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Rhymes Here is a list of the words that rhyme with the word encouraging.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 encouraging.
2 syllable words

encrypt

edging

merging

purging

bending

blending

encrust

ending

fencing

heckling

inkling

langridge

lending

pending

spending

sprinkling

airing

banking

drinking

earthling

lunching

shrinking

sinking

daring

derring

erring

kenning

sparing

branching

glaring

flaring

franking

herring

wellspring

pinching

swearing

wrecking

wearing

bulging

fledgling

nanking

planking

forging

spanking

stinking

blaring

pairing

paring

bearing

thinking

aging

birthing

bitching

dishing

etching

fetching

fishing

judging

raging

stretching

handling

tempting

searching

switching

paging

pitching

staging

stitching

wishing

westling

witching

kindling

nestling

angling

increased

incrust

sanskrit

belting

dancing

fixing

funding

glinting

glancing

melting

panting

planting

pelting

mincing

printing

fainting

slanting

asking

acting

breasting

buckling

shunting

smelting

bunting

banding

crackling

duckling

hunting

landing

shelving

cresting

chanting

helping

painting

resting

squinting

standing

suckling

wrestling

vesting

conscripts

tackling

wincing

testing

bankrupt

hamstring

launching

baking

burning

increase

burping

churning

clearing

clipping

cracking

cribbing

dripping

ducking

scorching

drilling

aching

backing

breaking

brimming

bucking

chilling

chipping

during

dwelling

chirping

cooking

earning

earring

dressing

marching

bidding

gangrene

dilling

dipping

billing

digging

fitting

girding

giving

ginning

blessing

fleming

caning

filling

flitting

fucking

getting

gearing

clucking

belling

cunning

curing

something

bedding

curling

gunning

farthing

fehling

feigning

heading

hilling

draining

hissing

inning

jerking

kicking

killing

knitting

milling

missing

netting

nipping

mooring

nursing

packing

panning

pegging

serving

concrete

quilling

arching

hitting

hurling

hurting

jetting

learning

legging

lemming

licking

living

looking

making

petting

picking

pressing

raking

ribbing

rigging

running

sacking

quaking

racking

schilling

setting

shearing

shedding

shelling

shilling

shipping

shirting

shredding

sitting

skilling

skimming

skirting

sledding

slitting

smacking

smelling

sniffing

spelling

sperling

spinning

spurling

stacking

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sterling

sticking

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stripping

stunning

sucking

swelling

swimming

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taking

tanning

telling

thrilling

ticking

tipping

training

tricking

sweating

trilling

waning

trimming

tripping

trucking

turning

veering

waking

webbing

wedding

whacking

whipping

willing

winning

wording

working

yearling

whirling

yearning

yelling

foundling

groundling

rambling

shoestring

conscript

sparkling

dumpling

enshrine

banging

catching

bathing

beijing

blushing

brushing

censored

censors

clanging

concern

concurs

crashing

crushing

dashing

dunkirk

flashing

flushing

gushing

hanging

hatching

incurs

lashing

latching

lodging

matching

nothing

patching

plaything

pushing

ringing

scratching

sensors

singing

springing

stinging

tensors

thrashing

touching

wringing

stirring

bankers

basting

benchers

anchored

anchors

arming

binding

blasting

blinding

boarding

bonding

bouncing

bounding

boxing

building

bunkers

camping

cankers

carling

carping

carving

casting

charming

coaxing

coupling

coursing

cuddling

darling

daunting

drafting

ensure

finding

forcing

forming

farming

founding

gilding

grafting

grappling

grasping

grinding

grounding

harping

hoarding

hounding

jumping

kipling

lamping

lasting

lifting

listing

lumping

marking

minding

morphing

mounting

parking

parting

pouncing

bankrolls

piercing

pimping

pointing

pounding

pumping

quenchers

quilting

rafting

rankers

rounding

sapling

scalping

scrimping

shafting

sharking

shifting

shuffling

sibling

sounding

snarling

sparling

sporting

stamping

starling

starting

storming

straddling

stripling

tamping

tankard

tasting

taunting

thinkers

thrusting

thumping

tilting

trusting

twisting

wanting

wasting

offspring

warming

warping

weakling

warling

whistling

whitling

winding

younkers

censor

tensor

censer

incur

concur

sensor

inscribes

inserts

concerned

concerns

ailing

anchor

anker

awning

bagging

baiting

banker

barring

batting

bencher

blazing

blocking

boning

boring

bracing

braiding

braving

broking

browning

budding

bunker

butting

canker

casing

bankroll

censure

cleaning

cloaking

clocking

clowning

craving

creaking

chafing

cocking

choking

caulking

chasing

coming

crooning

culling

cutting

damning

dawning

dining

docking

dragging

drugging

drumming

dubbing

dunker

eking

facing

