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

entrench

hamstring

wellspring

nestling

tempting

westling

painting

belting

bending

breasting

fainting

fencing

glinting

printing

planting

bunting

panting

parting

pending

resting

shunting

hunting

blending

pelting

chanting

cresting

untrained

ending

lending

entrance

entrant

melting

slanting

smelting

testing

thrusting

trusting

vesting

spending

sporting

squinting

starting

untruths

netting

nutting

sweating

wearing

writing

whiting

swearing

lunching

bearing

entries

airing

baiting

cutting

daring

derring

ventral

central

entrail

lighting

waiting

biting

blaring

butting

contrite

intrigue

something

erring

sentries

grating

pinching

fighting

flaring

branching

getting

glaring

herring

hurting

jetting

kenning

pairing

paring

petting

plating

putting

jutting

setting

shirting

sighting

skirting

slating

slighting

sparing

fledgling

stating

strutting

handling

kindling

sparkling

entrants

dumpling

shoestring

untruth

fetching

nothing

sentry

edging

etching

entry

gentry

plaything

stretching

entrust

handrails

centrex

angling

entrails

inkling

intrigues

sprinkling

acting

arming

banding

blasting

basting

boarding

buckling

carling

carping

carving

casting

charming

coupling

coursing

cuddling

dancing

darling

daunting

drafting

duckling

farming

forcing

forming

funding

glancing

grafting

harping

heckling

helping

hoarding

horning

jumping

landing

lasting

lifting

lightning

listing

lumping

marking

mincing

morning

morphing

mounting

mourning

parking

piercing

pointing

pumping

quilting

rafting

shafting

sharking

shelving

shifting

shuffling

snarling

sparling

standing

starling

storming

suckling

taunting

thumping

tilting

twisting

wanting

warling

warming

tasting

warning

warping

wincing

wasting

whitling

wrestling

arching

banking

bulging

centrale

contrive

countries

drinking

entrap

entrees

farthing

forging

franking

offspring

handrail

kindred

launching

mandrake

mandrill

marching

nanking

scorching

shrinking

sinking

spanking

thinking

anthrax

tantrum

enthralled

planking

stinking

chasing

clearing

hurling

icing

climbing

contrasts

chafing

baking

chirping

churning

inning

clucking

coming

jailing

learning

lemming

loving

loring

contracts

knitting

lading

legging

mailing

making

matting

tailing

taking

tiding

trailing

trucking

veering

entranced

training

jarring

liking

meeting

tracing

trading

jerking

tanning

interests

telling

aching

ailing

barring

batting

beating

bedding

belling

biding

blazing

blessing

boring

bracing

braiding

braving

breaking

bucking

budding

burning

burping

caning

casing

craving

culling

cunning

curing

curling

dicing

diving

doubting

draining

dressing

driving

drugging

drumming

dubbing

ducking

during

dwelling

earning

earring

eating

facing

fading

failing

fehling

feigning

filing

firing

fitting

flaming

fleeting

fleming

flitting

flooding

flooring

footing

framing

fucking

gaming

gearing

ginning

girding

glazing

grading

grayling

grazing

greeting

grouting

gunning

heading

heating

hiding

hitting

hugging

humming

mooring

mugging

nursing

outing

pacing

panning

paving

pegging

phasing

phrasing

piling

piping

plugging

plumbing

pouting

pressing

priming

puffing

quaking

racing

railing

raising

raking

raving

riding

rising

roaring

rubbing

running

sailing

saving

scaling

scarring

scraping

seating

serving

shading

shaving

shearing

shedding

sheeting

shelling

shoring

shredding

siding

sitting

sizing

sledding

sliding

slitting

slotting

smelling

snoring

soaring

spelling

sperling

spinning

spurling

staving

steering

sterling

straining

striking

striving

stuffing

stunning

sucking

sweeting

swelling

turning

veiling

viking

wading

waking

waning

webbing

wedding

whaling

whirling

winning

wiring

wording

working

wrecking

yachting

yearling

yearning

yelling

rambling

foundling

hundredths

groundling

contract

aging

interest

bathing

beijing

androids

tantrums

banging

birthing

country

contrast

blushing

brushing

controls

centers

bitching

centered

centres

clanging

entree

gushing

judging

