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

gassing

passing

crashing

dashing

flashing

lashing

thrashing

backing

blessing

damning

dressing

dancing

bagging

batting

bracing

casing

chasing

cracking

crossing

dicing

dragging

facing

flagging

gadding

having

icing

lagging

lapping

laughing

madding

mapping

matting

nagging

napping

nursing

pacing

packing

padding

pressing

sacking

slapping

asking

panning

racing

racking

sagging

smacking

snapping

grasping

stacking

strapping

blasting

tanning

glancing

tossing

tracing

whacking

casting

tacking

lasting

lashings

banging

blushing

brushing

catching

clanging

crushing

flushing

gushing

hanging

hatching

latching

matching

patching

scratching

washing

acting

banding

basting

bouncing

boxing

breasting

camping

casings

chanting

costing

coursing

crackling

cresting

drafting

facings

fencing

forcing

frosting

grafting

grappling

lamping

landing

ousting

panting

planting

pouncing

rafting

resting

sapling

scalping

shafting

slanting

stamping

standing

straddling

tackling

tamping

tasting

testing

thrusting

trusting

vesting

wasting

wrestling

aching

ailing

airing

awning

baiting

baking

barring

bearing

bedding

belling

biding

biting

blaring

blazing

blocking

boring

braiding

braving

brawling

breaking

browning

browsing

bucking

budding

burning

burping

butting

calling

calming

caning

caulking

chafing

chirping

chopping

churning

climbing

clocking

clogging

clouding

clowning

clucking

cocking

codding

colling

coming

craving

culling

cunning

curling

cutting

daring

dawning

derring

dining

diving

docking

doubting

draining

driving

dropping

drugging

drumming

dubbing

ducking

dwelling

earning

erring

fading

failing

falling

fehling

feigning

fighting

filing

fining

firing

flaming

flaring

fleming

flogging

flooding

flooring

framing

fucking

galling

gaming

getting

girding

glaring

glazing

grading

grating

grayling

grazing

grouting

gunning

heading

herring

hiding

hissing

hogging

hopping

housing

hugging

humming

hurling

hurting

jailing

jarring

jerking

jetting

jogging

jutting

kenning

knocking

lading

learning

leasing

legging

lemming

lighting

liking

lining

logging

lopping

loring

loving

mailing

making

mining

missing

mocking

mugging

netting

nodding

nutting

offing

outing

pairing

paring

paving

pegging

petting

phasing

phrasing

piling

pining

piping

plating

plodding

plugging

plumbing

popping

pouting

priming

prowling

puffing

putting

quaking

railing

raising

raking

raving

riding

rising

roaring

rocking

rousing

rubbing

running

sailing

saving

scaling

scarring

scraping

serving

setting

shading

shaving

shedding

shelling

shining

shirting

shocking

shoring

shredding

shrouding

siding

sighting

signing

sizing

skirting

slating

sledding

sliding

slighting

slotting

smelling

snoring

soaring

sobbing

sopping

sparing

spelling

sperling

spurling

stalling

stating

staving

sterling

stocking

stopping

straining

striking

striving

strutting

stuffing

stunning

sucking

swearing

sweating

swelling

tailing

taking

talking

telling

tiding

topping

trading

trailing

training

trucking

turning

twining

veiling

viking

wading

waiting

waking

walking

walling

waning

wapping

wearing

webbing

wedding

whaling

whirling

whiting

whopping

wiring

wording

working

wrecking

writing

yachting

yearling

yearning

yelling

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

banking

branching

franking

nanking

planking

spanking

buying

crying

drawing

drying

dyeing

dying

flying

fraying

frying

lawing

laying

lying

mowing

paying

playing

praying

prying

saying

sighing

stirring

swaying

trying

tying

vying

weighing

aging

bathing

beijing

birthing

couching

dishing

edging

etching

fetching

fishing

judging

lakins

lodging

longing

merging

nothing

paging

plaything

purging

pushing

raging

searching

slouching

staging

stretching

tithing

touching

hamstring

wishing

handling

nestling

rambling

westling

arming

belting

bending

binding

blending

blinding

boarding

boasting

bonding

bounding

buckling

bunting

carling

carping

carving

charming

coasting

coaxing

coupling

cuddling

darling

daunting

dockings

duckling

ending

fainting

farming

fashions

faulting

finding

fixing

