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

persist

westling

nestling

basting

belting

blasting

casting

glinting

lasting

melting

pelting

quilting

shifting

smelting

lifting

printing

squinting

tasting

tilting

whistling

wasting

wrestling

thrusting

trusting

fitting

flitting

getting

hitting

hurting

jetting

knitting

netting

nursing

petting

setting

shirting

sitting

skirting

slitting

sweating

earthling

hamstring

birthing

crashing

dashing

dishing

fishing

flashing

lashing

merging

purging

searching

thrashing

wishing

tempting

toasting

bunting

chanting

gilding

hunting

lending

scrimping

building

coasting

grafting

grasping

heckling

helping

kipling

rafting

roasting

acting

bending

stripling

ending

pending

shunting

panting

pimping

painting

sibling

asking

slanting

whitling

ousting

fainting

planting

costing

drafting

frosting

boasting

blending

hosting

posting

shafting

shelving

spending

airing

baiting

batting

bearing

beating

bedding

belling

bidding

billing

blaring

blessing

bracing

branching

brimming

burning

burping

butting

casing

chasing

chilling

chipping

chirping

churning

clearing

clipping

cribbing

curling

cutting

daring

derring

digging

dilling

dipping

dressing

drilling

drinking

dripping

dwelling

earning

earring

eating

erring

facing

fehling

filling

flaring

fledgling

fleeting

fleming

footing

gassing

gearing

ginning

girding

giving

glaring

grating

greeting

heading

heating

herring

hilling

hurling

inning

jerking

jutting

kenning

kicking

killing

learning

legging

lemming

licking

living

matting

meeting

milling

nipping

nutting

pacing

pairing

paring

passing

pegging

picking

pinching

plating

pressing

putting

quilling

racing

ribbing

rigging

schilling

seating

serving

shearing

shedding

sheeting

shelling

shilling

shipping

shredding

shrinking

sinking

skilling

skimming

slating

sledding

smelling

sniffing

something

sparing

spelling

sperling

spinning

spurling

stating

steering

sterling

sticking

stinking

stripping

strutting

swearing

sweeting

swelling

swimming

telling

thinking

thrilling

ticking

tipping

tracing

tricking

trilling

trimming

tripping

turkish

turning

veering

waiting

wearing

webbing

wedding

wellspring

whipping

whirling

willing

winning

wording

working

wrecking

yearling

yearning

yelling

hatching

edging

latching

gushing

nothing

kindling

raging

handling

patching

ringing

springing

scratching

fetching

singing

pitching

pushing

etching

flushing

matching

plaything

paging

marxists

rambling

beijing

crushing

stretching

washing

shoestring

witching

bathing

stinging

brushing

bitching

switching

catching

stirring

aging

wringing

blushing

staging

stitching

banding

bolting

camping

coupling

coursing

crackling

cuddling

faulting

forcing

glancing

dancing

daunting

fencing

funding

grappling

jumping

lamping

lumping

malting

molting

shuffling

straddling

pointing

pumping

salting

sapling

taunting

thumping

vaulting

wanting

angling

scalping

tamping

mounting

piercing

tackling

suckling

duckling

parting

stamping

standing

starting

inkling

landing

sprinkling

buckling

sporting

curses

purses

surcease

arching

banking

bulging

farthing

forging

franking

launching

marching

nanking

lunching

offspring

scorching

spanking

planking

aching

ailing

backing

bagging

baking

biting

blazing

boating

booting

brackish

braiding

braving

breaking

bruting

bucking

budding

caning

chafing

clucking

coating

coming

cooking

cracking

craving

crossing

culling

cunning

curing

damning

dicing

doting

doubting

dragging

draining

drugging

drumming

dubbing

ducking

during

fading

failing

feigning

fighting

flagging

flaming

floating

flooding

framing

fruiting

fucking

gadding

gaming

glazing

grading

grayling

grazing

grouting

gunning

having

hissing

hugging

humming

icing

jailing

lading

lagging

lapping

laughing

leasing

lighting

looking

loving

madding

mailing

making

mapping

missing

mooring

mugging

muting

nagging

napping

outing

pouting

presage

packing

padding

panning

paving

phasing

phrasing

plugging

plumbing

pudding

puffing