hanging

crushing

dishing

enters

fishing

flushing

gantry

intern

lantern

mantra

mentors

merging

paging

pantry

pitching

purging

pushing

raging

renters

ringing

searching

singing

springing

staging

stinging

stitching

switching

tithing

touching

venters

wintry

wishing

witching

wringing

intrudes

buying

drying

dyeing

dying

flying

crying

fraying

frying

laying

lying

paying

playing

praying

prying

saying

sighing

stirring

swaying

trying

tying

vying

weighing

camping

bonding

bouncing

bounding

bolting

asking

binding

blinding

boasting

building

costing

crackling

dentures

faulting

finding

fixing

founding

hundredth

coasting

frosting

grasping

grappling

gilding

grinding

hosting

hounding

lamping

malting

grounding

kipling

minding

molting

ousting

pimping

posting

pouncing

pounding

rifling

roasting

rounding

salting

sapling

scalping

scrimping

sibling

sounding

stamping

straddling

stripling

tackling

tamping

toasting

trifling

vaulting

wilding

ventures

whistling

winding

contort

interns

intrude

lanterns

android

earthling

centaurs

contras

control

endorse

landwehr

enter

center

venter

centre

renter

unturned

awning

backing

bagging

beading

beaming

bidding

billing

bleeding

bleeping

boating

boiling

boning

booting

breeding

briefing

brimming

broiling

browning

bruting

ceiling

chilling

chipping

cleaning

clipping

clowning

coating

coiling

cooking

cracking

creaking

creeping

cribbing

crooning

damning

dawning

dealing

denture

digging

dilling

dining

dipping

doting

dragging

drilling

dripping

easing

eking

feeding

feeling

filling

fining

flagging

floating

foiling

freaking

freezing

fruiting

gadding

gassing

giving

greening

grieving

having

healing

hearing

heaving

hilling

hissing

jeering

keeling

keeping

kicking

killing

lagging

lapping

laughing

leading

leaking

leaning

leaping

leasing

licking

lining

living

loaning

looking

madding

mapping

meaning

milling

mining

missing

muting

nagging

napping

nipping

packing

padding

passing

peaking

picking

pining

pleading

pleasing

pruning

pudding

quilling

racking

reading

ribbing

rigging

sacking

sagging

scheming

schilling

screaming

screening

seeling

seeming

seizing

shilling

shining

shipping

shooting

signing

skilling

skimming

slapping

sleeping

smacking

snapping

sneaking

sneezing

sniffing

speaking

squeezing

stacking

stealing

sticking

strapping

streaming

stripping

suiting

sweeping

swimming

swooning

tacking

teaming

teeming

thrilling

ticking

tipping

tricking

trilling

trimming

tripping

twining

venture

voiding

voting

weaving

weeding

weeping

whacking

tuning

wheeling

whipping

willing

syndromes

endures

benders

bleaching

breathing

breeching

contra

crashing

enders

fenders

genders

raindrops

cantors

catching

centaur

dashing

endear

flashing

hatching

hunters

indri

lashing

latching

knitwear

lenders

matching

mentor

painters

patching

loathing

longing

preaching

reindeer

renders

sheathing

tundra

teaching

thrashing

scratching

senders

sundry

teething

tenders

untrue

winters

vendors

evening

fielding

folding

coaxing

boxing

golding

one-third

golfing

panthers

romping

weakling

wielding

holding

moulding

scolding

seedling

yielding

being

lawing

drawing

mowing

peeing

seeing

bender

raindrop

foundries

indoors

syndrome

windward

banter

canter

ender

cantor

fender

gender

laundries

hunter

inter

lender

painter

panter

minter

andrews

endure

punter

landward

render

santer

sender

tender

vendor

winter

blocking

blooming

hundreds

bolling

booming

brawling

contorts

calling

boozing

bowling

hindrance

broking

brooding

browsing

calming

caulking

choking

chopping

cloaking

clocking

clogging

closing

clouding

cocking

codding

colling

combing

cooling

coping

crossing

docking

dropping

dueling

falling

flogging

foaming

fuming

galling

gloaming

grooming

grouping

hogging

holing

homing

hopping

housing

jogging

joking

knocking

loading

logging

looming

looping

lopping

losing

mocking

moving

musing

nodding

nosing

offing

oozing

panther

plodding

poking

poling

polling

pooling

popping

prowling

rocking

rolling

roofing

