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

barring

blocking

awning

brawling

calling

chopping

calming

clocking

clogging

cocking

codding

culling

docking

dropping

filing

flogging

galling

hopping

jarring

jogging

knocking

lopping

mocking

nodding

piling

plodding

popping

prowling

rocking

scarring

shocking

slotting

sobbing

sopping

stalling

stopping

walling

wapping

stocking

topping

whopping

yachting

bulging

blowing

going

drawing

lowing

bowing

crowing

flowing

growing

knowing

lawing

glowing

mowing

marching

owing

sewing

arching

throwing

farthing

showing

collins

lodging

washing

sparkling

acting

asking

banding

belting

binding

blasting

blinding

boarding

bolting

bouncing

bounding

buckling

building

bunting

camping

casting

chanting

costing

coupling

coursing

dancing

drafting

duckling

fielding

filings

finding

crackling

cuddling

daunting

folding

forcing

forming

founding

frosting

funding

gilding

glancing

golding

grafting

grappling

grasping

grinding

grounding

helping

hoarding

holding

horning

hounding

hunting

jumping

lamping

landing

lasting

lightning

lumping

melting

minding

molting

morning

morphing

moulding

mounting

mourning

ousting

panting

pelting

pilings

planting

pouncing

pounding

pumping

quilting

rafting

rifling

rounding

sapling

scolding

shafting

shelving

shuffling

shunting

slanting

smelting

sounding

sporting

stamping

standing

storming

straddling

suckling

tackling

tamping

taunting

thrusting

thumping

tilting

trifling

trusting

warling

warming

warning

warping

wielding

winding

yielding

along

forging

franking

nanking

backing

lunching

ailing

bagging

batting

belling

biding

billing

biting

boating

boiling

bolling

boning

boring

bowling

broiling

broking

browning

browsing

bucking

budding

butting

caulking

ceiling

chilling

choking

climbing

cloaking

closing

clouding

clowning

clucking

coating

coiling

combing

coming

cooling

coping

cracking

crossing

cunning

curling

cutting

damning

dawning

dealing

dicing

dilling

dining

diving

doting

doubting

dragging

drilling

driving

drugging

drumming

dubbing

ducking

dueling

dwelling

failing

feeling

fehling

fighting

filling

fining

firing

flagging

floating

flooding

flooring

foaming

foiling

fucking

gadding

gassing

gloaming

grayling

grouting

gunning

having

healing

hiding

hilling

hogging

holing

homing

housing

hugging

humming

joking

lighting

liking

hurling

jutting

keeling

killing

launching

icing

jailing

lagging

lapping

laughing

lining

loading

loaning

logging

loring

loving

madding

mailing

mapping

matting

milling

mining

mugging

nagging

napping

nosing

nutting

offing

outing

packing

padding

panning

passing

plugging

plumbing

puffing

putting

quilling

racking

railing

schilling

banking

priming

pooling

pouting

scorching

polling

branching

pining

piping

poking

poling

riding

rising

roaring

rolling

rousing

roving

rubbing

ruling

running

sacking

sagging

sailing

scaling

schooling

seeling

shelling

shilling

shining

shoring

shrouding

siding

sighting

signing

sizing

skilling

slapping

sliding

slighting

smacking

smelling

sloping

smoking

snapping

snoring

soaking

soaring

spelling

sperling

spurling

stacking

stealing

sterling

stowing

strapping

striking

striving

stroking

strutting

stuffing

stunning

sucking

swelling

tacking

tailing

talking

tanning

telling

thrilling

tiding

tooling

tossing

trailing

trilling

trucking

planking

twining

something

spanking

veiling

viking

voting

walking

whacking

whaling

wheeling

whirling

whiting

willing

wiring

writing

yearling

yelling

banging

blueing

bluing

blushing

brewing

brushing

buying

catching

chewing

clanging

clothing

coaching

cooing

couching

crashing

crushing

crying

dashing

doing

drying

dumpling

dyeing

dying

flashing

flushing

flying

foundling

frying

groundling

gushing

handling

hanging

hatching

judging