forming

founding

funding

golfing

grinding

grounding

harping

angling

heckling

helping

hoarding

horning

hosting

hounding

housings

hunting

leggings

makings

malting

marking

jumping

lending

lightning

listing

lumping

melting

mincing

minding

morning

morphing

mounting

passions

mourning

muggings

painting

parking

parting

pelting

pending

piercing

posting

pounding

pumping

rifling

roasting

romping

rounding

salting

sharking

shelving

shuffling

shunting

smelting

snarling

sounding

sparling

spending

sporting

starling

starting

storming

suckling

takings

taunting

twisting

toasting

vaulting

thumping

trifling

vikings

warling

wincing

wanting

warning

wilding

warming

warping

whistling

winding

beading

beaming

beating

bidding

billing

bleeding

bleeping

blooming

boating

boiling

bolling

boning

booming

booting

boozing

bowling

breeding

briefing

brimming

broiling

broking

brooding

bruting

ceiling

chilling

chipping

choking

cleaning

clearing

clipping

cloaking

closing

coating

coiling

combing

cooking

cooling

coping

creaking

creeping

cribbing

crooning

curing

dealing

digging

dilling

dipping

doting

drilling

dripping

dueling

during

earring

easing

eating

eking

feeding

feeling

filling

fitting

fleeting

flitting

floating

foaming

foiling

footing

freaking

freezing

fruiting

fuming

gearing

ginning

giving

gloaming

greening

greeting

grieving

grooming

grouping

healing

hearing

heating

heaving

hilling

hitting

holing

homing

inning

jeering

joking

keeling

keeping

kicking

killing

knitting

leading

leaking

leaning

leaping

licking

living

loading

loaning

looking

looming

looping

losing

meaning

meeting

milling

mooring

moving

musing

muting

nipping

nosing

oozing

peaking

picking

pleading

pleasing

poking

poling

polling

pooling

pruning

pudding

quilling

reading

ribbing

rigging

rolling

roofing

roving

ruling

scheming

schilling

schooling

screaming

screening

seating

seeling

seeming

seizing

shearing

sheeting

shilling

shipping

shooting

sitting

skilling

skimming

sleeping

slitting

sloping

smoking

sneaking

sneezing

sniffing

soaking

speaking

spinning

squeezing

stealing

steering

sticking

stooping

stowing

streaming

stripping

stroking

suiting

sweeping

sweeting

swimming

swooning

teaming

teeming

thrilling

ticking

tipping

tooling

tricking

trilling

trimming

tripping

tubing

tuning

veering

voiding

voting

weaving

weeding

weeping

wheeling

whipping

whooping

willing

winning

earthling

launching

arching

bulging

bushings

farthing

fledgling

forging

gascons

lunching

marching

succinct

saxons

scorching

something

offspring

vaccines

wellspring

akins

basins

being

bitching

bleaching

blowing

blueing

bluing

bowing

breathing

breeching

brewing

caissons

chewing

clothing

coaching

cooing

crowing

doing

dumpling

essence

fixings

flowing

foundling

glowing

going

groundling

growing

knowing

lessens

lessons

license

loathing

lowing

masons

owing

peeing

pitching

preaching

ringing

screwing

seeing

sewing

sheathing

shoestring

showing

singing

smoothing

soothing

sparkling

springing

stinging

stitching

suing

switching

teaching

teething

tempting

throwing

wagons

witching

wringing

buckskins

bolting

building

evening

fielding

folding

gilding

glinting

golding

holding

kipling

lifting

machines

molting

moulding

musings

pickings

pimping

pointing

printing

quilting

riggings

russians

scolding

scrimping

seedling

sessions

shifting

sibling

squinting

stripling

tilting

weakling

whitling

wielding

yielding

shrinking

licensed

sinking

stinking

teachings

thinking

drinking

maxims

pinching

kindling

begins

biggins

cosens

cousins

dozens

lichens

likens

likins

loosens

lykens

nuisance

peacenik

possums

raccoons

racemes

technic

toughens

inkling

pigskins

sprinkling

cushions

lozenge

oceans

technics

icons

assumes

bygones

eggnog

picnic

technique

tycoons

regimes

exchange

against

mishmash

picnics

vacuums

eggnogs

exhumes

beacons

beckons

chickens

cocoons

cuisines

deacons

dismays

lagoons

pecans

poisons

pygmies

quickens

raisins

reasons

reckons

resins

rhizomes

seasons

thickens

tokens

vegans

weakens

asians

cajuns

legions

lesions

missions

pigeons

regions

rejoins

visions

askance

legumes

sequence

sequins

