing

pegging

petting

picking

piling

plugging

plumbing

prowling

puffing

putting

quaking

quilling

racing

racking

railing

raking

rubbing

running

sacking

sailing

scaling

schilling

serving

setting

shearing

shedding

shilling

shirting

shredding

skilling

skirting

sledding

smacking

spinning

stacking

stalling

steering

sticking

straining

strutting

stuffing

stunning

sucking

sweating

tacking

tailing

taking

tanning

thrilling

ticking

tracing

trailing

training

tricking

trilling

trucking

turning

veering

veiling

waking

walling

waning

webbing

wedding

whacking

whaling

willing

winning

wording

yearning

shoestring

judging

lancers

insert

mincers

nothing

pitching

ringing

sincere

singing

springing

stinging

wringing

langridge

washing

witching

stitching

touching

switching

banging

answers

bitching

blushing

brushing

cancers

crushing

clanging

flushing

conserve

dancers

dunkirk

gushing

hanging

hansard

conscripts

stirring

daunting

drafting

farming

faulting

finding

forcing

forming

founding

gilding

golfing

grafting

grinding

grounding

harping

hosting

frosting

hoarding

hounding

lumping

lifting

malting

minding

morphing

mounting

ousting

parting

pimping

pointing

posting

pounding

pumping

quenchers

quilting

rafting

rifling

roasting

rounding

salting

scalping

arming

benchers

bankrupt

binding

blinding

boarding

boasting

bonding

bounding

boxing

building

camping

carping

carving

charming

coasting

coaxing

costing

coursing

insure

jumping

lamping

scrimping

seedling

shafting

shifting

sounding

sporting

stamping

starting

storming

tamping

taunting

thumping

tilting

toasting

trifling

vaulting

wanting

warming

warping

wilding

winding

answer

dancer

mincer

cancer

concerts

something

inscribes

lancer

awning

bagging

baiting

barring

batting

bencher

bidding

blocking

boiling

blazing

bolling

boning

braiding

boring

bowling

braving

brimming

broiling

broking

browning

caulking

ceiling

chafing

chipping

choking

cleaning

clipping

cloaking

clocking

clowning

cocking

coiling

cooling

craving

creaking

cribbing

crooning

crossing

damning

dawning

dealing

dicing

digging

dining

dipping

docking

dragging

dripping

dueling

eking

encroach

enshroud

ensures

fading

feeling

fining

firing

fitting

flagging

flaming

flitting

flooring

foiling

footing

framing

freaking

gadding

gaming

giving

glazing

grading

grating

grazing

greening

having

healing

hearing

hitting

holing

icing

jarring

jeering

joking

keeling

knitting

knocking

lading

lagging

lapping

laughing

leaking

leaning

leasing

liking

lining

living

loaning

loring

madding

mapping

matting

meaning

mining

mocking

nagging

napping

nipping

padding

paving

peaking

phasing

phrasing

pining

plating

poking

poling

polling

pooling

pruning

pudding

quencher

raising

raving

ribbing

rigging

roaring

rocking

rolling

ruling

sagging

saving

scarring

schooling

scraping

screening

seeling

shading

shaving

shining

shipping

shocking

shoring

signing

sitting

skimming

slapping

slating

slitting

smoking

snapping

sneaking

sniffing

snoring

soaking

soaring

speaking

stating

staving

stealing

stocking

strapping

striking

stripping

stroking

swimming

swooning

talking

tipping

tooling

tossing

trading

trimming

tripping

tuning

twining

viking

wading

waiting

walking

wheeling

whipping

wiring

aging

bathing

inscribe

beijing

concurs

paging

incurs

staging

hatching

matching

patching

bouncers

concert

latching

scratching

plaything

uncorks

catching

longing

raging

changers

dangers

golding

horning

inshore

lightning

molting

mongers

injures

morning

mourning

bankrolls

moulding

romping

tankard

wielding

rankers

bolting

anchored

bankers

anchors

angers

bunkers

cankers

evening

folding

holding

injured

pinchers

lunchrooms

fielding

rangers

scolding

warning

yielding

youngers

younkers

laying

buying

lawing

sighing

swaying

crying

drawing

