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

coaching

loathing

smoothing

soothing

molten

buildings

foundling

groundling

banding

belting

bending

binding

blending

blinding

bonding

bouncing

costing

coursing

daunting

ending

finding

forcing

forming

frosting

funding

golfing

grinding

helping

landing

lending

melting

horning

minding

morning

morphing

mounting

mourning

ousting

pelting

pending

pointing

pouncing

quilting

scalping

shelving

smelting

spending

standing

sporting

storming

taunting

tilting

warling

warming

warning

warping

winding

ailing

bedding

crooning

crossing

dealing

dilling

scorching

culling

curling

doubting

drilling

dwelling

fading

failing

feeding

feeling

falling

beading

belling

bidding

biding

billing

bleeding

blooming

booming

booting

boozing

boring

braiding

breeding

browning

browsing

bruting

budding

caulking

ceiling

chilling

clowning

codding

colling

dawning

fehling

fruiting

fuming

gadding

grayling

hogging

farthing

grading

grooming

grouping

grouting

heading

healing

hiding

hilling

forging

flooding

flooring

housing

hurling

jailing

filling

launching

filing

girding

keeling

leading

logging

baldwin

lading

killing

looming

looping

loring

losing

madding

mailing

milling

moving

musing

muting

nodding

offing

oozing

outing

padding

piling

pleading

plodding

pouting

pruning

pudding

quilling

railing

reading

riding

roaring

roofing

rousing

sailing

scaling

schilling

seeling

shading

shedding

shelling

shilling

shooting

shoring

shredding

siding

skilling

sledding

sliding

snoring

stealing

bulging

smelling

soaring

spelling

spurling

sterling

suiting

swelling

tailing

talking

sperling

stooping

swooning

telling

thrilling

tiding

tossing

trading

trailing

trilling

tubing

tuning

veiling

wading

walking

wedding

weeding

whaling

wheeling

whirling

whooping

willing

wording

yearling

yelling

blueing

bluing

brewing

chewing

cooing

doing

drawing

lawing

mowing

screwing

suing

bathing

breathing

couching

shoestring

dalton

fielden

gilden

longing

selden

sheathing

slouching

teething

tithing

acting

arming

asking

basting

blasting

boxing

breasting

buckling

bunting

camping

carling

carping

carving

casting

chanting

charming

coupling

crackling

cresting

cuddling

dancing

darling

drafting

duckling

evening

fainting

farming

fencing

fixing

glancing

glinting

grafting

grappling

grasping

harping

heckling

hunting

jumping

kipling

lamping

lasting

lifting

lightning

listing

lumping

marking

mincing

painting

panting

parking

parting

piercing

pimping

planting

pleadings

printing

pumping

rafting

resting

rifling

romping

sapling

scrimping

seedling

shafting

sharking

shifting

shuffling

shunting

sibling

slanting

snarling

sparling

squinting

stamping

starling

starting

straddling

stripling

suckling

tackling

tamping

tasting

testing

thrusting

thumping

trifling

trusting

twisting

vesting

wanting

wasting

weakling

whistling

whitling

wincing

wrestling

arching

banking

branching

daltons

drinking

earthling

fledgling

franking

offspring

lunching

nanking

sinking

spanking

wellspring

something

marching

pinching

stinking

planking

shrinking

thinking

aching

airing

awning

backing

bagging

baiting

baking

barring

batting

beaming

bearing

beating

biting

blaring

blazing

bleeping

blessing

blocking

bracing

braving

breaking

briefing

brimming

bucking

burning

burping

butting

calming

caning

casing

chafing

chasing

chipping

chirping

chopping

churning

cleaning

clearing

climbing

clipping

clocking

clogging

clucking

cocking

coming

cooking

cracking

craving

creaking

creeping

cribbing

cunning

curing

cutting

damning

daring

derring

dicing

digging

dining

dipping

diving

docking

dragging

draining

dressing

dripping

driving

dropping

drugging

drumming

dubbing

ducking

during

earning

earring

easing

eating

eking

erring

facing

feigning

fighting

fining

firing

fitting

flagging

flaming

flaring

fleeting

fleming

flitting

flogging

footing

framing

freaking

freezing

fucking

gaming

gassing

gearing

getting

ginning

giving

glaring

glazing

grating

grazing

greening

greeting

grieving

gunning

having

hearing

heating

heaving

herring

hissing

hitting

hopping

hugging

humming

hurting

icing

inning

jarring

jeering

jerking

jetting

jogging

jutting

keeping

kenning

kicking

knitting

knocking

lagging

lapping

laughing

leaking

leaning

leaping

learning

leasing

legging

lemming

licking

lighting

liking

lining

living

looking

lopping

loving

making

mapping

matting

meaning

meeting

mining

missing

mocking

mooring

mugging

nagging

napping

netting

nipping

nursing

nutting

pacing

packing

pairing

panning

paring

passing

paving

peaking

pegging

petting

phasing

phrasing

picking

pining

piping

plating

pleasing