fading

failing

fining

firing

flagging

flaming

flooding

flooring

footing

framing

freaking

gadding

gaming

gassing

glazing

grading

grating

grayling

grazing

greening

hanker

having

hearing

humming

jailing

jarring

knocking

jeering

hunker

joking

junker

jutting

lading

hugging

lagging

lapping

laughing

leaking

leaning

liking

lining

loaning

loring

loving

madding

mailing

mapping

matting

meaning

mining

mocking

mugging

nagging

napping

nutting

pacing

padding

passing

paving

peaking

phasing

pining

plating

plugging

plumbing

poking

pruning

pudding

puffing

putting

encroach

phrasing

quencher

racing

railing

raising

rancor

ranker

raving

rinker

roaring

rocking

rubbing

sagging

sailing

saving

scaling

scarring

scraping

screening

shading

shanker

shining

shocking

sinker

slapping

shaving

shoring

signing

slating

snoring

soaking

soaring

speaking

stocking

strapping

striking

stroking

strutting

stuffing

swooning

tailing

thinker

tinker

tracing

trading

veiling

wading

waiting

walking

whaling

winker

smoking

snapping

sneaking

stating

staving

talking

trailing

tuning

twining

viking

wiring

younker

answers

bleaching

breathing

breeching

cancers

clothing

coaching

conserve

couching

dancers

hansard

inscribe

insert

lancers

loathing

longing

mincers

preaching

sheathing

sincere

slouching

smoothing

soothing

teaching

teething

tithing

uncorks

washing

swaying

changers

being

rangers

warning

malting

seeing

weighing

coasting

golding

golfing

dangers

holding

saying

molting

mongers

roasting

romping

salting

toasting

laying

rifling

scolding

moulding

mourning

morning

seedling

vaulting

angers

boasting

costing

peeing

lunchrooms

faulting

playing

injured

injures

ousting

fraying

frosting

wilding

yielding

yonkers

lightning

pinchers

posting

wielding

praying

angry

conquers

fielding

bolting

evening

folding

horning

hosting

insure

trifling

youngers

paying

uncork

mangrove

concerts

answer

cancer

dancer

knickers

lancer

mincer

panzer

snickers

ceiling

changer

chopping

climbing

dealing

easing

eating

fleeting

floating

flogging

foiling

freezing

fruiting

fuming

ginger

galling

biding

anger

beading

beaming

beating

biting

bleeding

bleeping

blooming

boating

boiling

bolling

booming

booting

boozing

bowling

brawling

breeding

briefing

broiling

brooding

browsing

bruting

calling

calming

clogging

closing

clouding

coating

codding

coiling

colling

combing

conquer

cooling

coping

creeping

crossing

danger

dicing

diving

doting

doubting

driving

dropping

dueling

falling

feeding

feeling

fighting

filing

foaming

gloaming

enshroud

greeting

grieving

grooming

grouping

grouting

hangers

ensures

hangars

healing

logging

heating

hogging

holing

homing

hopping

housing

icing

heaving

injure

nodding

nosing

piling

pincher

offing

oozing

outing

piping

hiding

lunchroom

jogging

keeling

keeping

leading

leaping

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lighting

loading

looming

looping

lopping

losing

manger

meeting

moving

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muting

pleading

pleasing

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poling

polling

pooling

popping

pouting

priming

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ranger

reading

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rising

rolling

roofing

rousing

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scheming

schooling

screaming

seating

seeling

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seizing

sheeting

shooting

shrouding

siding

sighting

sizing

sleeping

sliding

slighting

sloping

slotting

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sobbing

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squeezing

stalling

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stooping

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stowing

streaming

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suiting

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teaming

teeming

tiding

tooling

topping

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tubing

voiding

voting

walling

wapping

weaving

weeding

weeping

wheeling

whiting

whooping

whopping

writing

yachting

yonker

engraved

bouncers

concert

monsieurs

conjures

inshore

launchers

knicker

snicker

concourse

blueing

concord

encores

engrave

inquire

blowing

vanguard

bluing

bowing

brewing

buying

chewing

cooing

crying

doing

drawing

drying

dyeing

dying

crowing

flowing

flying

frying

ganger

glowing

going

growing

hangar

hanger

knowing

lawing

lowing

lying

mowing

owing

prying

screwing

sewing

showing

sighing

suing

throwing

trying

tying

vying

wanger

consort

bouncer

insures

monsieur

smokers

sneakers

launcher

longer

conjure

encore

onshore

smoker

sneaker

conger

ringer

singer

smasher

swinger

winger

long-range