drying

dyeing

dying

flying

fraying

frying

lying

mowing

paying

playing

praying

prying

trying

tying

vying

weighing

saying

concord

concourse

concrete

encores

increase

concur

incur

panzer

mangrove

uncork

bouncer

consort

inquire

bankroll

insures

lunchroom

anger

anchor

anker

banker

beading

bleeding

boating

beaming

beating

biding

biting

bleeping

blooming

booming

booting

boozing

breeding

briefing

brooding

browsing

bruting

calming

canker

changer

chopping

climbing

clogging

closing

clouding

coating

codding

combing

injure

jogging

keeping

squeezing

stooping

stopping

stowing

streaming

striving

suiting

sweeping

sweeting

teaming

teeming

tiding

topping

tubing

voiding

voting

wapping

weaving

weeding

weeping

whiting

whooping

whopping

writing

yachting

diving

doubting

easing

eating

engraved

coping

creeping

danger

doting

driving

dropping

feeding

fighting

fleeting

floating

flogging

foaming

freezing

fruiting

fuming

ginger

gloaming

greeting

grieving

grooming

grouping

grouting

hangars

hangers

hanker

heating

heaving

hiding

hogging

homing

hopping

housing

leading

leaping

lighting

loading

logging

looming

looping

lopping

losing

manger

meeting

moving

musing

muting

nodding

nosing

offing

oozing

outing

pincher

piping

pleading

pleasing

plodding

popping

pouting

priming

rancor

ranger

ranker

reading

riding

rising

roofing

rousing

roving

scheming

screaming

seating

seeming

seizing

shanker

siding

sighting

sizing

sleeping

sliding

sloping

sheeting

shooting

shrouding

slighting

slotting

sneezing

sobbing

sopping

breathing

breeching

encore

lodging

monsieurs

smoothing

sheathing

preaching

coaching

loathing

slouching

clothing

couching

teething

bleaching

soothing

teaching

tithing

conjures

conquers

launchers

onshore

yonkers

being

blowing

blueing

bluing

bowing

brewing

chewing

cooing

crowing

doing

engrave

flowing

ganger

glowing

going

growing

hangar

hanger

knowing

lowing

owing

peeing

screwing

seeing

sewing

showing

smasher

suing

throwing

vanguard

wanger

knickers

monsieur

snickers

yonker

conjure

conquer

launcher

longer

knicker

snicker

conger

lunger

ringer

singer

swinger

winger

smokers

sneakers

increased

hunker

junker

linger

monger

ringers

rinker

tinker

younger

younker

bunker

dunker

finger

hunger

singers

sinker

swingers

thinker

wingers

winker

fingered

fingers

hungry

lingers

thinkers

long-range

smoker

sneaker

junkyard

junkyards

angry

longshore

longhorn

longhorns

home-grown

3 syllable words

installing

consulting

insulting

bundling

censorship

concerning

conserving

counseling

dwindling

incoming

inserting

networking

trembling

underling

bustling

cackling

reckoning

lessening

leveling

meddling

paneling

settling

blanketing

engaging

centering

channeling

rendering

bungling

converging

entering

muscling

peddling

interesting

dissembling

inspiring

strengthening

expelling

painstaking

unsparing

uncertain

enduring

excepting

bloodsucking

bumbling

connecting

consoling

dressmaking

encrusted

darkening

enticing

fondling

gambling

marketing

parceling

scrambling

tumbling

unfailing

unwilling

upsetting

constricting

insertion

mumbling

oncoming

rumbling

marshaling

bubbling

everything

asserting

becoming

blundering

besetting

baffling

concurring

discerning

warehousing

deadening

doubling

drizzling

crippling

deafening

cradling

cycling

ensuing

fastening

glistening

juggling

leavening

listening

middling

piddling

quarreling

quickening

raveling

scribbling

sickening

sizzling

tabling

tempering

thickening

threatening

thundering

ticketing

exploring

insurgents

landscaping

anything

cushioning

enclosing

engrossing

concerted

disgusting

inserted

tinkering

thanksgiving

peppering

contacting

backsliding

lingering

attracting

exacting

increasing

expiring

handwriting

exulting

insurgent

misspelling

shortcoming

fingering

bettering

lettering

