Rhyming Dictionary! Feedback?
Rhymes Here is a list of the words that rhyme with the word playing.This is ordered by best match. Changing color means the start of the next best set of words.
3 syllable words
Near RhymesHere is a list of the words that nearly rhyme with the word playing.
2 syllable words

airing

backing

bagging

batting

beading

beaming

bearing

beating

bedding

belling

biding

biting

blaring

bleeding

bleeping

blessing

boiling

breeding

briefing

broiling

burning

burping

ceiling

chirping

churning

cleaning

climbing

coiling

cracking

creaking

creeping

curling

damning

daring

dealing

derring

dicing

dining

diving

dragging

dressing

driving

dwelling

earning

easing

eating

eking

erring

feeding

feeling

fehling

fighting

filing

fining

firing

flagging

flaring

fleeting

fleming

foiling

freaking

freezing

gadding

gassing

getting

girding

glaring

greening

greeting

grieving

having

heading

healing

hearing

heating

heaving

herring

hiding

hurling

hurting

icing

jeering

jerking

jetting

keeling

keeping

kenning

lagging

lapping

laughing

leading

leaking

leaning

leaping

learning

leasing

legging

lemming

lighting

liking

lining

madding

mapping

matting

meaning

meeting

mining

nagging

napping

netting

nursing

packing

padding

pairing

panning

paring

passing

peaking

pegging

petting

piling

pining

piping

pleading

pleasing

pressing

priming

racking

reading

riding

rising

sacking

sagging

scheming

screaming

screening

seating

seeling

seeming

seizing

serving

setting

shedding

sheeting

shelling

shining

shirting

shredding

siding

sighting

signing

sizing

skirting

slapping

sledding

sleeping

sliding

slighting

smacking

smelling

snapping

sneaking

sneezing

sparing

speaking

spelling

sperling

spurling

squeezing

stacking

stealing

sterling

strapping

streaming

striking

striving

swearing

sweating

sweeping

sweeting

swelling

tacking

tanning

teaming

teeming

telling

tiding

turning

twining

viking

voiding

wearing

weaving

webbing

wedding

weeding

weeping

whacking

wheeling

whirling

whiting

wiring

wording

working

wrecking

writing

yearling

yearning

yelling

blowing

blueing

bluing

bowing

brewing

chewing

cooing

crowing

doing

drawing

flowing

glowing

going

growing

knowing

lawing

lowing

mowing

owing

screwing

sewing

showing

suing

throwing

banging

birthing

bleaching

breathing

breeching

catching

clanging

crashing

dashing

edging

etching

fetching

flashing

hanging

hatching

lashing

latching

matching

merging

patching

preaching

purging

scratching

searching

sheathing

stretching

teaching

teething

thrashing

tithing

acting

asking

banding

belting

bending

binding

blasting

blending

blinding

breasting

camping

casting

ceilings

chanting

crackling

cresting

dancing

dealings

drafting

dwellings

ending

evening

feelings

fencing

fielding

filings

finding

glancing

grafting

grappling

grasping

grinding

heckling

helping

lamping

landing

lasting

lending

lightning

melting

minding

panting

pelting

pending

pilings

planting

pointing

rafting

resting

rifling

sapling

scalping

seedling

shafting

shellings

shelving

slanting

smelting

spending

stamping

standing

straddling

tackling

tamping

testing

trifling

vesting

weakling

wielding

wilding

winding

wrestling

yielding

awning

banking

barring

bidding

billing

blocking

blooming

boating

bolling

boning

booming

booting

boozing

boring

bowling

branching

brawling

brimming

broking

brooding

browning

browsing

bruting

bucking

budding

butting

calling

calming

caulking

chilling

chipping

choking

chopping

clearing

clipping

cloaking

clocking

clogging

closing

clouding

clowning

clucking

coating

cocking

codding

colling

combing

coming

cooking

cooling

coping

cribbing

crooning

crossing

culling

cunning

curing

cutting

dawning

digging

dilling

dipping

docking

doting

doubting

drilling

dripping

dropping

drugging