rousing

roving

ruling

schooling

shocking

shrouding

sloping

smoking

soaking

sobbing

sopping

stalling

stocking

stooping

stopping

stowing

stroking

talking

tooling

topping

tossing

tubing

walking

walling

wapping

whooping

roundworms

whopping

andrew

bondar

cinders

clothing

coaching

couching

counters

foundry

ganders

handers

hinders

indoor

lodging

manders

landers

laundry

pointers

slouching

smoothing

soothing

winders

washing

wondered

thunders

wonders

zanders

blowing

blueing

bluing

bowing

brewing

chewing

contours

cooing

crowing

dandruff

doing

flowing

gendarme

glowing

growing

going

hundred

throwing

lowing

suing

roundworm

screwing

knowing

owing

sewing

showing

bander

cinder

gander

pointer

lander

candor

hander

pander

saunter

hinder

counter

mander

sunder

thunder

tinder

winder

under

wonder

zander

scoundrels

smothers

binders

condors

contour

launders

finders

founders

ponders

pounders

squanders

wanders

knitter

smatter

humdrum

scoundrel

smother

conder

binder

bounder

condor

finder

launder

squander

founder

minder

pinder

ponder

pounder

rounder

sounder

wander

yonder

snider

smither

smoother

smithers

3 syllable words

attracting

engraving

handwriting

painstaking

enticing

lactating

enchanting

centering

engaging

constricting

debating

everything

entering

entreaties

contracting

distracting

groundbreaking

interesting

landscaping

enlisting

hairdressing

entreaty

increasing

consulting

distressing

anything

insulting

bloodletting

comforting

connecting

degrading

departing

dressmaking

emptying

endearing

equating

infighting

inserting

invading

inviting

mistaking

patrolling

unfailing

uprising

upsetting

agreeing

alerting

asserting

channeling

amazing

conveying

deadening

meddling

blanketing

deafening

detailing

lessening

paneling

delighting

leveling

leavening

peddling

reckoning

rendering

countryman

riveting

settling

threatening

ticketing

heartbreaking

entrenches

transporting

disgusting

exulting

conforming

interlink

bettering

abducting

complaining

excepting

investing

strengthening

completing

buffeting

contacting

stuttering

dairying

enclosing

importing

enduring

lettering

engrossing

varying

installing

antarctic

approving

backbiting

blackmailing

bullfighting

bundling

campaigning

commuting

conceding

concerning

confiding

conserving

contrivance

decreasing

disarming

dwindling

erecting

erupting

exciting

feathering

incoming

interested

interfaith

measuring

nerve-racking

networking

outfitting

pronouncing

regarding

renderings

resisting

scaffolding

senators

succeeding

surprising

trembling

trumpeting

typewriting

underling

unfeeling

unwitting

weathering

contraption

approaching

bungling

converging

contraction

endorses

conflicting

intrusive

matchmaking

obliging

refreshing

tinkling

twinkling

senator

abiding

aligning

annealing

appealing

baffling

battening

befitting

becoming

beguiling

blistering

blundering

blustering

designing

dividing

divining

doubling

drizzling

emitting

profiting

quickening

raveling

repeating

retiring

reviving

scribbling

surviving

visiting

vomiting

well-being

cradling

crippling

ensuing

fastening

galloping

factoring

glistening

governing

happening

proceeding

sickening

sizzling

tabling

tempering

stiffening

thickening

thundering

traversing

undying

bubbling

concurring

listening

locating

lumbering

maddening

middling

muscling

bustling

cackling

pervading

piddling

juggling

plastering

presiding

prevailing

outlying

polluting

convincing

exacting

exhausting

landholding

existing

forecasting

intrusion

adjoining

harvesting

underlings

arranging

rejoicing

centrally

confounding

conjuring

machining

afflicting

confusing

cushioning

inspiring

entertain

fingering

internship

entropy

finishing

immature

interfere

lingering

symmetric

tinkering

unsparing

underpin

underrate

improving

vanishing

annoying

arriving

battering

carrying

surveying

contraptions

contractions

chattering

covering

narrowing

watering

smattering

suffering

coloring

peppering

scattering

pitying

journeying

flattering

mothering

easterling

intrinsic

downsizing

dissenting

dissolving