becomes

cognac

hogans

isms

magness

mesons

regains

resumes

schisms

techniques

3 syllable words

battering

caressing

carrying

chattering

flattering

ironing

scattering

shadowing

smattering

cowering

flowering

glowering

layering

ravishing

souring

towering

vanishing

badgering

gathering

nourishing

relapsing

baffling

asserting

ensuing

arresting

alerting

amazing

assuming

factoring

galloping

happening

governing

battening

debating

proceeding

bustling

cackling

colouring

promising

raveling

reducing

reversing

maddening

muscling

blossoming

blustering

channeling

lessening

diverting

lawmaking

laughingly

paneling

bettering

doddering

echoing

jockeying

journeying

laboring

lettering

stuttering

assuring

surveying

tailoring

tapering

damaging

annoying

arriving

buffeting

canoeing

carousing

coloring

copying

covering

dairying

dialing

diapering

favoring

flavoring

following

mellowing

murmuring

narrowing

neighboring

offering

papering

peppering

powdering

soldering

polishing

suffering

toweling

diverging

machining

watering

varying

yellowing

accenting

backsliding

broadcasting

forecasting

admiring

affecting

ascending

aspiring

backbiting

blackmailing

bloodletting

bloodsucking

campaigning

comforting

commanding

conceding

concerning

connecting

conserving

consoling

consuming

counseling

crocheting

dampening

dissecting

downsizing

dressmaking

enticing

feathering

forwarding

gambling

housekeeping

housewarming

issuing

kidnapping

lactating

lamenting

lowering

measuring

mothering

nerve-racking

observing

offsetting

parceling

persisting

pronouncing

scaffolding

scrambling

succeeding

typesetting

underling

unfailing

upsetting

wagering

weathering

carjacking

abiding

challenging

adoring

agreeing

aligning

concurring

conveying

correcting

cradling

crippling

crusading

cycling

deadening

deafening

delighting

deserving

designing

detailing

discerning

faltering

forbidding

forgiving

glistening

ongoing

opening

opining

ordering

outgoing

outlying

passenger

peddling

pervading

piddling

polluting

converging

opposing

pondering

blanketing

preceding

presiding

prevailing

profiling

profiting

provoking

quarreling

quickening

brainwashing

reasoning

reckoning

riveting

wandering

marshaling

matchmaking

rendering

retiring

reviving

scribbling

seasoning

seducing

whispering

bushwhacking

settling

well-being

whitening

alluring

annealing

appalling

appealing

beguiling

blistering

bubbling

becoming

blundering

refreshing

transporting

packinghouse

scavenging

ballooning

besetting

bottling

centering

landscaping

entering

highflying

juggling

lightening

listening

locating

lumbering

meddling

mottling

softening

stiffening

surrounding

surviving

tabling

thundering

ticketing

undoing

undying

languishing

dividing

divining

doubling

drizzling

laundering

leavening

leveling

middling

modeling

sickening

sizzling

sweetening

tempering

thickening

threatening

vomiting

abducting

astounding

childbearing

attracting

thanksgiving

complaining

consulting

contacting

convincing

distressing

enlisting

exacting

excepting

exhausting

frustrating

hairdressing

handwriting

hardworking

harvesting

investing

laughingstock

painstaking

perplexing

tormenting

unbending

unsparing

adjoining

anything

arranging

axioms

belonging

beseeching

besieging

churchgoing

conjuring

conquering

cushioning

finishing

maturing

pachinko

rejoicing

sojourning

wrongdoing

shimmering

bullying

enchanting

seagoing

billowing

bickering

winnowing

neutering

pickering

motoring

glimmering

pitying

abounding

according

accusing

alarming

amusing

approving

bullfighting

bumbling

bundling

carpeting

commuting

complying

composing

confiding

darkening

declining

decreasing

degrading

departing

descending

despairing

disarming

disengage

disguising

dissenting

dissolving

dwindling

easterling

emptying

endearing

equating

erecting

erupting

exceeding

exciting

fondling

foreboding

gardening

hardening

incoming

infighting

inserting

invading

inviting

life-giving

marketing

misgiving

misleading

mistaking

mumbling

networking

oncoming

outfitting

outpouring

pardoning

passengers

patrolling

railroading

reclining

recording

regarding

resisting

revolving

rumbling

shortening

sleepwalking

surprising

trembling

