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

blocking

clocking

cocking

docking

knocking

mocking

rocking

shocking

stocking

bucking

calming

boxing

sharking

awning

backing

barring

parking

caulking

ducking

marking

chopping

clogging

clucking

codding

colling

cracking

dropping

falling

flogging

fucking

hopping

jarring

jogging

liking

lopping

nodding

packing

plodding

popping

racking

sacking

scarring

slotting

smacking

sobbing

sopping

stacking

stopping

striking

sucking

tacking

talking

topping

trucking

viking

walking

wapping

whacking

whopping

yachting

lodging

washing

sparkling

acting

arming

asking

bonding

buckling

carling

carping

carving

charming

crackling

darling

duckling

farming

golfing

harping

parting

romping

snarling

sparling

starling

starting

suckling

tackling

wanting

aching

bagging

baking

batting

biding

biting

boring

brawling

breaking

broking

browning

browsing

budding

butting

calling

choking

climbing

cloaking

clouding

clowning

coming

cooking

creaking

crossing

culling

cunning

cutting

damning

dawning

dicing

dining

diving

doubting

dragging

driving

drugging

drumming

dubbing

eking

fighting

filing

fining

firing

flagging

flooding

flooring

freaking

gadding

galling

gassing

grouting

gunning

having

hiding

hogging

housing

hugging

humming

icing

jerking

joking

jutting

kicking

lagging

lapping

laughing

leaking

licking

lighting

lining

logging

looking

loring

loving

madding

making

mapping

matting

mining

mugging

nagging

napping

nutting

offing

outing

padding

panning

passing

peaking

picking

piling

pining

piping

plugging

plumbing

poking

pouting

priming

prowling

puffing

putting

quaking

raking

riding

rising

roaring

rousing

rubbing

running

sagging

shining

shoring

shrouding

siding

sighting

signing

sizing

slapping

sliding

slighting

smoking

snapping

sneaking

snoring

soaking

soaring

speaking

stalling

sticking

strapping

striving

stroking

strutting

stuffing

stunning

taking

tanning

ticking

tiding

tossing

tricking

twining

waking

walling

whiting

wiring

working

wrecking

writing

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

arching

banking

farthing

franking

marching

nanking

planking

spanking

buying

crying

drawing

drying

dyeing

dying

flying

frying

lawing

lying

mowing

prying

sighing

trying

tying

vying

banging

blushing

brushing

catching

clanging

couching

crashing

crushing

dashing

flashing

flushing

gushing

hanging

hatching

judging

lashing

latching

longing

matching

nothing

patching

scratching

slouching

thrashing

tithing

touching

banding

binding

blasting

blinding

bounding

forming

founding

casting

chanting

faulting

forcing

frosting

funding

grafting

heckling

hoarding

glancing

boarding

bouncing

bunting

camping

coaxing

costing

coupling

coursing

cuddling

dancing

daunting

drafting

finding

fixing

grappling

grasping

grinding

grounding

horning

hounding

hunting

jumping

lamping

landing

lasting

lightning

lumping

malting

minding

morning

morphing

mounting

mourning

ousting

panting

planting

pouncing

pounding

punkin

rafting

rifling

rounding

pumping

salting

sapling

scalping

shafting

shuffling

shunting

slanting

sounding

sporting

stamping

standing

storming

straddling

tamping

taunting

thrusting

thumping

trifling

trusting

vaulting

warling

warming

warning

warping

wilding

winding

weakling

ailing

airing

baiting

beading

beaming

bearing

beating

bedding

belling

bidding

billing

blaring

blazing

bleeding

bleeping

blessing

blooming

boating

boiling

bolling

boning

booming

booting

boozing

bowling

bracing

braiding

braving

breeding

briefing

brimming

broiling

brooding

bruting

burning

burping

caning

casing

ceiling

chafing

chasing

chilling

chipping

chirping

churning

cleaning

clearing

clipping

closing

coating

coiling

combing

cooling

coping

craving

creeping

cribbing

crooning

curing

curling

daring

dealing

derring

digging

dilling

dipping

doting

draining

dressing

drilling

dripping

dueling

during

dwelling

earning

earring

easing

eating

erring

facing

fading

failing

feeding

feeling

fehling

feigning

filling

fitting

flaming

flaring

fleeting

fleming

flitting

floating

foaming

foiling

footing

framing

freezing

fruiting

fuming

gaming

gearing