finger

linger

ringers

singers

swingers

wingers

fingers

lingers

fingered

lunger

hunger

younger

monger

hungry

longhorns

junkyard

junkyards

longshore

longhorn

home-grown

3 syllable words

encrypted

centering

concurring

entering

rendering

languishing

everything

enclosing

damaging

tinkering

enduring

enlisting

finishing

vanishing

nourishing

thanksgiving

unflinching

censorship

concerning

conserving

decreasing

endearing

incoming

incursion

inserting

networking

underling

unwilling

unwitting

blundering

reckoning

thundering

conscription

tempering

inscription

constricting

conflicting

interesting

blanketing

twinkling

imprinting

tinkling

unsparing

fingering

excepting

diverging

ravishing

hairdressing

investing

besieging

engrossing

bettering

insurgent

lingering

bickering

anchorage

convincing

dairying

peppering

encroaches

lettering

anything

pickering

handwriting

incursions

conquering

strengthening

varying

inscriptions

measuring

weathering

bookkeeping

insertion

observing

increment

encroachment

bundling

dwindling

emptying

exceeding

oncoming

succeeding

trembling

unfeeling

comforting

feathering

conceding

enticing

misgiving

invading

unfailing

agreeing

alerting

approaching

asserting

becoming

befitting

beginning

blistering

blustering

brainwashing

bungling

cackling

challenging

channeling

colouring

conveying

deadening

deafening

deserving

discerning

emitting

ensuing

factoring

forbidding

forgiving

governing

insurgents

landscaping

laundering

leavening

lessening

leveling

lumbering

meddling

obliging

paneling

peddling

pilfering

plastering

pondering

reversing

scavenging

settling

threatening

ticketing

traversing

visiting

wandering

warehousing

well-being

whispering

afflicting

conforming

broadcasting

completing

confounding

confusing

consulting

engraving

existing

forecasting

installing

insulting

painstaking

shipbuilding

unyielding

coloring

carrying

chattering

echoing

journeying

laboring

shimmering

incorrect

covering

glimmering

papering

scattering

battering

flattering

concurrence

favoring

concurrent

flavoring

murmuring

narrowing

neighboring

conjuring

smattering

stuttering

polishing

uncertain

suffering

tailoring

tapering

arranging

according

alarming

anchorman

approving

accusing

backbiting

blackmailing

bumbling

enchanting

confiding

counseling

connecting

consuming

declining

equating

exciting

consoling

easterling

fondling

forwarding

infighting

inviting

lactating

life-giving

marketing

mumbling

outfitting

patrolling

persisting

pronouncing

railroading

reclining

recording

resisting

rumbling

trumpeting

tumbling

uprising

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badgering

gathering

wagering

butchering

mothering

withering

engravings

transporting

adoring

annealing

bustling

alluring

amazing

appealing

bubbling

correcting

cycling

diverting

locating

debating

doubling

faltering

juggling

muscling

ordering

proceeding

tangerine

undoing

undying

whitening

absorbing

bankruptcy

complaining

backsliding

encroachments

shoplifting

shortcoming

landholding

sensory

frustrating

hardworking

inspiring

fingerprints

assuring

beseeching

bankruptcies

encircle

churchgoing

machining

rejoicing

maturing

sojourning

encrusted

offering

soldering

mellowing

neutering

surveying

powdering

forthcoming

ironing

motoring

jockeying

diapering

ankara

annoying

winnowing

yellowing

buffeting

arriving

canoeing

carousing

watering

doddering

bullying

ascending

aspiring

commuting

complying

eavesdropping

dissenting

downsizing

housekeeping

imageries

manuscripts

groundbreaking

dissecting

amusing

dressmaking

issuing

affecting

admiring

bullfighting

descending

erecting

composing

kidnapping

typewriting

lamenting

tangerines

fingerprint

concretely

carjacking

increases

matchmaking

cowering

flowering

glowering

lowering

souring

towering

arresting

managers

middling

pervading

piddling

polluting

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attracting

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contacting

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manuscript

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surrounding

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ongoing

surviving

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engrossment

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reflecting

opposing

injuries

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exacting

abiding

respecting

freewheeling

tormenting

assuming

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crippling

crusading

gingerly

reducing

provoking

happening

preceding

riveting

unbending

scribbling

wrongdoing

chancery

adjoining

soldiering

concerted

inserted

sincerely

fenugreek

abounding

bloodsucking

dampening

despairing

good-looking

outpouring

commanding

housewarming

nerve-racking