withering

interchange

disguising

exceeding

relapsing

forwarding

misleading

hundredweight

lamenting

railroading

reclining

recording

tumbling

gambling

janitors

marketing

observing

untrammeled

oncoming

kidnapping

symmetry

rumbling

fondling

mumbling

scrambling

unwilling

according

accusing

admiring

butchering

contracted

alarming

amusing

bloodsucking

bookkeeping

bumbling

carpeting

complying

composing

consoling

consuming

counseling

dampening

declining

brainwashing

centrifuge

eavesdropping

interferes

intruded

scavenging

intermix

countryside

countrywide

carjacking

entertained

entertains

internships

underwrites

warehousing

intrusions

downtrodden

challenging

ventricle

interdict

beholding

alluring

appalling

assuming

believing

blossoming

cycling

unflinching

arresting

ballooning

bottling

colouring

crusading

adoring

centuries

correcting

deserving

discerning

diverting

faltering

laundering

lawmaking

lightening

modeling

mottling

opening

opposing

ordering

outgoing

pilfering

pondering

profiling

promising

provoking

reasoning

quarreling

reducing

softening

under-age

relieving

reversing

seasoning

surpassing

sweetening

undoing

whispering

wandering

accenting

expiring

hardworking

unyielding

broadcasting

shipbuilding

anhydride

contrition

absorbing

janitor

imploring

tormenting

backsliding

bickering

bullying

canoeing

carousing

centralized

century

contractors

contradict

dialing

echoing

entrances

forthcoming

maturing

sumatran

glimmering

besieging

belonging

hindrances

mellowing

motoring

murmuring

shimmering

conquering

neutering

toweling

understates

winnowing

yellowing

assuring

ventricles

contrary

counterfeit

interface

interlace

intervene

pindaric

tenderloin

underbid

interstates

underwrite

pickering

ascending

aspiring

persisting

defusing

dissecting

housekeeping

shortening

gardening

misgiving

foreboding

descending

darkening

affecting

good-looking

hardening

imposing

outpouring

pardoning

revolting

revolving

underneath

parceling

wanderings

painterly

bushwhacking

monitors

tenderly

centralize

badgering

interviews

nourishing

intertwine

intervenes

marshaling

intrepid

introvert

issuing

interstate

contractor

hinterland

amateurs

untruthful

crocheting

enterprise

gathering

entrenchment

interludes

undertakes

exploring

understate

wintergreen

seducing

contradicts

ongoing

besetting

highflying

surrounding

contributes

whitening

cowering

glowering

underage

flowering

layering

souring

towering

unbending

anthracite

undergrowth

dissembling

reflecting

shortcoming

impending

respecting

contribute

hinterlands

interpose

amateur

interview

counterclaims

counterman

countervail

ravishing

monitor

damaging

interweave

sojourning

interleaf

churchgoing

intercede

interleave

indirect

interlock

interplay

underline

interlude

undermine

undertake

wrongdoing

caressing

denature

diapering

jockeying

laboring

neighboring

offering

papering

offsetting

unthinking

sleepwalking

typesetting

doddering

another

billowing

copying

favoring

flavoring

ironing

powdering

commanding

soldering

abounding

housewarming

tapering

despairing

imprinting

shadowing

tailoring

andiron

contravene

controllers

counterclaim

endorsers

interrupts

intersperse

introduce

introspect

intruders

pandora

reentry

thunderbirds

underlines

undermanned

undermines

underpay

wonderly

undersized

undersold

underworld

wagering

wonderland

childbearing

shoplifting

dumbfounding

compounding

astounding

perplexing

lowering

beginning

forbidding

forgiving

diverging

interrupt

entire

thunderbird

underground

undergoes

underplay

intruder

controller

countermove

endurance

polishing

endorser

soldiering

underside

endorsements

hinderer

commuters

understand

undertone

undertook

contraband

undershirt

expanding

entourage

languishing

outstanding

following

undercuts

understood

undertones

understands

seagoing

endorsement

thunderstorms

wonderment

ammeters

boundaries

commuter

launderers

mandarin

quandaries

undergo

underlie

wanderers

opining

freewheeling

misspelling

rentier

expelling

preceding

interject

undertows

untoward

undercut

internment

interprets

