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

governs

clanging

hanging

banging

dumpling

govern

arming

banding

boarding

buckling

bunting

carling

carping

chanting

charming

coupling

coursing

cuddling

dancing

darling

duckling

evening

farming

forcing

forming

funding

glancing

harping

hoarding

hunting

jumping

landing

lightning

lumping

marking

morphing

panting

parking

parting

piercing

planting

pumping

sharking

shuffling

shunting

slanting

snarling

sparling

sporting

standing

starling

starting

storming

suckling

thrusting

thumping

warming

warping

trusting

warling

airing

awning

bucking

budding

clearing

clowning

clucking

coming

dawning

dining

boring

barring

bearing

blaring

browning

burping

butting

caning

chirping

curling

cutting

daring

culling

curing

derring

diving

draining

driving

drugging

drumming

dubbing

ducking

during

earring

erring

feigning

fining

firing

flaring

flooding

flooring

fucking

gearing

ginning

girding

giving

glaring

having

herring

hugging

humming

hurling

hurting

inning

jarring

jerking

jutting

kenning

lining

living

loring

mining

mooring

mugging

nursing

nutting

pairing

paring

pining

plugging

plumbing

puffing

putting

roaring

rubbing

shearing

shining

shirting

skirting

scarring

serving

shoring

signing

snoring

soaring

sparing

sperling

spinning

spurling

steering

sterling

straining

striving

strutting

stuffing

sucking

swearing

training

trucking

twining

veering

waning

wearing

whirling

winning

wiring

wording

working

yearling

arching

banking

branching

bulging

farthing

forging

franking

lunching

marching

nanking

planking

scorching

something

spanking

birthing

blushing

brushing

caverns

chevron

crushing

flushing

gushing

judging

longing

stirring

merging

nothing

purging

ringing

searching

singing

springing

stinging

taverns

touching

wringing

handling

kindling

nestling

rambling

sparkling

tempting

westling

acting

angling

asking

belting

bending

binding

blasting

blending

blinding

bonding

bouncing

bounding

boxing

breasting

building

camping

carving

casting

cavern

costing

crackling

cresting

daunting

drafting

ending

fainting

faulting

fencing

finding

fixing

founding

frosting

gilding

glinting

golfing

grafting

grappling

grasping

grinding

grounding

heckling

helping

hounding

inkling

kipling

lamping

lasting

lending

lifting

listing

malting

melting

mincing

minding

mounting

ousting

painting

pelting

pending

pimping

pouncing

pounding

printing

quilting

rafting

resting

rifling

romping

rounding

salting

sapling

scalping

scrimping

shafting

shelving

shifting

sibling

smelting

sounding

spending

sprinkling

squinting

stamping

straddling

stripling

tackling

tamping

taunting

tavern

testing

tilting

trifling

twisting

vaulting

vesting

wanting

whistling

whitling

wilding

wincing

winding

wrestling

batting

brimming

calling

chilling

chopping

calming

caulking

chipping

colling

craving

cribbing

crossing

backing

bagging

boning

braving

brawling

browsing

cleaning

climbing

clipping

clocking

clogging

clouding

cocking

codding

cooking

cracking

damning

crooning

knitting

lagging

knocking

lapping

laughing

licking

shrinking

liking

loaning

madding

missing

mocking

launching

mapping

moving

sinking

leaning

legging

lemming

lighting

logging

looking

lopping

matting

meaning

nagging

napping

netting

nipping

nodding

offing

outing

packing

padding

passing

paving

pegging

petting

picking

piling

piping

plodding

popping

pouting

pressing

pinching

priming

prowling

pudding

quilling

riding

pruning

racking

raving

ribbing

rigging

rising

rocking

rousing

roving

sacking

sagging

saving

schilling

setting

shaving

shedding

shipping

shocking

shredding

screening

shelling

shilling

shrouding

siding

sighting

sitting

sizing

skilling

skimming

slapping