angrily

aspiring

carpeting

comforting

conceding

confiding

consuming

dampening

disguising

dissecting

easterling

enchanting

endearing

feathering

gardening

hardening

hungrily

increment

incursion

infighting

invading

inviting

measuring

misgiving

mistaking

observing

offsetting

pardoning

patrolling

scaffolding

shortening

trumpeting

typesetting

unfeeling

unwitting

weathering

bushwhacking

transporting

brainwashing

fingerprint

distracting

matchmaking

contracting

forgiving

colouring

factoring

stiffening

forbidding

conveying

alerting

sensory

annealing

appalling

battening

beguiling

blistering

blossoming

blustering

bottling

deserving

detailing

encourage

galloping

governing

happening

laundering

lumbering

maddening

modeling

mottling

pilfering

plastering

pondering

prevailing

reversing

riveting

surpassing

surviving

traversing

undying

wandering

whispering

anchorage

abducting

vanishing

encroaches

confounding

confusing

conforming

landholding

besieging

congresses

forecasting

engraving

conjuring

conquering

diverging

frustrating

improving

shipbuilding

hardworking

harvesting

unyielding

imploring

concurrent

finishing

incursions

covering

dairying

dialing

echoing

pickering

scattering

narrowing

glimmering

tapering

chattering

flattering

flavoring

murmuring

neighboring

stuttering

suffering

tailoring

fingerprints

battering

bickering

favoring

laboring

papering

shimmering

smattering

toweling

varying

mothering

wagering

according

admiring

anchorman

backbiting

blackmailing

declining

badgering

degrading

disarming

departing

butchering

issuing

withering

dissolving

downsizing

emptying

encouraged

erupting

exceeding

exciting

good-looking

housekeeping

housewarming

forwarding

misleading

nourishing

persisting

reclining

railroading

gathering

nerve-racking

recording

regarding

succeeding

surprising

forthcoming

scavenging

layering

challenging

engravings

congressman

groundbreaking

encryption

appealing

arresting

assuming

befitting

correcting

crusading

designing

dividing

diverting

emitting

faltering

gingerly

lawmaking

lightening

opening

ordering

pervading

presiding

proceeding

profiling

profiting

promising

reasoning

retiring

reviving

seasoning

softening

sweetening

tangerine

undoing

visiting

well-being

vomiting

importing

chancery

broadcasting

investing

insurance

enlisting

ankara

annoying

arriving

canoeing

caressing

carousing

carrying

coloring

diapering

doddering

ironing

journeying

mellowing

motoring

neutering

offering

powdering

soldering

surveying

sojourning

inscription

beseeching

conscription

encroachment

churchgoing

sincerely

ungrateful

winnowing

arranging

ravishing

watering

yellowing

accusing

tangerines

ascending

bookkeeping

kidnapping

imposing

lactating

lamenting

typewriting

affecting

erecting

sleepwalking

outpouring

decreasing

defusing

descending

dissenting

pronouncing

resisting

revolving

equating

foreboding

concourses

encroachments

eavesdropping

refreshing

concretely

inscriptions

incarnate

carjacking

beholding

conflicting

increases

heartbreaking

outlying

surrounding

ongoing

preceding

lowering

manuscript

souring

polluting

unflinching

locating

seducing

towering

repeating

ballooning

freewheeling

flowering

glowering

highflying

cowering

aligning

alluring

accenting

exhausting

existing

convincing

impending

perplexing

tormenting

reflecting

gingerbread

hairdressing

congregate

bankruptcies

bankruptcy

respecting

unbending

denigrate

rejoicing

encrypted

damaging

unicorn

incorrect

manuscripts

wrongdoing

soldiering

alarming

gingery

abounding

angoras

complying

unthinking

billowing

commanding

despairing

buffeting

bullying

following

pitying

shadowing

conjurer

revolting

injury

jockeying

languishing

hungary

manager

crocheting

emigre

engrossment

fanciers

obliging

kangaroos

distressing

divining

relieving

reinsure

completing

delighting

debating

reducing

