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

drugging

hugging

mugging

plugging

muggings

bagging

bucking

budding

butting

clogging

clucking

coming

culling

cunning

cutting

digging

dragging

drumming

dubbing

ducking

flagging

flogging

flooding

fucking

gunning

hogging

humming

jogging

jutting

lagging

legging

logging

loving

nagging

nutting

pegging

plumbing

puffing

putting

rigging

rubbing

running

sagging

strutting

stuffing

stunning

sucking

trucking

banging

blushing

brushing

clanging

crushing

flushing

gushing

hanging

judging

longing

nothing

ringing

singing

springing

stinging

touching

wringing

buckling

bunting

coupling

cuddling

duckling

funding

hunting

jumping

leggings

lumping

pumping

riggings

shuffling

shunting

suckling

thrusting

thumping

trusting

airing

awning

backing

barring

batting

bearing

bedding

belling

bidding

biding

billing

biting

blaring

blessing

blocking

boring

brawling

brimming

browning

browsing

calling

calming

caulking

chilling

chipping

chopping

clearing

climbing

clipping

clocking

clouding

clowning

cocking

codding

colling

cooking

cracking

cribbing

crossing

curing

damning

daring

dawning

derring

dicing

dilling

dining

dipping

diving

docking

doubting

dressing

drilling

dripping

driving

dropping

during

dwelling

earring

erring

falling

fehling

fighting

filing

filling

fining

firing

fitting

flaring

fleming

flitting

flooring

footing

gadding

galling

gassing

gearing

getting

ginning

giving

glaring

grouting

having

heading

herring

hiding

hilling

hissing

hitting

hopping

housing

icing

inning

jarring

jetting

kenning

kicking

killing

knitting

knocking

lapping

laughing

lemming

licking

lighting

liking

lining

living

looking

lopping

loring

madding

mapping

matting

milling

mining

missing

mocking

mooring

napping

netting

nipping

nodding

offing

outing

packing

padding

pairing

panning

paring

passing

petting

picking

piling

pining

piping

plodding

popping

pouting

pressing

priming

prowling

pudding

quilling

racking

ribbing

riding

rising

roaring

rocking

rousing

sacking

scarring

schilling

setting

shearing

shedding

shelling

shilling

shining

shipping

shocking

shoring

shredding

shrouding

siding

sighting

signing

sitting

sizing

skilling

skimming

slapping

sledding

sliding

slighting

slitting

slotting

smacking

smelling

snapping

sniffing

snoring

soaring

sobbing

sopping

sparing

spelling

spinning

stacking

stalling

steering

sticking

stocking

stopping

strapping

striking

stripping

striving

swearing

sweating

swelling

swimming

tacking

talking

tanning

telling

thrilling

ticking

tiding

tipping

topping

tossing

tricking

trilling

trimming

tripping

twining

veering

viking

walking

walling

wapping

wearing

webbing

wedding

whacking

whipping

whiting

whopping

willing

winning

wiring

wrecking

writing

yachting

yelling

3 syllable words
Near RhymesHere is a list of the words that nearly rhyme with the word hugging.
2 syllable words