getting

ginning

girding

giving

glaring

glazing

gloaming

grading

grating

grayling

grazing

greening

greeting

grieving

grooming

grouping

heading

healing

hearing

heating

heaving

herring

hilling

hissing

hitting

holing

homing

hurling

hurting

inning

jailing

jeering

jetting

keeling

keeping

kenning

killing

knitting

lading

leading

leaning

leaping

learning

leasing

legging

lemming

living

loading

loaning

looming

looping

losing

mailing

meaning

meeting

milling

missing

mooring

moving

musing

muting

netting

nipping

nosing

nursing

oozing

pacing

pairing

paring

paving

pegging

petting

phasing

phrasing

plating

pleading

pleasing

poling

polling

pooling

pressing

pruning

pudding

quilling

racing

railing

raising

raving

reading

ribbing

rigging

rolling

roofing

roving

ruling

sailing

saving

scaling

scheming

schilling

schooling

scraping

screaming

screening

seating

seeling

seeming

seizing

serving

setting

shading

shaving

shearing

shedding

sheeting

shelling

shilling

shipping

shirting

shooting

shredding

sitting

skilling

skimming

skirting

slating

sledding

sleeping

slitting

sloping

smelling

sneezing

sniffing

sparing

spelling

sperling

spinning

spurling

squeezing

stating

staving

stealing

steering

sterling

stooping

stowing

straining

streaming

stripping

suiting

swearing

sweating

sweeping

sweeting

swelling

swimming

swooning

tailing

teaming

teeming

telling

thrilling

tipping

tooling

tracing

trading

trailing

training

trilling

trimming

tripping

tubing

tuning

turning

veering

veiling

voiding

voting

wading

waiting

waning

wearing

weaving

webbing

wedding

weeding

weeping

whaling

wheeling

whipping

whirling

whooping

willing

winning

wording

yearling

yearning

yelling

branching

bulging

drinking

forging

launching

longings

lunching

scorching

shrinking

sinking

something

stinking

thinking

aging

bathing

beijing

being

birthing

bitching

bleaching

blowing

blueing

bluing

bowing

breathing

breeching

brewing

chewing

clothing

coaching

cooing

crowing

dishing

doing

dumpling

edging

etching

fetching

fishing

flowing

foundling

fraying

glowing

going

groundling

growing

handling

knowing

laying

loathing

lowing

merging

owing

paging

paying

peeing

pitching

playing

plaything

praying

preaching

purging

pushing

raging

rambling

ringing

saying

screwing

searching

seeing

sewing

sheathing

showing

singing

smoothing

soothing

springing

staging

stinging

stirring

stitching

stretching

suing

swaying

switching

teaching

teething

throwing

weighing

wishing

witching

wringing

hangings

angling

inkling

launchings

sprinkling

basting

belting

bending

blending

boasting

bolting

breasting

building

coasting

conjoin

cresting

ending

evening

fainting

fencing

fielding

folding

gilding

glinting

golding

helping

holding

hosting

kipling

lending

lifting

listing

longan

melting

mincing

molting

moulding

painting

pelting

pending

piercing

pimping

pointing

posting

printing

quilting

resting

roasting

scolding

scrimping

seedling

shelving

shifting

sibling

smelting

spending

squinting

stripling

tasting

testing

tilting

toasting

twisting

vesting

wasting

whistling

whitling

wielding

wincing

wrestling

yielding

hamstring

offspring

earthling

fledgling

nonsense

pinching

conjoined

conscience

shoestring

sanguine

tempting

kindling

nestling

westling

cancan

chanson

monsoon

wellspring

mankind

monsoons

unkind

gingham

unkempt

mankinds

samson

damson

kansan

rincon

ringneck

ginghams

sunken

ginseng

mansion

mangan

hangman

moonshine

kansans

townsman

benign

demesne

tangent

mansions

income

winsome

tangents

insane

unknown

unknowns

unseen

knickknack

consume

ransom

dungeon

inchon

luncheon

sunshine

consent

consumed

consumes

encamp

ensnare

incense

incomes

kinsman

knickknacks

ransoms

unsound

ancient

dungeons

luncheons

penguin

pungent

consents

ensconce

ensnares

ensnarl

incensed

longhand

ancients

penguins

benzene

benzine

enzyme

lonesome

engine

enjoin

pension

tension

enzymes

enchant

henchman

engines

penchant

pensions

tensions

vengeance

3 syllable words

copying

dialing

doddering

following

soldering

toweling

cowering

flowering

glowering

souring

conquering

towering

mannequin

bloodsucking

darkening

marketing

blossoming

bubbling

fastening