trumpeting

tumbling

typewriting

unfeeling

unwilling

unwitting

uprising

contracting

distracting

groundbreaking

heartbreaking

outstanding

agonies

agonize

butchering

mechanic

interesting

casinos

expanding

licenser

masonic

withering

agnostic

approaching

bungling

engaging

everything

obliging

tinkling

twinkling

warehousing

landholding

befitting

beginning

believing

emitting

freewheeling

jokingly

licensure

magnesia

messenger

pilfering

relieving

repeating

visiting

absorbing

afflicting

completing

compounding

conforming

confounding

confusing

disengaged

disgusting

dissembling

dumbfounding

enclosing

enduring

engraving

engrossing

existing

expelling

expiring

exulting

impending

imploring

importing

increasing

inspiring

installing

insulting

misspelling

reflecting

respecting

shoplifting

shortcoming

strengthening

unyielding

constricting

lingering

maximize

soldiering

agnostics

licenses

bassoonist

likenesses

mechanics

fingering

forthcoming

awakens

nuisances

tinkering

agonist

agonized

good-looking

exploring

asuncion

eavesdropping

revolting

conflicting

imposing

messengers

bookkeeping

ascension

defusing

technician

unthinking

agonists

beholding

disincline

laconic

liaisons

pessimists

unflinching

improving

technicians

machinists

agincourt

eugenic

shipbuilding

businesses

dismissal

dismisses

dismissive

eskimos

hygienist

licensees

magnesite

pessimist

technical

vacancies

weaknesses

imprinting

agencies

dissension

eugenics

lozenges

cognizance

cognizant

disconcert

dismissals

hygienists

misconceive

taskmaster

technicals

disconnect

sequences

decency

licensee

mackenzie

museums

pacemaker

vacancy

agency

cogency

disconnects

exchanger

misconstrue

regency

reconcile

pacemakers

dishonest

deconstruct

exchangers

exchanges

misconstrues

reconstruct

businesslike

reconciles

mechanize

peacemaker

fijians

issuance

reconquer

begonias

peacemakers

iguanas

machinist

businessman

equinox

technocrats

diagnose

technocrat

bookmaker

bookmakers

4 syllable words

fascinating

vacillating

gratifying

moderating

operating

everlasting

maximizing

admonishing

agonizing

diagnosing

detonating

awakening

annotating

appetizing

babysitting

bicycling

delegating

dominating

fireproofing

laminating

oscillating

overlapping

hesitating

mitigating

obviating

irritating

persevering

suffocating

unavailing

underlying

unassuming

petitioning

agitating

parachuting

registering

edifying

liberating

notifying

pioneering

realizing

separating

advertising

aggravating

circulating

devastating

embarrassing

encircling

examining

palpitating

penetrating

undertaking

underwriting

activating

captivating

emphasizing

underpinning

waterproofing

speechifying

astonishing

conditioning

fluctuating

legislating

partitioning

undulating

developing

disabling

disappearing

inquiring

domineering

nonrecurring

never-ending

occupying

overbearing

overcoming

overflowing

overpowering

overrating

overruling

calculating

complicating

condescending

corresponding

encompassing

executing

integrating

intersecting

unrelenting

encouraging

energizing

discouraging

maximizes

oceangoing

messianic

overarching

overhauling

barbecuing

coexisting

denigrating

disappointing

disapproving

dispiriting

enlightening

entertaining

enveloping

interlocking

interviewing

mountaineering

oceanic

overlying

overwhelming

patronizing

reentering

unbecoming

unbelieving

understanding

unremitting

disengaging

disparaging

inhibiting

agonizes

inheriting

merchandising

magnesium

mechanical

engineering

pessimism

mechanically

reconsider

centralizing

disconcerting

enterprising

implicating

bewildering

notwithstanding

issuances

diagnostic

disheartening

pessimistic

disengagement

distributing

fingerprinting

distinguishing

diagnostics

paganism

diagnoses

mechanism

technically

technicolor

desensitize

mechanisms

reconstructive

deconstruction

reconstruction

businesswoman

disenchantment

desensitized

disconnected

reconstructions

disconnection

dishonesty

misconception

exchangeable

dishonestly

misconceptions

iconoclast

Words that rhyme with the word passing

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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WORD SCRAMBLE. THE WORD FINDER located on the website https://www.thewordfinder.com/