plugging

plumbing

popping

pressing

priming

puffing

putting

quaking

racing

racking

raising

raking

raving

ribbing

rigging

rising

rocking

rubbing

running

sacking

sagging

saving

scarring

scheming

scraping

screaming

screening

seating

seeming

seizing

serving

setting

shaving

shearing

sheeting

shining

shipping

shirting

shocking

sighting

signing

sitting

sizing

skimming

skirting

slapping

slating

sleeping

slighting

slitting

slotting

smacking

snapping

sneaking

sneezing

sniffing

sobbing

sopping

sparing

speaking

spinning

squeezing

stacking

stating

staving

steering

sticking

stocking

stopping

straining

strapping

streaming

striking

stripping

striving

strutting

stuffing

stunning

sucking

swearing

sweating

sweeping

sweeting

swimming

tacking

taking

tanning

teaming

teeming

ticking

tipping

topping

tracing

training

tricking

trimming

tripping

trucking

turning

twining

veering

viking

waiting

waking

waning

wapping

wearing

weaving

webbing

weeping

whacking

whipping

whiting

whopping

winning

wiring

working

wrecking

writing

yachting

yearning

dumpling

handling

kindling

nestling

rambling

sparkling

tempting

westling

aging

banging

beijing

birthing

bitching

swaying

blushing

breeching

brushing

clanging

stirring

bleaching

catching

crashing

crushing

dashing

dishing

edging

etching

fetching

fishing

flashing

flushing

gushing

hanging

hatching

judging

lashing

latching

lodging

playing

matching

flying

fraying

frying

paying

peeing

melton

dying

patching

being

crying

dyeing

laying

lying

prying

nothing

saying

trying

vying

weighing

paging

seeing

merging

tying

pitching

preaching

seldom

raging

ringing

staging

singing

springing

stinging

stitching

washing

drying

buying

praying

wringing

sighing

plaything

purging

pushing

searching

stretching

sultan

scratching

switching

teaching

thrashing

touching

wishing

witching

angling

inkling

sprinkling

gladden

glidden

gluten

hamstring

sultans

playthings

all-time

flatten

platten

platen

bloodhound

blatant

flattened

full-time

platinum

gluttons

mealtime

bloodhounds

platoon

platoons

3 syllable words

lowering

soldiering

crocheting

forwarding

revolting

crusading

faltering

laundering

locating

opening

opining

ordering

outlying

profiling

surrounding

coloring

offering

powdering

toweling

yellowing

following

mellowing

tailoring

watering

neutering

billowing

bullying

sojourning

wrongdoing

landholding

cowering

flowering

glowering

paladin

souring

towering

abounding

according

beholden

consoling

dissolving

foreboding

haltingly

misleading

scaffolding

railroading

patrolling

recording

abiding

alerting

aligning

alluring

appalling

ballooning

believing

blundering

colouring

delighting

dividing

forbidding

freewheeling

galloping

highflying

lawmaking

opposing

pervading

pilfering

polluting

pondering

preceding

presiding

proceeding

provoking

relieving

rendering

softening

thundering

undoing

undying

volition

wandering

well-being

arriving

battering

bettering

bickering

buffeting

caressing

carousing

carrying

chattering

copying

covering

dairying

dialing

diapering

doddering

echoing

favoring

flattering

flavoring

shipbuilding

belonging

astounding

polishing

backsliding

childbearing

glimmering

ironing

jockeying

journeying

laboring

lettering

murmuring

compounding

narrowing

neighboring

peppering

pickering

scattering

seagoing

stuttering

suffering

surveying

varying

soldering

confounding

papering

unyielding

pitying

shadowing

shimmering

smattering

tapering

dumbfounding

winnowing

alarming

ascending

bloodletting

bullfighting

commanding

complying

composing

conceding

confiding

counseling

declining

degrading

descending

downsizing

endearing

equating

exceeding

gardening

good-looking

hardening

housekeeping

housewarming

imposing

invading

networking

offsetting

oncoming

outfitting

outpouring

pardoning

pronouncing

reclining

regarding

relapsing

revolving

shortening

sleepwalking

succeeding

unwilling

unwitting

badgering

butchering

feathering

gathering

measuring

mothering

nourishing

wagering

weathering

withering

groundbreaking

challenging

layering

brainwashing

bushwhacking

approaching

outstanding

obliging

adoring

agreeing

amazing

annealing

appealing

arresting

asserting

assuming

baffling

battening

becoming

befitting

beginning

beguiling

besetting

blistering

blossoming

blustering

bottling

bubbling

bustling

cackling

centering

channeling

concurring

conveying

correcting

cradling

crippling

cycling

deadening

deafening

debating

deserving

designing

detailing

discerning

diverting

divining

doubling

drizzling

emitting

entering

factoring

fastening

forgiving

glistening

governing

happening

juggling

leavening

lessening

leveling

lightening

listening

lumbering

maddening

meddling