lashing

latching

loathing

longing

lying

matching

nothing

patching

pollens

prying

rambling

scratching

screwing

sighing

slouching

suing

thrashing

tithing

touching

trying

tying

vying

blending

alongs

billings

basting

bending

boasting

breasting

ceilings

coaxing

coasting

cresting

dealings

evening

dwellings

ending

failings

fainting

feelings

fencing

fillings

fixing

glinting

heckling

hosting

killings

kipling

lending

lifting

listing

mailings

mincing

painting

pointing

pimping

posting

pending

piercing

printing

railings

resting

roasting

shillings

squinting

shellings

seedling

angling

scrimping

skillings

rulings

shifting

sibling

spending

stripling

rollings

schillings

tailings

tasting

testing

toasting

vesting

wasting

whitling

twisting

weakling

whistling

wincing

wrestling

hamstring

offspring

wellspring

fledgling

pinching

shrinking

sinking

thinking

volumes

almost

drinking

earthling

scallions

stinking

aching

airing

baiting

baking

beading

beaming

bearing

beating

bedding

belong

blaring

bidding

blazing

bleeding

bleeping

blessing

blooming

boozing

bracing

booting

booming

braiding

braving

breaking

breeding

briefing

brimming

brooding

bruting

burning

burping

caning

casing

chafing

chasing

chipping

chirping

churning

cleaning

clearing

clipping

craving

cooking

creaking

creeping

cribbing

crooning

curing

daring

derring

draining

digging

dipping

dressing

dripping

during

earning

earring

easing

eating

eking

erring

facing

fading

feeding

feigning

fitting

flaming

flaring

fleeting

fleming

flitting

footing

framing

freaking

freezing

fruiting

fuming

gaming

gearing

getting

ginning

girding

giving

glaring

glazing

grading

grating

grazing

greening

greeting

grieving

grooming

grouping

heading

hearing

heating

heaving

herring

hissing

hitting

hurting

inning

jeering

jerking

jetting

keeping

kenning

kicking

knitting

lading

leading

leaking

leaning

leaping

learning

leasing

legging

lemming

licking

living

looking

looming

looping

losing

making

meaning

meeting

missing

mooring

moving

musing

netting

oolong

oozing

paving

peaking

pegging

muting

nipping

nursing

pacing

pairing

paring

petting

phasing

phrasing

picking

plating

pleading

pleasing

pressing

pruning

pudding

reading

quaking

raising

raking

raving

racing

ribbing

screaming

rigging

roofing

saving

seeming

seizing

seating

scheming

scraping

screening

serving

setting

shading

shaving

shearing

shedding

sheeting

shipping

shirting

shooting

shredding

sitting

skimming

skirting

slating

sledding

sleeping

slitting

sneaking

sneezing

sniffing

sparing

speaking

spinning

squeezing

stating

staving

steering

sticking

stooping

straining

streaming

stripping

suiting

sweeping

sweeting

swearing

sweating

swimming

teeming

teaming

ticking

tipping

tracing

trading

swooning

training

taking

tricking

trimming

tripping

tubing

tuning

turning

veering

voiding

wading

waiting

waking

waning

wearing

weaving

webbing

wedding

weeding

weeping

whooping

winning

whipping

wording

working

wrecking

yearning

kindling

nestling

shoestring

tempting

westling

balloons

aging

breeching

bathing

breathing

collums

columns

dishing

fetching

fishing

flounces

glances

merging

mullens

paging

preaching

purging

pushing

gallons

raging

ringing

saloons

searching

sheathing

singing

teaching

wishing

witching

smoothing

springing

staging

stinging

stitching

wringing

sullens

stretching

teething

beijing

balance

birthing

bitching

bleaching

edging

etching

pitching

plaything

silence

soothing

switching

talons

being

fraying

inkling

laying

paying

peeing

playing

praying

seeing

swaying

saying

sprinkling

stirring

weighing

challenge

plunges

belongs

balanced

billions

millions

clannish

melange

challenged

alines

alums

felons

melons

valence

villains

woolens

tlingit

slinger

clinic

clumsy

phalanx

blemish

flemish

