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

airing

bearing

blaring

bulging

clearing

daring

derring

earring

earthling

erring

flaring

fledgling

gearing

glaring

hamstring

herring

loving

lunching

nursing

pairing

paring

serving

shearing

something

sparing

steering

swearing

veering

wearing

wellspring

dumpling

crashing

crushing

edging

dashing

nestling

etching

flushing

nothing

purging

searching

stretching

shoestring

fetching

flashing

blushing

brushing

merging

judging

gushing

thrashing

lashing

touching

tempting

westling

birthing

asking

basting

bending

belting

blasting

buckling

blending

bunting

casting

ending

cresting

heckling

funding

cuddling

breasting

grasping

coupling

duckling

helping

lasting

jumping

pumping

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lumping

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lending

pending

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pelting

shelving

shuffling

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vesting

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shunting

smelting

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thumping

wrestling

testing

offspring

barring

belling

boring

braving

bucking

budding

burping

casing

bedding

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clucking

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churning

clipping

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coming

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curing

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dilling

diving

cutting

digging

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dressing

drilling

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during

dwelling

driving

earning

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ducking

facing

fehling

filling

firing

fitting

fleming

flitting

flooding

flooring

fucking

gassing

getting

ginning

girding

giving

gunning

having

heading

hearing

hilling

hissing

hitting

hugging

hurling

hurting

inning

jarring

jeering

jerking

jetting

jutting

humming

kenning

kicking

killing

knitting

learning

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missing

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living

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licking

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nipping

branching

nutting

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passing

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running

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setting

shaving

shedding

shelling

shilling

shipping

shirting

shoring

shredding

sitting

skilling

skimming

skirting

sledding

slitting

smelling

sniffing

snoring

soaring

spelling

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strutting

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winning

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yelling

airships

aging

handling

bitching

bathing

beijing

catching

dishing

fishing

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latching

matching

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patching

pitching

plaything

pushing

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ringing

scratching

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angling

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acting

airship

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building

camping

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chanting

costing

coursing

crackling

dancing

drafting

evening

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fencing

fixing

forcing

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gilding

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grafting

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hosting

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lamping

landing

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listing

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ousting

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planting

posting

printing

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rafting

roasting

sapling

scalping

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stamping

standing

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stripling

tackling

tamping

thrusting

tilting

toasting

trusting

twisting

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whitling

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worships

banking

arching

forging

launching

nanking

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franking

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farthing

planking

shrinking

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breaking

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footing

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napping

moving

packing

padding

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phasing

phrasing

plating

tanning

trailing

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tailing

taking

tossing

trading

training

aching

ailing

backing

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cooking

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crossing

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gadding

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glazing

grading

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grayling

grazing

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icing

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laughing

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looking

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mailing

making

mapping

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slapping

slating

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snapping

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stating

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whaling

worship

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foundling

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sparkling

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couching

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crispin

breathing

clothing

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soothing

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inkling

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percept

perceived

arming

being

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blinding

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charming

coaxing

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darling

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fielding

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forming

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hounding

kerchiefs

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lying

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marking

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morning

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seedling

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starling

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taunting

trifling

trying

tying

vaulting

vying

wanting

warling

warming

warning

warping

weakling

weighing

wielding

wilding

winding

yielding

perceive

forgive

crossbills

pressboard

workshops

workbench

awning

beading

beaming

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biding

biting

bleeding

bleeping

blocking

blooming

boating

boiling

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boning

booming

booting

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bowling

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ceiling

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closing

clouding

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eking

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joking

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keeping

kerchief

knocking

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lighting

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lining

loading

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logging

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looping

lopping

losing

meaning