middling

modeling

mottling

muscling

ongoing

outgoing

paneling

peddling

piddling

plastering

prevailing

profiting

promising

quarreling

quickening

raveling

reasoning

reckoning

reducing

repeating

retiring

reversing

reviving

riveting

scribbling

seasoning

seducing

settling

sickening

sizzling

stiffening

surpassing

surviving

sweetening

tabling

tempering

thickening

threatening

ticketing

traversing

visiting

vomiting

whispering

whitening

completing

enclosing

enduring

forecasting

hairdressing

handwriting

complaining

hardworking

broadcasting

absorbing

consulting

afflicting

conforming

abducting

engrossing

enlisting

exulting

impending

imploring

installing

insulting

exhausting

importing

perplexing

reflecting

tormenting

shoplifting

shortcoming

unbending

adjoining

anything

arranging

assuring

beseeching

besieging

churchgoing

conjuring

conquering

cushioning

damaging

diverging

fingering

finishing

lingering

machining

maturing

ravishing

rejoicing

tinkering

vanishing

forthcoming

annoying

canoeing

accusing

admiring

affecting

amusing

approving

aspiring

backbiting

blackmailing

bloodsucking

bookkeeping

bumbling

bundling

campaigning

carpeting

comforting

commuting

concerning

connecting

conserving

consuming

dampening

darkening

decreasing

defusing

departing

despairing

disarming

disguising

dissecting

dissenting

dressmaking

dwindling

easterling

emptying

enticing

erecting

erupting

exciting

fondling

gambling

incoming

infighting

inserting

inviting

kidnapping

lactating

lamenting

life-giving

marketing

misgiving

mistaking

mumbling

nerve-racking

observing

parceling

persisting

resisting

rumbling

scrambling

surprising

trembling

trumpeting

tumbling

typesetting

typewriting

underling

unfailing

unfeeling

uprising

upsetting

conflicting

eavesdropping

expanding

exploring

landscaping

languishing

transporting

blanketing

bungling

carjacking

converging

engaging

everything

marshaling

matchmaking

ultima

celadon

bulletin

gelatine

glutamic

guillotine

issuing

skeleton

refreshing

scavenging

plutonic

tinkling

twinkling

warehousing

unflinching

accenting

attracting

confusing

contacting

convincing

disgusting

dilution

dissembling

distressing

engraving

dilation

elation

deletion

pollution

relation

exacting

excepting

existing

expelling

expiring

improving

inspiring

solution

frustrating

harvesting

painstaking

misspelling

fleetingly

investing

ensuing

increasing

respecting

aleutian

strengthening

unsparing

bulletins

enchanting

militant

miltonic

skeletons

sultanate

contracting

aleutians

distracting

relations

deletions

solutions

unthinking

interesting

heartbreaking

imprinting

thanksgiving

palatine

platonic

militants

allotment

constricting

allotments

ultimate

gluttony

platonist

platonists

blatantly

4 syllable words

overlying

overflowing

overlapping

bewildering

notifying

overwhelming

overbearing

overcoming

overpowering

overrating

overruling

collodion

coalition

foliation

realizing

overarching

overhauling

oceangoing

coexisting

awakening

coalitions

delegating

developing

diagnosing

inquiring

never-ending

oscillating

underlying

vacillating

corresponding

palladium

plutonian

edifying

liberating

moderating

operating

gratifying

pioneering

reentering

separating

circulating

disappointing

enlightening

enveloping

everlasting

interlocking

mountaineering

palpitating

unbelieving

underpinning

undertaking

waterproofing

underwriting

caladiums

conditioning

undulating

legislating

merchandising

melatonin

fluctuating

speechifying

agonizing

annotating

appetizing

babysitting

bicycling

calculating

centralizing

complicating

condescending

detonating

disabling

disappearing

dominating

domineering

fascinating

fireproofing

hesitating

implicating

irritating

laminating

mitigating

nonrecurring

obviating

occupying

persevering

suffocating

unassuming

unavailing

unrelenting

agitating

discouraging

encouraging

petitioning

parachuting

registering

melatonins

notwithstanding

energizing

activating

aggravating

advertising

captivating

denigrating

devastating

disapproving

dispiriting

emphasizing

embarrassing

encircling

entertaining

maximizing

penetrating

examining

unremitting

understanding

patronizing

unbecoming

violation

admonishing

astonishing

disengaging

disparaging

engineering

inheriting

inhibiting

militancy

partitioning

altimeter

disconcerting

encompassing

enterprising

executing

integrating

intersecting

disheartening

relational

valuation

violations

distributing

altimetry

altimeters

interviewing

valuations

fingerprinting

barbecuing

distinguishing

relationship

relationships

ultimatum

ultimatums

ultimately

6 syllable words

Words that rhyme with the word holding

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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