quaking

racking

railing

raising

raking

raving

rubbing

running

sacking

sagging

sailing

saving

scaling

scraping

shading

shaving

shooting

slighting

smacking

snapping

slapping

sighting

slotting

stacking

straining

staving

strapping

stunning

sucking

suiting

stuffing

tacking

tailing

taking

tanning

tossing

trading

trailing

training

trucking

veiling

voting

wading

waking

waning

whacking

whaling

whiting

writing

yachting

groundling

foundling

sparkling

dumpling

horseshit

banging

bleaching

breathing

breeching

clanging

clothing

coaching

couching

druggist

hanging

judging

loathing

lodging

preaching

smoothing

sheathing

slouching

soothing

tarses

teaching

teething

tithing

touching

peeing

paying

laying

being

playing

seeing

swaying

marxist

weighing

saying

fraying

praying

arming

binding

boarding

bonding

blinding

bouncing

boxing

evening

bounding

carling

carping

carving

charming

coaxing

darling

farming

fielding

finding

fixing

harping

hoarding

holding

lightning

marking

morning

morphing

moulding

mourning

pouncing

pounding

rifling

folding

forming

founding

golding

golfing

grinding

grounding

horning

hounding

mincing

minding

parking

romping

sparling

sounding

trifling

warling

warming

warning

warping

yielding

weakling

rounding

scolding

seedling

sharking

snarling

starling

storming

wielding

wilding

wincing

winding

brasses

cresses

presses

verses

dresses

turkic

nurses

tresses

graces

druggists

mercies

awning

barring

beading

beaming

biding

bleeding

bleeping

blocking

blooming

boiling

bolling

boning

booming

boozing

boring

bowling

brawling

breakage

breeding

briefing

broiling

broking

brooding

browning

browsing

calling

calming

caulking

ceiling

choking

chopping

churches

cleaning

climbing

cloaking

clocking

clogging

closing

clouding

clowning

cocking

codding

coiling

colling

combing

cooling

coping

crashes

creaking

creeping

crooning

dawning

dealing

dining

diving

docking

dressage

driving

dueling

dropping

easing

eking

falling

feeding

feeling

filing

fining

firing

flogging

flooring

foaming

foiling

freaking

freezing

fuming

galling

gloaming

greening

grieving

grooming

grouping

healing

hearing

heaving

hiding

hogging

holing

homing

hopping

housing

jarring

jeering

jogging

joking

keeling

keeping

knocking

leading

leaking

leaning

leaping

liking

lining

loading

loaning

logging

looming

looping

lopping

loring

losing

lurches

meaning

merges

mining

mocking

moving

musing

nodding

nosing

offing

oozing

peaking

perches

piling

pining

piping

pleading

pleasing

plodding

poking

poling

polling

pooling

popping

priming

prowling

pruning

purchase

roaring

scarring

scheming

schooling

scourges

screaming

screening

searches

seeling

seeming

purges

reading

riding

rising

rocking

rolling

roofing

rousing

roving

ruling

seizing

shining

shocking

shoring

shrouding

siding

signing

sleeping

sliding

sloping

sneaking

sizing

smoking

sneezing

speaking

stalling

stealing

snoring

soaking

soaring

sobbing

sopping

squeezing

stocking

stooping

stopping

largest

stowing

streaming

striking

striving

stroking

surges

swooning

teaming

teeming

tiding

sweeping

talking

tooling

topping

trackage

trashes

tuning

verges

viking

voiding

walking

walling

weeping

whooping

whopping

wiring

tubing

twining

urges

wapping

weaving

weeding

wheeling

arses

bourses

carsick

forces

forecasts

frescoes

longing

large-scale

blowing

blueing

bluing

cooing

bowing

brewing

chewing

crying

doing

drawing

buying

crowing

drying

vying

glowing

going

prying

suing

knowing

owing

screwing

trying

tying

dyeing

flowing

flying

marshes

dying

frying

growing

lawing

lying

mowing

sewing

showing

throwing

lowing

sighing

braces

creases

crosses

grasses

grosses

herzog

jerseys

precise

process

pursues

traces

forecast

trusses

turkeys

brushes

crushes

tragic

wreckage

courses

foresees

foresight

horses

largesse

orcas

parsec

sources

turquoise

arches

barges

charges

forges

georges

gorges

horseshoe

marches

porches

torches

marquiss

crazies

projects

breezes

cruises

praises