caressing

foreboding

revolting

contracting

copying

hungary

pitying

unthinking

billowing

manager

revolving

surprising

exploring

distracting

injury

shadowing

gingery

scaffolding

beholding

manicure

marshaling

bushwhacking

refreshing

incarnate

crocheting

concourses

democrats

aligning

astounding

baffling

ballooning

beguiling

believing

besetting

childbearing

compounding

concertos

conquerors

cradling

delighting

designing

detailing

disgusting

dividing

divining

dumbfounding

exulting

galloping

gingerbread

glistening

highflying

imagery

insurance

kangaroos

lawmaking

lightening

listening

onagers

opening

outgoing

outlying

presiding

prevailing

profiling

quickening

raveling

reasoning

relieving

repeating

retiring

reviving

seasoning

seducing

sickening

softening

stiffening

sweetening

tabling

thickening

belonging

democrat

enquiry

cushioning

inquires

inquiry

unicorn

darkening

defusing

teenager

bloodletting

conqueror

campaigning

toweling

departing

seagoing

pardoning

mistaking

following

misleading

sleepwalking

dialing

expanding

dissolving

scrambling

concerto

degrading

disguising

erupting

imposing

offsetting

disarming

kangaroo

gambling

gardening

hardening

regarding

upsetting

relapsing

outstanding

shortening

typesetting

distressing

exhausting

expelling

fanciers

enquire

mimicry

imploring

importing

improving

misspelling

monikers

vinegars

harvesting

haymakers

blossoming

bottling

finishers

modeling

mottling

opining

profiting

promising

quarreling

vomiting

anagram

denigrate

monochrome

ungrateful

enquirer

inquirer

vinegar

conjurer

parceling

fancier

haymaker

heartbreaking

carpeting

insurers

moniker

finisher

lingerie

emigrates

monographs

phonographs

punisher

conjuror

connoisseurs

lawmakers

shoemakers

teenagers

insurer

emigrate

emigres

engraver

monogram

monograph

phonograph

connoisseur

cynosure

lawmaker

shoemaker

emigre

reinsure

immigrate

concierge

congresses

emigrants

ranchero

zingaro

fingertip

congruent

emigrant

synchronize

fingerboard

fingerpaint

fingertips

immigrants

increments

angora

angoras

angrily

hungrily

congruence

immigrant

congregate

congressman

4 syllable words

encircling

underpinning

energizing

entertaining

unremitting

underlying

inheriting

disparaging

engineering

centralizing

separating

encompassing

enterprising

increasingly

intersecting

fingerprinting

enlightening

dispiriting

enveloping

examining

insurrection

interlocking

interviewing

unbecoming

undertaking

underwriting

incriminate

disappearing

babysitting

inhibiting

inquiring

disengaging

conditioning

conservative

liberating

parachuting

pioneering

reentering

insurgency

everlasting

denigrating

advertising

penetrating

unbelieving

overbearing

nonrecurring

delegating

overcoming

persevering

suffocating

hesitating

ingredient

domineering

admonishing

incredible

astonishing

understanding

annotating

unavailing

distributing

incrustation

incoherent

executing

disconcerting

insurgencies

calculating

edifying

moderating

overarching

operating

manicurist

overhauling

overlying

incorrectly

petitioning

answerable

captivating

maximizing

devastating

circulating

emphasizing

embarrassing

activating

sincerity

ingredients

overwhelming

incremental

mountaineering

partitioning

fluctuating

incredibly

merchandising

undulating

overflowing

laminating

vacillating

occupying

overrating

unassuming

overlapping

overpowering

overruling

fascinating

developing

appetizing

detonating

bicycling

bewildering

agonizing

democracies

distinguishing

uncertainly

uncertainty

congressional

incarnation

concurrently

conservancy

integrating

inaugurates

implicating

conservators

conservation

conservator

inaccurate

aggravating

incarnations

inaugurate

emigration

congruity

concertina

waterproofing

democracy

patronizing

inquiries

palpitating

barbecuing

democratics

incurable

uncertainties

complicating

diagnosing

dominating

fireproofing

never-ending

obviating

oscillating

democratic

inaugural

knickerbocker

democratize

pancreatic

inscrutable

oceangoing

registering

notwithstanding

realizing

coexisting

gratifying

demographics

emissaries

incarcerates

incorporates

knickerbockers

legislating

speechifying

disabling

irritating

menagerie

mitigating

condescending

awakening

unrelenting

incarcerate

demographic

emissary

incorporate

agitating

notifying

disappointing

disapproving

commiserates

corresponding

insurances

commiserate

disheartening

commissaries

commissary

congratulate

mimeograph

reinsurer

demography

reinsurers

pomegranate

reinsurance

coinsurance

hungarians

emigrations

ingratiate

synchronizes

congregations

hungarian

immigration

congregation

Words that rhyme with the word encouraging

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  • 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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