banking

bulging

drinking

franking

lunching

nanking

planking

shrinking

sinking

something

spanking

stinking

thinking

buying

crying

drawing

drying

dyeing

dying

flying

frying

lawing

lying

mowing

prying

sighing

trying

tying

vying

akins

begins

biggins

bitching

catching

couching

crashing

dashing

dishing

edging

etching

fetching

fishing

flashing

hatching

lashing

latching

lodging

matching

patching

pitching

pushing

scratching

slouching

stitching

stretching

switching

thrashing

tithing

washing

wishing

witching

dumpling

arming

boarding

bouncing

bounding

boxing

ending

fencing

finding

fixing

forming

founding

gilding

glinting

golfing

grafting

grappling

sapling

scalping

scrimping

sharking

sibling

sounding

squinting

stamping

standing

starling

starting

storming

tackling

acting

bonding

breasting

dockings

drafting

farming

faulting

forcing

frosting

glancing

grasping

grinding

grounding

harping

heckling

helping

hoarding

horning

hounding

housings

shafting

shelving

shifting

slanting

smelting

snarling

sparling

spending

sporting

straddling

stripling

belting

bending

building

camping

carling

carving

casting

banding

carping

binding

chanting

charming

malting

marking

melting

costing

coursing

crackling

lifting

lightning

listing

mincing

morning

mounting

mourning

panting

parking

parting

pickings

piercing

ousting

pimping

minding

morphing

pelting

pending

planting

tamping

taunting

pouncing

pounding

printing

quilting

twisting

vaulting

vesting

vikings

wanting

warling

warning

warping

whistling

whitling

wincing

winding

angling

warming

wilding

blending

blinding

cresting

kipling

resting

rifling

romping

rounding

testing

tilting

wrestling

salting

inkling

sprinkling

asking

darling

daunting

blasting

dancing

lamping

rafting

landing

lasting

lending

trifling

aching

ailing

baiting

baking

beading

beaming

beating

blazing

bleeding

bleeping

blooming

boating

boiling

bolling

boning

booming

booting

boozing

bowling

bracing

braiding

braving

breaking

breeding

briefing

broiling

broking

brooding

bruting

burning

burping

caning

casing

ceiling

chafing

chasing

chirping

choking

churning

cleaning

cloaking

closing

coating

coiling

combing

cooling

coping

craving

creaking

creeping

crooning

curling

dealing

doting

draining

dueling

earning

easing

eating

eking

facing

fading

failing

feeding

feeling

feigning

flaming

fleeting

floating

foaming

foiling

framing

freaking

freezing

fruiting

fuming

gaming

girding

glazing

gloaming

grading

grating

grayling

grazing

greening

greeting

grieving

grooming

grouping

healing

hearing

heating

heaving

holing

homing

hurling

hurting

jailing

jeering

jerking

joking

keeling

keeping

lading

leading

leaking

leaning

leaping

learning

leasing

loading

loaning

looming

looping

losing

mailing

making

meaning

meeting

moving

musing

muting

nosing

nursing

oozing

pacing

paving

peaking

phasing

phrasing

plating

pleading

pleasing

poking

poling

polling

pooling

pruning

quaking

racing

railing

raising

raking

raving

reading

rolling

roofing

roving

ruling

sailing

saving

scaling

scheming

schooling

scraping

screaming

screening

seating

seeling

seeming

seizing

serving

shading

shaving

sheeting

shirting

shooting

skirting

slating

sleeping

sloping

smoking

sneaking

sneezing

soaking

speaking

sperling

spurling

squeezing

stating

staving

stealing

sterling

stooping

stowing

straining

streaming

stroking

suiting

sweeping

sweeting

swooning

tailing

taking

teaming

teeming

tooling

tracing

trading

trailing

training

tubing

tuning

turning

veiling

voiding

voting

wading

waiting

waking

waning

weaving

weeding

weeping

whaling

wheeling

whirling

whooping

wording

working

yearling

yearning

against

arching

branching

bushings

earthling

forging

farthing

fledgling

lashings

launching

marching

pinching

succinct

scorching

aging

bathing

beijing

being

birthing

bleaching

blowing

blueing

bluing

bowing

breathing

breeching

brewing

chewing

clothing

coaching

cooing

cousins

crowing

doing

dozens

fixings

flowing

foundling

fraying

glowing

going

groundling

growing

handling

kindling

knowing

lagoons

lakins

laying

likins

loathing

lowing

magness

merging

nestling

owing

paging

paying

peeing

playing

plaything

praying

preaching

purging

raging

rambling

saying

screwing

searching

seeing

sewing

sheathing

showing

smoothing

soothing

sparkling

staging

stirring

suing

swaying

teaching

teething

tempting

throwing

toughens

vegans

weighing

westling

buckskins

pigskins

basting

boasting

bolting

casings

coasting

coaxing

evening

facings

fainting

fielding

folding

golding