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mining

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offing

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outing

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riding

rising

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teaming

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viking

voiding

voting

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wheeling

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walking

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whooping

whopping

writing

yachting

longing

breakfasts

crossbill

graceful

workshop

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glowing

going

lowing

showing

airspace

markups

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blueing

bluing

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chewing

precepts

doing

flowing

growing

grosbeaks

crowing

breakfast

bowing

knowing

owing

screwing

suing

forceful

throwing

sewing

forgave

prospects

crisply

crosspiece

grosbeak

markup

precept

horseflesh

horseback

horseplay

larkspur

prospect

crisper

crispy

prosper

archive

brickbat

crackpot

crossbows

brickbats

crossbow

prospers

crackpots

3 syllable words

persisting

alluring

fastening

forbidding

forgiving

lessening

surviving

challenging

scavenging

assuring

arriving

maturing

ravishing

covering

convincing

nourishing

endearing

scaffolding

unwitting

feathering

measuring

mothering

parceling

unwilling

weathering

despairing

adoring

annealing

appealing

baffling

battening

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beginning

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blundering

bustling

cackling

centering

channeling

colouring

concurring

correcting

cradling

deadening

deafening

divining

emitting

entering

galloping

glistening

governing

happening

leavening

leveling

listening

lumbering

maddening

meddling

muscling

paneling

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plastering

settling

tabling

rendering

everything

reckoning

surpassing

tempering

provoking

marshaling

threatening

raveling

thundering

traversing

languishing

visiting

abducting

accenting

afflicting

anything

bettering

caressing

churchgoing

coloring

consulting

cushioning

damaging

disgusting

dissembling

enduring

enlisting

excepting

favoring

finishing

flavoring

harvesting

insulting

journeying

lettering

machining

murmuring

peppering

perplexing

stuttering

suffering

surveying

unsparing

vanishing

archivists

according

ascending

aspiring

alarming

affecting

admiring

bloodletting

bloodsucking

carpeting

gardening

hardening

dampening

darkening

dressmaking

connecting

descending

gambling

disarming

housekeeping

lamenting

marketing

outfitting

recording

resisting

shortening

trembling

badgering

gathering

counseling

dissecting

dissenting

brazzaville

butchering

wagering

erupting

misgiving

misleading

nerve-racking

pardoning

scrambling

surprising

unfeeling

conflicting

archivist

matchmaking

transporting

blanketing

ballooning

cycling

reviving

vomiting

well-being

becoming

besetting

crippling

seasoning

lightening

retiring

scribbling

abiding

amazing

appalling

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agreeing

aligning

debating

dividing

doubling

drizzling

juggling

prevailing

profiting

promising

quarreling

quickening

reasoning

reducing

piddling

polluting

riveting

worshipers

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whitening

opposing

sickening

factoring

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opening

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softening

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stiffening

blustering

modeling

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blistering

bubbling

middling

mottling

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surrounding

undoing

astounding

inspiring

tormenting

adjoining

landholding

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arranging

polishing

absorbing

strengthening

thanksgiving

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backsliding

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respecting

shipbuilding

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crucifix

painstaking

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perceptive

flattering

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papering

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canoeing

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blackmailing

bookkeeping

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composing

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fondling

good-looking

housewarming

incoming

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lactating

life-giving

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outpouring

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interesting

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landscaping

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traceable

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ordering

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proceeding

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forcible

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ironing

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heartbreaking

distracting

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brainwashing

periscopes

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airspaces

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grasshopper

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highflying

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increasing

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corrosive

forcibly

periscope

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sojourning

thoroughbreds

thoroughfare

wrongdoing

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watering

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inserting

perception

kidnapping

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chargeable

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networking

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typewriting

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correspond

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gyroscopes

horoscopes

porcupine

prospective

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perceptions

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corresponds

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lawmaking

locating

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porcupines

horoscope

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gyroscope

crossover

crucify

groundbreaking

derisive

archbishop

doorkeeper

aerospace

archival

crosspieces

crowkeepers

grasshoppers

prospectors

crowkeeper

4 syllable words

engineering

pioneering

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vacillating

activating

aggravating

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maximizing

mountaineering

agonizing

annotating

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crucifixes

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speechifying

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poor-spirited

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legislating

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corresponding

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fireproofing

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enterprising

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jurisprudence

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foreseeable

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brachiopods

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fingerprinting

prospectuses

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perspiration

arguable

gyroscopic

brachiopod

forgivable

irascible

prospectively

prosperity

perishable

cross-pollinate

marsupials

perishables

distinguishing

irrespective

marsupial

preoccupies

crucifixion

preoccupy

6 syllable words
7 syllable words

Words that rhyme with the word persevering

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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