sledding

sliding

slighting

slitting

slotting

smacking

viking

walking

walling

wapping

weaving

webbing

wedding

whacking

whipping

wrecking

yachting

whiting

whopping

willing

writing

yelling

bidding

biding

blessing

billing

belling

docking

doubting

dragging

dressing

drilling

dripping

dropping

dwelling

fleming

flitting

flogging

footing

gadding

galling

gassing

getting

greening

grouting

heading

hearing

heaving

hiding

hilling

hitting

hogging

hopping

housing

hissing

icing

earthling

stalling

stopping

wellspring

stocking

strapping

striking

sweating

swelling

swimming

swooning

topping

trimming

tripping

offspring

tossing

fledgling

stinking

smelling

drinking

staving

sticking

tuning

hamstring

trilling

stripping

tricking

falling

bedding

blocking

dicing

biting

digging

fehling

dilling

dipping

fighting

thinking

flagging

snapping

sopping

fitting

sobbing

killing

kicking

jeering

jetting

sniffing

jogging

milling

spelling

filing

filling

grieving

stacking

talking

telling

tiding

tipping

tacking

ticking

thrilling

foundling

groundling

shoestring

affirms

bitching

catching

dashing

dishing

edging

crashing

etching

fetching

fishing

flashing

lashing

latching

lodging

matching

pitching

tithing

pushing

switching

wishing

slouching

thrashing

witching

patching

scratching

washing

couching

hatching

stitching

stretching

drawing

crying

affronts

buying

drying

dyeing

dying

fraying

frying

lying

paying

playing

mowing

lawing

laying

flying

praying

saying

sighing

prying

swaying

trying

tying

vying

weighing

basting

boasting

bolting

coasting

coaxing

fielding

folding

golding

holding

hosting

molting

moulding

pointing

posting

roasting

scolding

seedling

tasting

toasting

wasting

weakling

wielding

yielding

auburn

affirm

affront

reprint

aching

baking

beading

beaming

beating

blooming

boating

boiling

bolling

booming

booting

boozing

breaking

breeding

briefing

broiling

broking

brooding

bruting

casing

ceiling

chafing

chasing

choking

cooling

coping

creaking

creeping

dealing

facing

fading

failing

feeding

feeling

jailing

joking

keeling

gaming

ailing

baiting

blazing

bleeding

bleeping

bowling

bracing

braiding

cloaking

closing

coating

coiling

combing

doting

dueling

eating

easing

eking

flaming

fleeting

floating

foaming

foiling

framing

freaking

freezing

fruiting

fuming

glazing

gloaming

grading

grating

grayling

grazing

greeting

grooming

grouping

healing

heating

holing

homing

keeping

leading

leaking

loading

lading

leaping

leasing

looming

looping

losing

mailing

making

meeting

musing

muting

nosing

oozing

pacing

peaking

phasing

phrasing

plating

pleading

pleasing

poking

poling

polling

pooling

quaking

racing

railing

raising

raking

reading

roofing

ruling

sailing

scaling

schooling

scraping

rolling

scheming

screaming

seating

seeling

seeming

seizing

shading

sheeting

shooting

slating

soaking

sleeping

sloping

smoking

sneaking

sneezing

speaking

stating

stealing

stooping

squeezing

stowing

streaming

stroking

suiting

sweeping

sweeting

tailing

taking

teaming

teeming

tooling

tracing

trading

trailing

tubing

veiling

voiding

voting

wading

waiting

waking

weeding

weeping

whaling

wheeling

whooping

befriends

aging

breeching

clothing

coaching

beijing

reprints

bleaching

bathing

breathing

loathing

paging

preaching

sheathing

smoothing

soothing

staging

supreme

teaching

plaything

raging

teething

brewing

doing

being

blowing

blueing

bluing

bowing

chewing

cooing

crowing

flowing

glowing

going

growing

sewing

showing

knowing

owing

screwing

seeing

suing

peeing

throwing

lowing

befriend

reforms

refrains

reform

sprinters

springer

newborns

shopworn

supremes

newborn

lowborn

reborn

springtime

sprinkle

sprinkler

aprons

sovrans

vibrant

springboard

sprinklers