holding

hosting

machines

makings

molting

moulding

musings

painting

pointing

posting

roasting

russians

scolding

seedling

takings

tasting

toasting

wasting

weakling

wielding

yielding

hamstring

offspring

wellspring

teachings

shoestring

bygones

cocoons

eggnog

picnic

pygmies

technic

regimes

eggnogs

picnics

askance

technics

vaccines

assumes

hogans

icons

peacenik

raccoons

regains

technique

tycoons

lozenge

legumes

licensed

techniques

basins

beacons

beckons

becomes

caissons

chickens

cosens

cuisines

deacons

essence

isms

lessens

lessons

license

lichens

likens

loosens

lykens

masons

nuisance

pecans

poisons

possums

quickens

racemes

raisins

reasons

reckons

resins

schisms

rhizomes

seasons

thickens

tokens

wagons

weakens

asians

cajuns

cushions

fashions

legions

lesions

missions

oceans

sessions

visions

passions

pigeons

regions

rejoins

exhumes

gascons

maxims

saxons

sequence

sequins

vacuums

exchange

dismays

mesons

resumes

mishmash

cognac

3 syllable words

annoying

buffeting

canoeing

coloring

covering

dialing

stuttering

suffering

toweling

cowering

flowering

glowering

souring

towering

badgering

gathering

mothering

alerting

aligning

abiding

adoring

alluring

amazing

appalling

annealing

ballooning

baffling

asserting

assuming

appealing

becoming

beginning

battening

beguiling

blossoming

blundering

blustering

bottling

bubbling

bustling

cackling

channeling

colouring

concurring

conveying

cradling

crippling

cycling

deadening

deafening

debating

divining

doubling

drizzling

fastening

galloping

glistening

governing

happening

leavening

lessening

leveling

lightening

listening

lumbering

maddening

meddling

middling

modeling

mottling

muscling

ongoing

opening

opposing

outgoing

paneling

peddling

piddling

polluting

proceeding

profiting

promising

provoking

quarreling

quickening

raveling

reasoning

reckoning

riveting

scribbling

sickening

sizzling

stiffening

sweetening

tabling

threatening

thundering

ticketing

whitening

vomiting

thickening

settling

traversing

softening

reducing

seasoning

undoing

undying

bungling

arriving

battering

bettering

bickering

billowing

bullying

carousing

copying

diapering

assuring

carrying

chattering

damaging

doddering

cushioning

caressing

dairying

conjuring

fingering

machining

echoing

belonging

churchgoing

conquering

lingering

maturing

glimmering

pachinko

vanishing

jockeying

polishing

wrongdoing

flattering

following

ironing

ravishing

lettering

offering

tinkering

mellowing

narrowing

peppering

pickering

pitying

powdering

scattering

varying

watering

winnowing

adjoining

seagoing

shadowing

shimmering

smattering

soldering

yellowing

abounding

according

accusing

affecting

alarming

amusing

approving

ascending

aspiring

bloodletting

bloodsucking

bumbling

bundling

butchering

carpeting

comforting

commanding

commuting

complying

composing

conceding

concerning

confiding

connecting

conserving

consoling

consuming

counseling

crocheting

dampening

darkening

degrading

disguising

dissecting

dwindling

erupting

feathering

fondling

gambling

gardening

hardening

incoming

issuing

lamenting

layering

life-giving

lowering

marketing

measuring

misgiving

mumbling

nourishing

observing

offsetting

oncoming

outfitting

parceling

pardoning

patrolling

pronouncing

recording

regarding

rumbling

scaffolding

scrambling

shortening

succeeding

trembling

trumpeting

tumbling

typesetting

underling

unfailing

unfeeling

unwilling

unwitting

uprising

upsetting

wagering

weathering

withering

scavenging

tinkling

twinkling

arresting

befitting

believing

besetting

correcting

delighting

marshaling

matchmaking

blistering

centering

deserving

approaching

designing

detailing

blanketing

carjacking

challenging

diverting

engaging

discerning

dividing

factoring

faltering

forbidding

forgiving

laundering

lawmaking

opining

ordering

plastering

emitting

ensuing

entering

highflying

laughingly

outlying

pilfering

pondering

presiding

obliging

relieving

converging

prevailing

profiling

rendering

repeating

retiring

reversing

reviving

seducing

surpassing

surrounding

surviving

tempering

visiting

wandering

well-being

whispering

abducting

absorbing

accenting

afflicting

astounding

attracting

childbearing

complaining

completing

compounding

conforming

confounding

confusing

consulting

convincing

disgusting

dumbfounding

engraving

engrossing

exacting

exhausting

existing

exulting

frustrating

harvesting

insulting

shoplifting

shortcoming

strengthening

tormenting

unbending

unsparing

unyielding

anything

besieging

diverging

finishing

rejoicing

sojourning

soldiering

journeying

laboring

surveying

tailoring

