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

wellspring

explodes

fixing

stripling

whistling

kipling

explain

explode

offspring

explains

westling

kindling

exploits

nestling

dumpling

buckling

building

coupling

duckling

exploit

gilding

heckling

inkling

listing

mincing

piercing

pimping

quilting

scrimping

sibling

sprinkling

suckling

tilting

twisting

weakling

whitling

wincing

wrestling

chilling

earring

kicking

loring

missing

expel

chipping

clearing

milling

tripping

clipping

drilling

dripping

killing

billing

boring

dilling

dipping

flooring

hilling

hissing

filling

gearing

licking

picking

schilling

skilling

nipping

quilling

roaring

shearing

shilling

shipping

shoring

snoring

soaring

thrilling

ticking

hamstring

steering

sticking

stripping

tipping

tricking

trilling

veering

whipping

willing

wishing

fishing

tempting

dishing

shoestring

fencing

forcing

fielding

glinting

grappling

forming

grasping

jumping

lifting

lumping

melting

morning

morphing

mourning

pumping

shelving

shifting

smelting

sporting

squinting

storming

warling

warming

warning

warping

pelting

sapling

shuffling

thrusting

thumping

trusting

vesting

wielding

yielding

helping

hoarding

horning

printing

resting

seedling

tackling

testing

boxing

cuddling

boarding

coaxing

cresting

breasting

coursing

crackling

belting

airing

bearing

barring

belling

bidding

blaring

bleeping

blessing

brawling

brimming

bucking

calling

caulking

ceiling

clucking

cooking

creaking

creeping

cribbing

crossing

culling

curing

daring

dawning

dealing

derring

digging

dressing

ducking

during

dwelling

eking

erring

feeling

fehling

firing

fitting

flaring

flitting

freaking

fucking

sinking

galling

ginning

giving

healing

hearing

herring

hitting

glaring

hogging

inning

stinking

thinking

jarring

forging

jeering

fledgling

keeling

shrinking

keeping

paring

sniffing

trimming

peaking

stealing

wheeling

displace

displayed

displays

displease

spinning

stalling

tossing

trucking

weeping

pinching

misplace

misspell

bulging

mooring

offing

pairing

spelling

sucking

swearing

drinking

sweeping

swelling

swimming

telling

wiring

wrecking

yelling

talking

winning

knitting

leaking

leaping

leasing

living

logging

looking

pressing

scorching

ribbing

scarring

seeling

shelling

sitting

sleeping

rigging

skimming

slitting

smelling

speaking

walking

wearing

sneaking

sparing

walling

groundling

foundling

handling

sparkling

rambling

bitching

brushing

gushing

pushing

stinging

stitching

dispel

display

pitching

ringing

singing

blushing

crushing

flushing

longing

springing

switching

witching

wringing

lawing

angling

drawing

misspells

sixfold

bending

boasting

bouncing

carping

carving

coasting

darling

daunting

glancing

golding

golfing

holding

lasting

lending

roasting

rifling

ousting

romping

salting

scalping

acting

arming

asking

basting

blasting

blending

bolting

bunting

camping

carling

casting

charming

costing

dancing

ending

evening

farming

faulting

folding

frosting

funding

harping

hosting

hunting

lamping

malting

molting

moulding

parting

pending

posting

pouncing

scolding

snarling

spending

starting

shunting

sparling

starling

stamping

straddling

tasting

taunting

toasting

trifling

wasting

wilding

tamping

vaulting

arching

dispels

farthing

launching

earthling

lunching

marching

something

aching

ailing

backing

baking

beading

beaming

beating

bedding

bleeding

blocking

boiling

bolling

bowling

bracing

breaking

breeding

briefing

broiling

broking

budding

burping

butting

casing

chasing

chirping

choking

chopping

cleaning

cloaking

clocking

cocking

coiling

colling

coming

cooling

coping

cracking

cunning

curling

cutting

dicing

docking

dropping

drugging

drumming

dubbing

dueling

easing

eating

facing

failing

falling

feeding

filing

fleeting

fleming

foiling

getting

freezing

flooding

footing

gassing

grayling

greening

greeting

grouping

gunning

heading

heating

holing

grieving

heaving

hopping

hugging

humming

hurling

icing

jailing

jerking

jetting

joking

jutting

kenning

knocking

lapping

leaning

looping

leading

legging

lemming

liking

lopping

loving

mailing

making

mapping

meaning

meeting

mocking

mugging

napping

netting

nursing

nutting

pacing

packing

passing

pegging

petting

piling

piping

pleading

pleasing

plugging

plumbing

poking

poling

polling

pooling

popping

prowling

pudding

puffing

putting

quaking

racing

racking

railing

raking

reading

rocking

rolling

rubbing

ruling

running

sacking

sailing

scaling

scheming

schooling

scraping

screaming

screening

seating

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seizing

setting

shedding

sheeting

shocking

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slapping

sledding

sloping

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smoking

snapping

sneezing

soaking

sopping

sperling

spurling

squeezing

stacking

sterling

stocking

stooping

stopping

strapping

streaming

striking

stroking

strutting

stuffing

stunning

sweating

sweeting

tacking

tailing

taking

teaming

teeming

tooling

topping

tracing

trailing

veiling

viking

waking

wapping

weaving

webbing

wedding

weeding

whacking

whaling

whirling

whooping

whopping

yearling

working

bleaching

breathing

breeching

crashing

dashing

edging

etching

fetching

flashing

gospel

judging

lashing

nothing

preaching

sheathing

stretching

teaching

teething

thrashing

touching

washing

banding

binding

blinding

bonding

bounding

chanting

drafting

finding

marking

blowing

sighing

grinding

hounding

grafting

grounding

lightning

showing

fainting

founding

landing

minding

panting

crowing

crying

drying

dyeing

dying

frying

glowing

going

throwing

pointing

rafting

growing

mowing

stirring

planting

parking

flying

trying

mounting

flowing

owing

tying

painting

pounding