freezes

friezes

phrases

prices

crises

breaches

breeches

broaches

preaches

screeches

thrushes

arkose

crosswise

forsake

proxies

torsos

warsaws

carjack

corsage

project

orgies

argues

boroughs

carjacks

bruises

prizes

cargoes

cargos

forgoes

3 syllable words

ravishing

vanishing

accenting

excepting

disgusting

existing

harvesting

dissecting

blistering

fastening

befitting

besetting

emitting

visiting

journeying

anything

churchgoing

damaging

finishing

shoplifting

polishing

abducting

afflicting

consulting

forecasting

insulting

respecting

tormenting

carpeting

lactating

marketing

outfitting

surprising

mistaking

offsetting

parceling

typesetting

constricting

erupting

backbiting

dissenting

scaffolding

unwitting

issuing

nerve-racking

upsetting

asserting

baffling

imprinting

challenging

transporting

battening

beginning

blustering

channeling

scavenging

cackling

conflicting

interesting

languishing

blossoming

cherishes

cradling

narcissist

delighting

discerning

everything

glistening

maddening

paneling

galloping

happening

lessening

listening

parishes

presages

marshaling

pervading

preceding

proceeding

profiting

raveling

repeating

riveting

surviving

ticketing

vomiting

whispering

tabling

plastering

blanketing

percussion

warehousing

surrounding

arranging

arriving

backsliding

beseeching

besieging

bickering

billowing

caressing

carousing

carrying

dairying

distressing

echoing

exhausting

frustrating

glimmering

installing

investing

mellowing

murmuring

painstaking

pickering

pitying

shimmering

shipbuilding

surveying

thanksgiving

varying

winnowing

yellowing

erecting

equating

endearing

exceeding

exciting

circuses

dressmaking

easterling

gambling

percussive

hardening

gardening

housekeeping

housewarming

crocheting

infighting

inserting

inviting

life-giving

misgiving

misleading

pardoning

revolting

scrambling

shortening

blackmailing

bloodsucking

withering

campaigning

despairing

conceding

counseling

departing

dampening

darkening

disarming

descending

disguising

unwilling

succeeding

landscaping

distracting

becoming

carjacking

matchmaking

alerting

annealing

appealing

assuming

beguiling

believing

carriages

diverting

dividing

graciously

cycling

deadening

deafening

drizzling

bustling

debating

bottling

crusading

designing

detailing

ensuing

freewheeling

crippling

leavening

leveling

lightening

marriages

meddling

modeling

mottling

middling

muscling

opening

peddling

piddling

pilfering

polluting

precession

precision

presiding

prevailing

purchases

quarreling

quickening

reasoning

reckoning

relieving

retiring

reversing

reviving

scribbling

seasoning

settling

sickening

softening

stiffening

sizzling

surgical

surpassing

thickening

sweetening

threatening

traversing

well-being

landholding

astounding

completing

attracting

broadcasting

dissembling

expiring

exulting

exacting

expelling

handwriting

inspiring

reflecting

importing

misspelling

shortcoming

strengthening

unsparing

unflinching

unyielding

bullying

lingering

machining

diverging

annoying

buffeting

canoeing

copying

dialing

ironing

jockeying

assuring

narrowing

corsican

nourishes

shadowing

nearsighted

toweling

cushioning

corsicas

belonging

fingering

tinkering

orchestras

orchestrate

orchestral

carjackings

forthcoming

enchanting

corsica

aspiring

affecting

bloodletting

bookkeeping

ascending

bullfighting

comforting

commuting

connecting

consoling

consuming

declining

defusing

degrading

dissolving

downsizing

dwindling

emptying

fondling

foreboding

imposing

incoming

invading

kidnapping

terraces

lamenting

processes

oncoming

persuasion

processions

railroading

reclining

regarding

revolving

sleepwalking

trembling

tricycle

trumpeting

typewriting

unfeeling

contracting

outstanding

approaching

beholding

brainwashing

bushwhacking

converging

cowering

engaging

flowering

glowering

layering

lowering

marxism

orchestra

persecutes

refreshing

exploring

souring

heartbreaking

tinkling

expanding

twinkling

towering

adoring

agreeing

aligning

alluring

amazing

abiding

appalling

deserving

divining

bubbling

colouring