tapering

favoring

flavoring

forthcoming

papering

neighboring

neutering

motoring

murmuring

admiring

backbiting

blackmailing

bookkeeping

bullfighting

campaigning

declining

decreasing

defusing

departing

descending

despairing

disarming

disengage

dissenting

dissolving

downsizing

dressmaking

emptying

endearing

enticing

equating

erecting

exceeding

exciting

foreboding

forwarding

good-looking

housekeeping

housewarming

imposing

infighting

inserting

invading

inviting

kidnapping

lactating

misleading

mistaking

nerve-racking

networking

outpouring

persisting

reclining

relapsing

resisting

revolving

sleepwalking

surprising

typewriting

languishing

mackenzie

conflicting

interesting

casinos

unthinking

masonic

mechanic

beholding

brainwashing

bushwhacking

everything

packinghouse

refreshing

warehousing

pervading

magnesia

freewheeling

landholding

jokingly

locating

preceding

unflinching

crusading

thanksgiving

backsliding

broadcasting

contacting

disengaged

dissembling

distressing

enclosing

enduring

enlisting

excepting

expelling

expiring

forecasting

hairdressing

handwriting

hardworking

impending

imploring

importing

improving

increasing

inspiring

installing

investing

laughingstock

misspelling

perplexing

reflecting

respecting

shipbuilding

constricting

agonist

enchanting

bassoonist

licenses

arranging

awakens

beseeching

hygienist

likenesses

nuisances

mechanics

heartbreaking

ascension

asuncion

eavesdropping

easterling

contracting

railroading

machinist

distracting

groundbreaking

revolting

landscaping

outstanding

technician

imprinting

expanding

exploring

transporting

agnostic

agonies

agonists

cognizance

cognizant

diagnose

disincline

hygienists

laconic

pessimists

licensure

passenger

machinists

painstaking

eugenic

technicians

messenger

pessimist

vacancies

agnostics

dismissal

begonias

iguanas

licensees

technical

weaknesses

businesses

dismisses

dismissive

agencies

eugenics

lozenges

messengers

passengers

misconceive

sequences

businesslike

businessman

dismissals

technicals

disconnect

mechanize

decency

agonize

licensee

licenser

vacancy

agency

cogency

disconnects

regency

reconcile

agonized

eskimos

maximize

magnesite

reconstruct

deconstruct

reconciles

disconcert

equinox

technocrat

agincourt

bookmaker

misconstrue

museums

technocrats

fijians

reconquer

issuance

misconstrues

axioms

bookmakers

dishonest

dissension

taskmaster

exchanger

exchangers

liaisons

pacemaker

peacemaker

pacemakers

peacemakers

exchanges

4 syllable words

delegating

diagnosing

mitigating

pioneering

realizing

gratifying

notifying

edifying

oceangoing

speechifying

agonizing

annotating

appetizing

awakening

disabling

disappearing

fascinating

hesitating

irritating

bicycling

detonating

developing

dominating

domineering

laminating

nonrecurring

overcoming

occupying

oscillating

persevering

underlying

suffocating

unassuming

unavailing

vacillating

agitating

parachuting

integrating

discouraging

petitioning

liberating

moderating

operating

reentering

separating

aggravating

captivating

disappointing

activating

barbecuing

circulating

coexisting

denigrating

devastating

disapproving

embarrassing

emphasizing

encircling

enlightening

enveloping

maximizing

mountaineering

examining

palpitating

patronizing

penetrating

underpinning

undertaking

underwriting

unremitting

unbecoming

unbelieving

admonishing

astonishing

conditioning

disengaging

engineering

fluctuating

inheriting

inhibiting

merchandising

partitioning

undulating

babysitting

fireproofing

bewildering

inquiring

never-ending

obviating

overbearing

overlapping

overpowering

condescending

calculating

centralizing

corresponding

disconcerting

complicating

encompassing

executing

unrelenting

encouraging

energizing

overhauling

disheartening

diagnostic

overarching

registering

advertising

dispiriting

entertaining

everlasting

interlocking

interviewing

overlying

overwhelming

understanding

waterproofing

diagnostics

diagnoses

agonizes

mechanical

mechanically

mechanism

paganism

pessimism

reconsider

legislating

fingerprinting

disparaging

enterprising

implicating

intersecting

issuances

overflowing

overrating

notwithstanding

overruling

maximizes

mechanisms

pessimistic

disengagement

distributing

messianic

businesswoman

distinguishing

oceanic

disconnected

technically

technicolor

disconnection

misconception

reconstructive

disenchantment

deconstruction

reconstruction

misconceptions

reconstructions

dishonesty

desensitize

dishonestly

exchangeable

desensitized

iconoclast

magnesium

Words that rhyme with the word hugging

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
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