slinky

helmsman

clinics

felines

blancmange

blankly

flanges

klansman

plankton

clinique

clincher

plumage

plunger

climax

nylons

pylons

salons

blanket

clinches

blankets

cleanser

flimsy

cleansers

kleenex

clamshell

clenches

3 syllable words

provoking

polluting

ballooning

opposing

outgoing

canoeing

doddering

annoying

echoing

winnowing

jockeying

seagoing

coloring

copying

narrowing

soldering

toweling

dialing

polishing

composing

consoling

foreboding

patrolling

railroading

revolving

scaffolding

alerting

aligning

alluring

appalling

assuming

baffling

blossoming

bottling

bubbling

bustling

cackling

channeling

colouring

cycling

doubling

faltering

galloping

highflying

juggling

modeling

mottling

muscling

outlying

paneling

pondering

profiting

promising

quarreling

raveling

reducing

undoing

vomiting

wandering

approaching

covering

diapering

offering

flattering

ironing

watering

buffeting

chattering

powdering

stuttering

battering

bullying

carrying

scattering

suffering

tailoring

smattering

belonging

enclosing

adjoining

churchgoing

conjuring

conquering

consulting

hardworking

wrongdoing

shoplifting

abounding

according

accusing

alarming

allowance

amusing

approving

badgering

bloodletting

bumbling

bundling

carpeting

commanding

commuting

complying

consuming

counseling

cowering

darkening

departing

disarming

dissolving

flowering

fondling

forwarding

gambling

gardening

gathering

glowering

hardening

imposing

issuing

lowering

marketing

mothering

mumbling

parceling

pardoning

pronouncing

recording

regarding

rumbling

scrambling

souring

towering

tumbling

unwitting

violins

governing

maddening

seducing

settling

well-being

laundering

lawmaking

leveling

lightening

lumbering

peddling

piddling

pilfering

plastering

scribbling

softening

tabling

thundering

traversing

meddling

middling

scavenging

happening

proceeding

whitening

marshaling

obliging

sizzling

ordering

relieving

surrounding

profiling

belongings

amazing

diverting

annealing

challenging

divining

carjacking

agreeing

beguiling

believing

delighting

drizzling

ensuing

factoring

blundering

blustering

concurring

fastening

abiding

adoring

appealing

asserting

battening

cradling

conveying

crippling

debating

bungling

assuring

balloonist

abducting

absorbing

afflicting

astounding

damaging

attracting

backsliding

broadcasting

childbearing

contacting

dumbfounding

vanishing

complaining

completing

compounding

conforming

confounding

confusing

engrossing

exulting

forecasting

diverging

unyielding

colonist

machining

harvesting

imploring

maturing

insulting

ravishing

rejoicing

soldiering

arriving

bettering

bickering

caressing

laboring

neighboring

neutering

papering

pickering

pitying

shimmering

surveying

varying

carousing

dairying

favoring

flavoring

glimmering

glowingly

journeying

lettering

motoring

murmuring

peppering

tapering

dampening

defusing

observing

offsetting

outfitting

outpouring

bloodsucking

oncoming

declining

networking

reclining

relapsing

bullfighting

blackmailing

campaigning

conceding

concerning

confiding

connecting

conserving

shortening

comforting

typewriting

backbiting

trembling

trumpeting

typesetting

erupting

equating

lactating

lamenting

housekeeping

underling

admiring

affecting

good-looking

housewarming

ascending

aspiring

unfeeling

unwilling

uprising

upsetting

unfailing

downsizing

dwindling

life-giving

revolting

dissecting

succeeding

misleading

alliance

butchering

colonies

colonize

crocheting

dalliance

feathering

galleons

hellenic

nourishing

polemic

polonaise

violence

measuring

wagering

weathering

withering

matchmaking

colonists

layering

balloonists

converging

brainwashing

beholding

blanketing

tinkling

conflicting

outstanding

twinkling

contracting

languishing

transporting

exploring

heartbreaking

arresting

becoming

befitting

beginning

besetting

blistering

centering