doubling

ballooning

governing

conveying

highflying

locating

ongoing

profiling

provoking

undoing

undying

juggling

opining

opposing

purchasers

perplexing

caresses

persuasions

morasses

harasses

persico

enclosing

impending

engraving

imploring

improving

contacting

enduring

hairdressing

adjoining

farcical

farsighted

maturing

persecute

sojourning

tricuspid

wrongdoing

battering

bettering

chattering

coloring

covering

diapering

doddering

favoring

flattering

flavoring

following

laboring

lettering

mirages

motoring

neighboring

neutering

offering

papering

peppering

powdering

purchaser

scattering

seagoing

smattering

soldering

stuttering

suffering

tailoring

tapering

watering

amusing

accusing

abounding

approving

commanding

complying

concerning

confiding

bumbling

bundling

composing

conserving

decreasing

enticing

forwarding

good-looking

mumbling

networking

observing

patrolling

relapsing

unthinking

rumbling

tumbling

underling

unfailing

uprising

badgering

weathering

viruses

wagering

tauruses

butchering

bungling

gathering

forecasters

prosecutes

heiresses

preexists

perquisites

feathering

orchestrates

obliging

pharisees

measuring

mothering

blundering

centering

childbearing

churchgoers

complaining

compounding

concurring

confounding

confusing

dumbfounding

engrossing

entering

factoring

faltering

hardworking

increasing

laundering

lawmaking

lumbering

ordering

outgoing

outlying

pondering

procession

promising

reducing

rehearses

rendering

seducing

tempering

thundering

unbending

wandering

whitening

triassic

forecaster

preexist

conjuring

perquisite

conquering

persuasive

soldiering

rejoicing

outpouring

eavesdropping

according

admiring

alarming

pronouncing

groundbreaking

recording

barrages

churchgoer

garages

iraqis

thoracic

jurassic

projection

choruses

erases

absorbing

conforming

convincing

projections

carcasses

prosecute

xeroxes

projectile

arises

projectiles

archaic

forages

crocuses

hyraxes

syracuse

orgasms

argosy

projector

orgasm

sarcasm

sargasso

bourgeoisie

projectors

4 syllable words

registering

persevering

persistently

babysitting

fascinating

legislating

vacillating

parachuting

intersecting

captivating

circulating

coexisting

denigrating

dispiriting

everlasting

narcissistic

annotating

appetizing

bicycling

laminating

oscillating

gratifying

reentering

fingerprinting

executing

persecuted

activating

aggravating

barbecuing

devastating

emphasizing

maximizing

overwhelming

palpitating

underpinning

unremitting

admonishing

conditioning

disengaging

inhibiting

distributing

obviating

fireproofing

never-ending

nonrecurring

overbearing

overcoming

overrating

agonizing

bewildering

dominating

unassuming

condescending

unrelenting

agitating

implicating

encouraging

energizing

calculating

narcissism

overhauling

notifying

liberating

separating

moderating

pioneering

operating

persecution

encircling

unbecoming

examining

waterproofing

patronizing

underwriting

disappointing

orchestrated

engineering

merchandising

understanding

notwithstanding

overlapping

overpowering

overruling

overflowing

occupying

mitigating

disappearing

disabling

detonating

delegating

hesitating

domineering

irritating

complicating

disconcerting

enterprising

corresponding

persecutions

centralizing

overarching

courageously

disheartening

edifying

overlying

realizing

discouraging

oceangoing

surgically

persecutors

interlocking

advertising

disapproving

percussionist

undertaking

enlightening

penetrating

entertaining

interviewing

speechifying

sarcastically

persecutor

astonishing

lyricism

orchestration

disparaging

inheriting

developing

inquiring

suffocating

underlying

integrating

distinguishing

orchestrations

prosecutors

embarrassing

unbelieving

prosecution

enveloping

fluctuating

prosecutor

undulating

prosecutions

unavailing

awakening

petitioning

mountaineering

partitioning

maharajahs

encompassing

theorizes

diagnosing

processional

trajectory

6 syllable words

Words that rhyme with the word persisting

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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