sprinkles

sprinter

apron

deform

fibrin

saffron

sovran

refrain

spearman

ephraim

deformed

reformed

3 syllable words

battering

bettering

bickering

buffeting

chattering

diapering

doddering

favoring

flattering

flavoring

glimmering

lettering

offering

peppering

pickering

powdering

scattering

shimmering

smattering

soldering

watering

adjoining

government

machining

sojourning

cowering

flowering

glowering

complaining

convincing

unbending

souring

towering

abounding

according

affecting

alarming

approving

feathering

governors

bloodletting

connecting

gathering

campaigning

badgering

withering

descending

butchering

measuring

weathering

dissenting

forwarding

inserting

invading

networking

patrolling

pronouncing

recording

unfailing

uprising

upsetting

governor

abiding

adoring

alluring

annealing

appalling

appealing

assuming

beginning

besetting

blistering

bubbling

bustling

centering

designing

detailing

dividing

doubling

entering

factoring

faltering

juggling

laundering

lawmaking

leveling

muscling

offerings

opposing

ordering

pervading

pilfering

plastering

polluting

pondering

proceeding

reducing

rendering

reviving

riveting

tempering

undoing

undying

wandering

whispering

matchmaking

everything

governments

approaching

annoying

canoeing

carrying

dairying

journeying

laboring

motoring

murmuring

narrowing

neighboring

neutering

papering

surveying

tailoring

tapering

varying

astounding

assuring

absorbing

attracting

compounding

conforming

confounding

belonging

dumbfounding

frustrating

hardworking

tinkering

impending

conquering

unsparing

conjuring

investing

fingering

lingering

maturing

overhung

peppermint

ravishing

layering

lowering

accusing

amusing

aspiring

blackmailing

bloodsucking

bumbling

composing

conceding

bundling

commuting

complying

confiding

departing

enchanting

consoling

consuming

declining

decreasing

degrading

despairing

disarming

dressmaking

easterling

equating

erecting

inviting

lactating

mistaking

mumbling

nerve-racking

reclining

regarding

tumbling

succeeding

relapsing

rumbling

unwitting

reverence

reverend

reverent

overrun

trumpeting

typewriting

overman

unfeeling

severance

wagering

unwilling

battening

befitting

beguiling

bungling

bushwhacking

crusading

deadening

deafening

delighting

emitting

engaging

ensuing

expanding

fastening

glistening

happening

highflying

imprinting

labyrinth

lessening

lightening

listening

locating

maddening

obliging

opening

outgoing

outlying

outstanding

presiding

quickening

reasoning

reckoning

refreshing

repeating

retiring

seasoning

seducing

sickening

softening

stiffening

surrounding

surviving

sweetening

thickening

threatening

visiting

well-being

whitening

bullying

mellowing

yellowing

reflecting

deferment

misspelling

afflicting

anything

broadcasting

cushioning

arriving

pitying

winnowing

copying

consulting

shadowing

confusing

completing

arranging

besieging

caressing

carousing

everyone

echoing

billowing

dissembling

toweling

following

vanishing

overhang

distressing

overruns

handwriting

hairdressing

soldiering

dialing

expelling

rejoicing

exacting

excepting

unyielding

jockeying

engraving

unflinching

engrossing

importing

improving

increasing

constricting

emptying

afferent

crocheting

deference

difference

different

evermore

exceeding

efferent

endearing

hibernate

bullfighting

erupting

exciting

railroading

revolting

revolving

scaffolding

issuing

enticing

good-looking

outpouring

nourishing

foreboding

pardoning

resisting

nevermore

gardening

operant

admiring

darkening

defusing

overnight

bookkeeping

dampening

backbiting

disguising

dissecting

housekeeping

housewarming

imposing

life-giving

superman

infighting

kidnapping

reference

hardening

misleading

shortening

distracting

conflicting

contracting

eavesdropping

groundbreaking