happening

raveling

vomiting

battening

bottling

galloping

softening

cycling

divining

doubling

wandering

adoring

aligning

appalling

bustling

cackling

concurring

factoring

lawmaking

maddening

mottling

muscling

pondering

juggling

lightening

modeling

ongoing

paneling

abiding

baffling

channeling

quarreling

profiting

promising

provoking

carjacking

annoying

arriving

battering

bickering

conjuring

mannequins

buffeting

polishing

canoeing

carousing

carrying

chattering

coloring

covering

diapering

echoing

flattering

ironing

offering

pickering

powdering

scattering

shadowing

smattering

stuttering

suffering

watering

abducting

attracting

contacting

hardworking

abounding

according

accusing

admiring

affecting

alarming

aspiring

backbiting

badgering

blackmailing

bumbling

bundling

carpeting

commanding

confiding

connecting

counseling

dampening

departing

disarming

dissecting

downsizing

fondling

gambling

gardening

gathering

hardening

housekeeping

housewarming

lactating

layering

lowering

mothering

mumbling

nerve-racking

oncoming

outpouring

parceling

pardoning

pronouncing

recording

regarding

revolving

rumbling

scaffolding

scrambling

shortening

sleepwalking

succeeding

trumpeting

tumbling

typewriting

uprising

alerting

alluring

amazing

colouring

conveying

correcting

deadening

deafening

debating

glistening

governing

highflying

blanketing

brainwashing

ballooning

appealing

challenging

marshaling

becoming

beguiling

matchmaking

scavenging

agreeing

annealing

asserting

assuming

blundering

bushwhacking

blustering

cradling

diverting

dividing

drizzling

faltering

crippling

delighting

designing

leavening

leveling

obliging

laundering

lessening

listening

locating

lumbering

meddling

middling

opening

opining

opposing

ordering

outgoing

outlying

plastering

polluting

peddling

piddling

presiding

proceeding

profiling

quickening

reasoning

bungling

reckoning

reducing

retiring

reviving

riveting

contracting

heartbreaking

scribbling

seasoning

settling

sizzling

surpassing

sickening

stiffening

surrounding

surviving

sweetening

tabling

thickening

threatening

thundering

ticketing

traversing

undoing

undying

whitening

absorbing

accenting

afflicting

astounding

backsliding

broadcasting

compounding

conforming

confounding

consulting

dumbfounding

exacting

forecasting

handwriting

harvesting

shoplifting

shortcoming

adjoining

assuring

belonging

cushioning

damaging

diverging

longingly

machining

maturing

ravishing

tinkering

vanishing

wrongdoing

dairying

forthcoming

bullying

caressing

billowing

bettering

favoring

flavoring

glimmering

journeying

laboring

lettering

mellowing

motoring

papering

murmuring

narrowing

neighboring

neutering

peppering

pitying

tapering

seagoing

shimmering

surveying

tailoring

varying

winnowing

yellowing

amusing

approving

ascending

bloodletting

bookkeeping

bullfighting

campaigning

comforting

commuting

complying

composing

conceding

concerning

conserving

consoling

consuming

declining

decreasing

disguising

dissolving

dressmaking

dwindling

enticing

equating

erecting

erupting

exceeding

exciting

foreboding

forwarding

good-looking

incoming

infighting

inviting

kidnapping

lamenting

life-giving

mistaking

networking

observing

offsetting

outfitting

patrolling

reclining

relapsing

surprising

trembling

typesetting

underling

unfailing

unfeeling

unwilling

unwitting

upsetting

eavesdropping

butchering

groundbreaking

distracting

landscaping

outstanding

feathering

conflicting

crocheting

transporting

jamaican

monism

nourishing

wagering

weathering

withering

unthinking

issuing

measuring

approaching

converging

tinkling

twinkling

warehousing

arresting

thanksgiving

befitting

beginning

believing

besetting

blistering

centering

commission

crusading

deserving

detailing

discerning

emitting

ensuing

entering

forbidding

forgiving

freewheeling

pervading

prevailing

rendering

repeating

pilfering

preceding

relieving

reversing

tempering

seducing

visiting

well-being

whispering

childbearing

complaining

completing

confusing

consciences

convincing

disgusting

enclosing

excepting

exhausting

expelling

expiring

exulting

frustrating

imploring

importing

increasing

inspiring

installing

insulting

omniscient

painstaking

perplexing