rounding

shafting

buying

peeing

being

prying

vying

bowing

lying

sharking

seeing

slanting

knowing

winding

lowing

sewing

sounding

standing

wanting

baseballs

spanking

planking

banking

nanking

asphalt

franking

bagging

baiting

biding

biting

braiding

braving

brooding

chafing

closing

clouding

clowning

coating

craving

crooning

dining

foaming

framing

fruiting

grading

grating

grazing

grooming

grouting

having

hiding

learning

lighting

lining

loading

moving

musing

muting

nagging

nodding

outing

awning

batting

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boning

booming

booting

boozing

browning

browsing

bruting

burning

calming

caning

churning

climbing

clogging

codding

combing

damning

diving

doting

doubting

dragging

draining

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earning

fading

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fighting

fining

flagging

flaming

floating

flogging

fuming

gadding

gaming

girding

glazing

gloaming

homing

housing

hurting

jogging

lading

lagging

laughing

loaning

looming

losing

madding

matting

mining

nosing

oozing

padding

panning

paving

phasing

phrasing

pining

plating

plodding

pouting

priming

pruning

raising

raving

riding

rising

roofing

rousing

roving

sagging

saving

serving

shading

shaving

shining

shirting

shooting

shrouding

siding

sighting

signing

sizing

slating

sliding

skirting

slighting

slotting

sobbing

stating

staving

stowing

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striving

suiting

swooning

tanning

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trading

training

tubing

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voiding

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voting

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wording

writing

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aging

beijing

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cesspool

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clothing

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baseball

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chewing

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gospels

weighing

blueing

bluing

cooing

screwing

laying

saying

peaceful

nosebleed

houseful

useful

bashful

bagful

3 syllable words

aspiring

declining

despairing

expletive

reclining

whispering

transporting

insulting

misspelling

belonging

backsliding

unsparing

according

complying

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exceeding

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exciting

misleading

outpouring

recording

sleepwalking

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appalling

blistering

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pilfering

retiring

explosion

expulsion

displaces

misplaces

absorbing

billowing

conforming

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enclosing

excepting

exulting

impending

improving

discipline

pickering

complaining

completing

consulting

respecting

shipbuilding

alarming

descending

relapsing

succeeding

explicit

regarding

dissolving

equating

inserting

mistaking

explosions

consoling

imposing

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expulsions

dwindling

inviting

misgiving

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approaching

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believing

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colouring

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disciplines

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glistening

listening

middling

muscling

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piddling

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repeating

reviving

riveting

scribbling

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sizzling

stiffening

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thickening

ticketing

tinkling

twinkling

accenting

astounding

compounding

dissembling

enduring

unyielding

coloring

echoing

glimmering

winnowing

fingering

yellowing

cushioning

besieging

lingering

tinkering

mellowing

peppering

shimmering

bloodletting

blackmailing

consuming

explicate

backbiting

conserving

counseling

endearing

emptying

parceling

dressmaking

housewarming

mumbling

accusing

admiring

approving

ascending

bookkeeping

bullfighting

bumbling

bundling

composing

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concerning

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defusing

easterling

incoming

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kidnapping

patrolling

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rumbling

surprising

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underling

trembling

trumpeting

typewriting

unfailing

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alerting

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appealing

asserting

assuming

ballooning

befitting

beginning

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cackling

centering

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deserving

cycling

esplanade

divining

doubling

emitting

ensuing

entering

factoring

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freewheeling

galloping

highflying

juggling

leavening

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leveling

lumbering

meddling

opposing

outlying

peddling

plastering

polluting

preceding

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rendering

settling

undying

imprinting

outstanding

threatening

thundering

bungling

bushwhacking

visiting

warehousing

well-being

seducing

reversing

dumbfounding

frustrating

handwriting

confusing

engraving

increasing

confounding

disgusting

existing

thanksgiving

investing

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painstaking

shoplifting

unbending

displacement

misapplies

rejoicing

maturing

soldiering

finishing

constricting