heartbreaking

landscaping

transporting

beholding

overhangs

becoming

blossoming

cackling

correcting

apprentice

bottling

deferments

cycling

drizzling

ongoing

opining

preceding

profiting

promising

quarreling

raveling

relieving

scribbling

sizzling

ticketing

settling

vomiting

carjacking

baffling

galloping

scavenging

cradling

forbidding

meddling

piddling

arresting

forgiving

middling

modeling

freewheeling

peddling

surpassing

warehousing

believing

channeling

tabling

challenging

crippling

mottling

paneling

landholding

damaging

abducting

enclosing

enduring

exhausting

enlisting

apparent

polishing

accenting

backsliding

churchgoing

disgusting

finishing

childbearing

existing

expiring

sopranos

exulting

uppermost

wrongdoing

forecasting

harvesting

imploring

inspiring

installing

insulting

painstaking

shipbuilding

shoplifting

strengthening

tormenting

seagoing

dissolving

fondling

incoming

downsizing

dwindling

surprising

trembling

gambling

typesetting

persisting

scrambling

parceling

carpeting

counseling

marketing

misgiving

offsetting

oncoming

outfitting

soprano

reaffirms

exploring

interesting

unthinking

blanketing

brainwashing

thanksgiving

marshaling

tinkling

reformist

twinkling

overmatch

profiling

contacting

apprehend

perplexing

respecting

shortcoming

appearance

oberon

forthcoming

reformists

reaffirm

reprimands

languishing

sleepwalking

reprimand

abhorrence

beseeching

beforehand

reformers

vibrancy

differently

reformer

aberrant

debarment

abhorrent

cyprian

4 syllable words

bavarian

underpinning

awakening

governorship

unavailing

underlying

liberating

moderating

overlying

operating

separating

copernican

activating

governorships

advertising

captivating

underwriting

entertaining

everlasting

aggravating

undertaking

fascinating

dominating

suffocating

delegating

overbearing

laminating

mitigating

nonrecurring

obviating

oscillating

overcoming

overflowing

overlapping

overpowering

overrating

overruling

persevering

vacillating

irritating

hesitating

annotating

understanding

detonating

developing

agitating

condescending

disconcerting

discouraging

encouraging

energizing

governmental

overarching

overhauling

petitioning

realizing

reentering

unrelenting

references

penetrating

waterproofing

overwhelming

circulating

palpitating

disappointing

disapproving

devastating

affirmative

encircling

interlocking

interviewing

differences

examining

unremitting

enveloping

astonishing

conditioning

disparaging

fluctuating

undulating

fireproofing

agonizing

bewildering

disappearing

unassuming

inquiring

hibernation

appetizing

diagnosing

calculating

enterprising

integrating

intersecting

fingerprinting

oceangoing

corresponding

complicating

parachuting

registering

gratifying

notifying

pioneering

pepperoni

edifying

unbecoming

barbecuing

emphasizing

maximizing

notwithstanding

dispiriting

patronizing

reverently

speechifying

tabernacle

admonishing

disengaging

legislating

affirmation

merchandising

domineering

labyrinthine

apprentices

occupying

reformation

reverential

encompassing

executing

implicating

centralizing

apparently

enlightening

unbelieving

mountaineering

coexisting

affirmations

aforementioned

apprenticeship

distributing

engineering

partitioning

referendum

deferential

disabling

differential

apprenticeships

bicycling

disheartening

referendums

denigrating

differentials

embarrassing

superhuman

papier-mache

effrontery

reappearance

inheriting

supremacy

inhibiting

apprehensive

apprehension

babysitting

appearances

iberian

hyperion

liberian

siberian

apprehensions

liberians

superimpose

distinguishing

deformities

covariance

deformity

supremely

deformation

7 syllable words

Words that rhyme with the word governing

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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