endearment

beseeching

countercharge

thunderstorm

handiwork

life-giving

ammeter

wanderer

quandary

boundary

launderer

venturesome

counterpart

interacts

intercept

intercourse

interpret

intersect

intricate

thanksgiving

intervals

contortion

underbrush

undershirts

underscores

commodore

intersects

undertow

intercepts

interim

meanders

contortions

interjects

internal

internet

underfoot

underwear

wonderful

interval

interact

reenter

contorted

counterfeits

counterforce

thunderbolt

underscore

underwhelm

underwoods

meander

counterparts

counteract

undercoat

undersell

underwood

underwent

counterpoints

montero

mandarins

counterpoint

4 syllable words

activating

aggravating

circulating

entertaining

underwriting

dominating

oscillating

inheriting

legislating

liberating

fluctuating

edifying

parachuting

centralizing

encompassing

enterprising

executing

calculating

underwritings

captivating

disappointing

disapproving

emphasizing

interviewing

unbelieving

undertaking

appetizing

engineering

unassuming

gratifying

energizing

undertakings

interfaces

complicating

registering

implicating

intriguingly

unremitting

interlocking

maximizing

dispiriting

agonizing

bewildering

disappearing

distributing

enterprises

introverted

obviating

overrating

persevering

underlying

fingerprinting

moderating

notifying

operating

pioneering

realizing

reentering

entertainment

encircling

everlasting

speechifying

patronizing

enlightening

cemeteries

advertising

monetarist

interchanges

contrarians

centrifuges

centralism

understanding

disengaging

untreatable

inhibiting

merchandising

domineering

inquiring

entirety

nonrecurring

entertainments

occupying

diagnosing

introspective

understatement

cemetery

developing

contrarian

disconcerting

encouraging

understandings

intermingle

entertainers

intersecting

monetarists

interviewees

interrupted

underwriters

corresponding

interstitial

waterproofing

enveloping

contraceptive

contrivances

coexisting

unbecoming

intractable

embarrassing

intermission

amateurish

interviewee

underwriter

entertainer

awakening

bicycling

disabling

fireproofing

interference

introduces

overcoming

overpowering

conditioning

introspection

monetary

intransigent

interdiction

intermissions

sanitary

overlying

centrifugal

discouraging

interrogate

overarching

symmetrical

interviewers

contraception

contradiction

barbecuing

contribution

introduction

interruption

underpinning

geometries

admonishing

interviewer

undertaker

astonishing

controllable

disparaging

entrepreneur

interpretive

intrepidly

interpolate

ventricular

centrality

contributions

never-ending

interruptions

overlapping

overruling

underpinnings

introductions

unrelenting

underhanded

contradictions

controversy

unitary

countercharges

entirely

oceangoing

cometary

entrepreneurs

geometry

intricacy

disheartening

intramural

internecine

intermarriage

miniatures

intermittent

diameter

undervalues

interconnect

counterforces

intricately

partitioning

interpreters

babysitting

overbearing

overflowing

condescending

undervalue

anterior

interior

indirectly

petitioning

interlopers

internalize

interpreter

overhauling

reintroduce

contributors

examining

miniature

mountaineering

overwhelming

contributor

controversies

interceptors

intricacies

kindergartner

undercurrents

centurion

intermarry

interloper

interiors

internally

kindergartners

thundershower

counterfeiters

undercurrent

understudy

intercurrent

interstellar

interceptor

andromeda

distinguishing

thundershowers

underbelly

controversial

notwithstanding

interurban

intervention

counterfeiter

counterclockwise

contravention

interwoven

contortionist

interventions

intercession

interaction

neanderthals

miniaturize

interregnum

kindergarten

interjection

interactions

kindergartens

interception

intersection

interceptions

intersections

neanderthal

unnatural

interjections

intersperses

counterbalanced

canterbury

entourages

counterbalance

7 syllable words
8 syllable words

Words that rhyme with the word penetrating

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

Rhyming Dictionary


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