provoking

whitening

compounding

finishers

outgoing

afflicting

opposing

astounding

complaining

angora

concertos

adoring

agreeing

injuries

dumbfounding

amazing

abiding

childbearing

beginning

believing

assuring

democrat

belonging

anagram

fancier

adjoining

emigrate

emigres

maturing

fenugreek

machining

polishing

campaigning

commuting

composing

concerto

concierge

approving

bloodletting

uprising

expanding

imprinting

outstanding

insurers

amusing

bullfighting

relapsing

finisher

approaching

emigrates

seagoing

kangaroo

punisher

democrats

copying

connoisseurs

vinegars

absorbing

insurer

imagery

shoplifting

conquerors

managers

opining

immigrate

inquires

monograph

inquiry

enquiry

monochrome

monogram

phonograph

connoisseur

life-giving

vinegar

outfitting

cynosure

conjuror

conqueror

lingerie

monographs

phonographs

enquire

haymakers

manicure

monikers

onagers

teenagers

engraver

enquirer

inquirer

haymaker

moniker

teenager

lawmakers

mimicry

shoemakers

concurrence

imageries

lawmaker

shoemaker

emigrants

ranchero

zingaro

congruence

congruent

emigrant

fingertip

fingerboard

fingerpaint

fingertips

synchronize

immigrants

increments

immigrant

4 syllable words

conservative

encouraging

energizing

centralizing

enterprising

enlightening

entertaining

enveloping

interlocking

unbecoming

underpinning

underwriting

bicycling

awakening

overcoming

underlying

inheriting

discouraging

uncertainly

advertising

everlasting

interviewing

encourages

uncertainties

inhibiting

understanding

separating

conservancy

conservators

overhauling

uncertainty

insurgencies

intersecting

encompassing

answerable

insurgency

insurrection

conservator

unbelieving

disheartening

overwhelming

sincerity

circulating

undertaking

conditioning

engineering

overbearing

overlapping

overpowering

overruling

unavailing

undulating

vacillating

calculating

executing

concurrently

petitioning

edifying

pancreatic

parachuting

liberating

overlying

disconcerting

reentering

incorrectly

registering

embarrassing

emphasizing

unremitting

congruity

aggravating

denigrating

dispiriting

maximizing

penetrating

disengaging

incredibly

merchandising

legislating

disappearing

unassuming

irritating

developing

hesitating

coinsurance

inquiring

oscillating

overflowing

overrating

annotating

inaugural

delegating

persevering

babysitting

congratulate

increasingly

pioneering

encouragement

integrating

operating

overarching

gratifying

moderating

palpitating

devastating

conservation

disapproving

disappointing

waterproofing

activating

distributing

incrustation

agonizing

appetizing

bewildering

detonating

domineering

fascinating

fireproofing

laminating

mitigating

nonrecurring

occupying

fluctuating

suffocating

disparaging

partitioning

incriminate

complicating

congregation

realizing

agitating

ingredients

democracies

notifying

inscrutable

mountaineering

patronizing

reinsurance

captivating

inaccurate

admonishing

inaugurate

concertina

incurable

democracy

incredible

demography

ingredient

speechifying

astonishing

dominating

never-ending

obviating

congressional

incarnation

corresponding

democratic

democratize

emissary

demographic

oceangoing

manicurist

inaugurates

barbecuing

coexisting

emigration

incarnations

incarcerates

democratics

demographics

commiserates

emissaries

incoherent

hungarian

implicating

condescending

diagnosing

unrelenting

menagerie

commiserate

incarcerate

examining

immigration

incorporates

fingerprinting

inquiries

mimeograph

knickerbockers

reinsurers

incremental

knickerbocker

incorporate

commissary

distinguishing

reinsurer

insurances

commissaries

notwithstanding

pomegranate

hungarians

ingratiate

emigrations

synchronizes

congregations

Words that rhyme with the word encircling

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  • 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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