correcting

crusading

deadening

deafening

deserving

designing

detailing

discerning

dividing

emitting

entering

forbidding

forgiving

freewheeling

glistening

landholding

leavening

lessening

listening

locating

opening

opining

pervading

preceding

quickening

reasoning

reviving

surviving

reckoning

rendering

repeating

reversing

seasoning

surpassing

thickening

threatening

presiding

prevailing

retiring

riveting

sickening

stiffening

sweetening

tempering

ticketing

undying

unflinching

visiting

whispering

willingly

accenting

bilingual

convincing

disgusting

enlisting

exacting

exhausting

frustrating

handwriting

importing

improving

installing

perplexing

reflecting

shipbuilding

shortcoming

tormenting

unbending

unsparing

anything

tinkering

arranging

sojourning

silences

cushioning

beseeching

besieging

colonized

finishing

fingering

climactic

lingering

enchanting

forthcoming

enticing

erecting

alongside

bookkeeping

challenges

decreasing

degrading

descending

despairing

disguising

dissenting

dressmaking

easterling

endearing

emptying

exceeding

exciting

incoming

infighting

inserting

invading

inviting

kidnapping

misgiving

mistaking

nerve-racking

persisting

resisting

sleepwalking

surprising

unthinking

expanding

groundbreaking

landscaping

distracting

interesting

eavesdropping

engaging

chileans

aliens

refreshing

reliance

salinas

columnist

everything

balancer

silencer

bushwhacking

warehousing

thanksgiving

challenger

constricting

dissembling

distressing

enduring

engraving

excepting

existing

expelling

expiring

hairdressing

impending

increasing

inspiring

investing

misspelling

painstaking

respecting

strengthening

balances

columnists

climaxes

illnesses

relinquish

palmistry

polemics

delinquent

imprinting

elongate

challengers

almighty

bulimic

clumsily

delinquents

dilemmas

felonies

hellenize

fluency

blemishes

schoolmaster

pleonasm

plumages

4 syllable words

diagnosing

oscillating

overflowing

unassuming

vacillating

pioneering

moderating

realizing

oceangoing

operating

gratifying

unbelieving

barbecuing

undulating

obviating

occupying

nonrecurring

unavailing

agonizing

annotating

underlying

fascinating

fireproofing

laminating

dominating

domineering

suffocating

bicycling

complicating

agitating

parachuting

overlying

overarching

activating

aggravating

circulating

disappointing

disapproving

maximizing

palpitating

waterproofing

allowances

violinist

admonishing

fluctuating

astonishing

partitioning

appetizing

disappearing

calculating

delegating

centralizing

mitigating

persevering

polynesian

condescending

developing

corresponding

disabling

overlapping

executing

unrelenting

awakening

bewildering

detonating

hesitating

irritating

colonizer

disheartening

notwithstanding

overhauling

petitioning

violinists

separating

advertising

devastating

reentering

edifying

liberating

captivating

emphasizing

encircling

enlightening

notifying

understanding

enveloping

everlasting

examining

interlocking

interviewing

mountaineering

overwhelming

patronizing

penetrating

unbecoming

underpinning

undertaking

underwriting

unremitting

alliances

colonizers

conditioning

engineering

galenical

legislating

merchandising

speechifying

integrating

encompassing

babysitting

inquiring

implicating

disconcerting

never-ending

overcoming

overpowering

overrating

overruling

overbearing

encouraging

registering

discouraging

energizing

melancholic

distributing

dispiriting

coexisting

denigrating

embarrassing

entertaining

disengaging

disparaging

elongation

inheriting

inhibiting

hellenism

hellenizes

delinquency

enterprising

intersecting

relinquishes

delinquencies

elongated

fingerprinting

distinguishing

ylang-ylang

melancholy

polemical

melanesian

polemicist

melanesians

clinically

Words that rhyme with the word following

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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