beseeching

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bettering

stuttering

suffering

tailoring

tapering

following

covering

enchanting

bullying

lettering

offering

diapering

narrowing

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papering

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seagoing

watering

commanding

lamenting

persisting

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nourishing

lactating

issuing

housekeeping

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commuting

feathering

misapply

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mothering

railroading

interesting

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campaigning

disciple

comforting

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downsizing

erecting

displacements

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displeasure

erupting

typesetting

weathering

abounding

engaging

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challenging

refreshing

agreeing

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correcting

broadcasting

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reflecting

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happening

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locating

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opening

opining

ordering

outgoing

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profiling

reducing

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surviving

childbearing

enlisting

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engrossing

undoing

wandering

adjoining

polishing

machining

espalier

churchgoing

ravishing

vanishing

conquering

anything

forthcoming

distracting

eavesdropping

buffeting

canoeing

affecting

marketing

landscaping

oncoming

scaffolding

enticing

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foreboding

arriving

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connecting

carousing

darkening

carrying

chattering

copying

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flattering

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soldering

toweling

varying

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resplendent

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blanketing

gathering

landholding

everything

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attracting

baffling

bottling

channeling

cowering

cradling

diverting

flowering

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forecasting

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glowering

hairdressing

harvesting

lawmaking

layering

lowering

modeling

mottling

paneling

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promising

provoking

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raveling

reasoning

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shortcoming

softening

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surrounding

sweetening

tabling

tormenting

towering

whitening

fixable

damaging

conjuring

wrongdoing

sojourning

disbelieve

disciples

disbelief

outfitting

languishing

life-giving

surveying

fondling

good-looking

networking

scrambling

unwitting

bloodsucking

gambling

ironing

matchmaking

unflinching

carjacking

brainwashing

scavenging

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highfliers

contacting

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lightening

maddening

profiting

vomiting

disabled

disables

gardening

hardening

unthinking

nerve-racking

pardoning

highflier

contracting

taxables

journeying

disable

hardworking

miscible

passably

possibly

usefully

visible

heartbreaking

dishevel

reachable

teachable

groundbreaking

arranging

taxable

diverging

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feasible

leasable

likable

likeable

massively

passively

peaceable

legible

sociable

touchable

washable

chasuble

fusible

laughable

passable

possible

sizable

usable

4 syllable words

enveloping

interlocking

bewildering

developing

inquiring

disappearing

disappointing

disapproving

maximizing

explosively

dispiriting

explication

disparaging

inhibiting

overpowering

inheriting

underlying

centralizing

discouraging

enterprising

executing

exploration

realizing

unbelieving

underwriting

interviewing

circulating

disheartening

everlasting

disengaging

overflowing

persevering

overlapping

legislating

bicycling

oscillating

disabling

vacillating

undulating

explorations

occupying

calculating

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corresponding

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encompassing

integrating

unrelenting

energizing

liberating

overlying

reentering

petitioning

separating

registering

examining

entertaining

explicitly

enlightening

explainable

waterproofing

advertising

devastating

notwithstanding

speechifying

understanding

exploitation

conditioning

explanation

equivalence

equivalent

fluctuating

merchandising

partitioning

fascinating

irritating

fingerprinting

unassuming

unavailing

fireproofing

delegating

mitigating

nonrecurring

never-ending

appetizing

explanations

condescending

oceangoing

overarching

parachuting

equivalents

operating

explicable

edifying

unbecoming

distributing

coexisting

penetrating

activating

palpitating

barbecuing

encircling

emphasizing

mountaineering

agonizing

awakening

implicating

detonating

hesitating

overruling

suffocating

agitating

exfoliate

overhauling

pioneering

patronizing

captivating

denigrating

gratifying

embarrassing

notifying

moderating

intersecting

overcoming

overrating

annotating

diagnosing

domineering

dominating

laminating

aggravating

overwhelming

unremitting

admonishing

astonishing

engineering

distinguishing

babysitting

obviating

overbearing

encouraging

underpinning

undertaking

issuable

Words that rhyme with the word exploring

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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