reflecting

respecting

strengthening

tormenting

unbending

unsparing

unyielding

constricting

anything

arranging

besieging

fingering

finishing

jamaicans

lingering

sojourning

soldiering

enchanting

churchgoing

monisms

rejoicing

uncommon

beseeching

expanding

interesting

commissioned

languishing

commissions

connexion

defusing

degrading

descending

despairing

dissenting

easterling

emptying

endearing

imposing

misgiving

invading

exploring

inserting

misleading

persisting

railroading

resisting

revolting

beholding

consonant

engaging

enigma

everything

jansenist

keynesian

landholding

refreshing

uncanny

unconcern

unflinching

banishment

dissembling

connexions

distressing

enduring

engraving

existing

management

engrossing

impending

angina

long-winded

enlisting

hairdressing

improving

investing

omission

shipbuilding

remission

emission

misspelling

punishment

consonants

consummate

keynesians

concentrate

jansenists

tumescent

unconcerned

imprinting

managements

punishments

emissions

engineer

omissions

remissions

concentrates

encampment

insincere

ensemble

consummates

unison

honeycomb

jainism

engineers

encampments

enchanted

concentric

ensembles

tangential

uncomplete

encumber

ungainly

unisons

manganese

ringmaster

conjunction

amazement

incentive

conjunctions

nincompoop

amazon

amusement

benignly

coenzyme

consumer

limousine

nincompoops

imagine

phoenician

sunshiny

amusements

inasmuch

amazons

consumers

encounter

limousines

renaissance

senescence

innocence

innocent

unseemly

injunction

imagined

imagines

ingenue

phoenicians

encounters

injunctions

innocents

congenial

engenders

pungently

incomplete

incumbent

consumption

denizen

incumbents

venison

pensioner

denizens

benjamin

enchanter

engender

pensioners

enchanters

enjoyment

enjoyments

enchantment

4 syllable words

nonrecurring

occupying

suffocating

gratifying

moderating

operating

pioneering

realizing

interlocking

barbecuing

awakening

bicycling

fascinating

obviating

oscillating

unassuming

vacillating

unavailing

agonizing

dominating

domineering

laminating

appetizing

annotating

diagnosing

petitioning

agitating

complicating

overarching

edifying

notifying

palpitating

aggravating

enlightening

activating

advertising

emphasizing

underwriting

maximizing

patronizing

unbecoming

unbelieving

undertaking

speechifying

admonishing

astonishing

undulating

conditioning

fluctuating

merchandising

partitioning

delegating

detonating

developing

disappearing

disabling

fireproofing

hesitating

inquiring

irritating

menacingly

mitigating

overcoming

overlapping

overpowering

persevering

underlying

calculating

centralizing

condescending

corresponding

oceangoing

discouraging

energizing

encouraging

noncommittal

disheartening

overhauling

parachuting

zionism

captivating

circulating

commissioner

devastating

disappointing

disapproving

embarrassing

encircling

enveloping

everlasting

examining

homogeny

liberating

mountaineering

nonessential

overlying

penetrating

reentering

separating

underpinning

understanding

unremitting

waterproofing

concomitant

manzanilla

inheriting

engineering

inhibiting

disconcerting

encompassing

enterprising

executing

implicating

unrelenting

integrating

intersecting

notwithstanding

babysitting

commissioners

homogenize

bewildering

never-ending

overflowing

overrating

overbearing

overruling

conjunctiva

noncompliance

jansenism

noncombatant

registering

denigrating

dispiriting

entertaining

nonconformist

consummation

noncombatants

coexisting

homogenized

interviewing

noncommercial

overwhelming

disengaging

disparaging

nonsensical

unconverted

consonantal

legislating

incinerate

nonconformists

encomium

concentrated

concentration

insinuate

encomiums

distributing

fingerprinting

inconsistent

monogamy

insensitive

insinuates

distinguishing

concentrations

tangentially

anaconda

inconclusive

numismatist

encompasses

numismatists

gymnasium

insanity

incompetents

consensual

consumable

gymnasiums

congenital

inseminate

innocently

incumbency

insensible

ingeniously

incantation

incandescent

incontinent

incompetent

inconstancy

inconvenient

inconvenience

7 syllable words

Words that rhyme with the word knocking

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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