drumming

dubbing

ducking

dueling

during

earring

earthling

falling

filling

fitting

fledgling

flitting

floating

flogging

flooding

flooring

foaming

footing

franking

fruiting

fucking

fuming

galling

gearing

ginning

giving

gloaming

grooming

grouping

grouting

gunning

hilling

hissing

hitting

hogging

holing

homing

hopping

housing

hugging

humming

inning

jarring

jogging

joking

jutting

kicking

killing

knitting

knocking

licking

living

loading

loaning

logging

looking

looming

looping

lopping

loring

losing

loving

milling

missing

mocking

mooring

moving

mugging

musing

muting

nanking

nipping

nodding

nosing

nutting

offing

oozing

outing

picking

planking

plodding

plugging

plumbing

poking

poling

polling

pooling

popping

pouting

prowling

pruning

pudding

puffing

putting

quilling

ribbing

rigging

roaring

rocking

rolling

roofing

rousing

roving

rubbing

ruling

running

scarring

schilling

schooling

shearing

shilling

shipping

shocking

shooting

shoring

shrouding

sitting

skilling

skimming

slitting

sloping

slotting

smoking

sniffing

snoring

soaking

soaring

sobbing

sopping

spanking

spinning

stalling

steering

sticking

stocking

stooping

stopping

stowing

stripping

stroking

strutting

stuffing

stunning

sucking

suiting

swimming

swooning

talking

thrilling

ticking

tipping

tooling

topping

tossing

tricking

trilling

trimming

tripping

trucking

tubing

tuning

veering

voting

walking

walling

wapping

whipping

whooping

whopping

willing

winning

yachting

clothing

loathing

lodging

longing

smoothing

soothing

coaching

couching

singing

slouching

springing

stinging

stitching

wishing

witching

handling

brushing

dishing

pushing

switching

nestling

judging

nothing

ringing

touching

gushing

valence

tempting

pitching

westling

bitching

crushing

fishing

washing

flushing

rambling

blushing

wringing

slinger

boarding

boasting

bolting

bonding

bouncing

bounding

boxing

buckling

building

bunting

carling

carping

carving

charming

arming

coasting

billings

coaxing

costing

coursing

coupling

collings

cuddling

duckling

farming

faulting

fillings

fixing

forcing

founding

frosting

funding

gilding

darling

daunting

folding

forming

glinting

grounding

holding

golding

golfing

hoarding

angling

harping

horning

hosting

hounding

malting

mincing

lifting

listing

marking

jumping

hunting

killings

kipling

lumping

molting

morning

ousting

piercing

pimping

posting

pouncing

pounding

printing

pumping

rounding

morphing

moulding

mounting

mourning

quilting

rollings

romping

parking

parting

roasting

rulings

sharking

shifting

shillings

shuffling

shunting

sibling

skillings

sounding

sparling

sporting

squinting

starling

starting

storming

schillings

scrimping

salting

scolding

snarling

taunting

stripling

suckling

thrusting

thumping

tilting

toasting

trusting

twisting

vaulting

wanting

warling

warming

warning

warping

whistling

whitling

wincing

hamstring

wellspring

arching

bulging

drinking

farthing

forging

launching

lunching

marching

pinching

scallions

scorching

shrinking

sinking

something

stinking

thinking

clannish

slinky

belong

blemish

flemish

melange

dumpling

foundling

groundling

kindling

phalanx

shoestring

sparkling

silence

balance

felons

inkling

melons

talons

collins

gallons

sprinkling

glances

belongs

challenge

offspring

tlingit

cleanser

clinic

balanced

klansman

challenged

plankton

along

clincher

oolong

alums

villains

woolens

cleansers

clinics

felines

flounces

kleenex

mullens

nylons

pollens

pylons

sullens

alongs

blanket

blankly

clamshell

clenches

clinches

flanges

plunges

billions

millions

blankets

flimsy

clinique

helmsman

plumage

plunger

alines

balloons

climax

collums

columns

salons

saloons

blancmange

volumes

clumsy

almost

3 syllable words

arriving

buffeting

dairying

flavoring

journeying

neighboring

surveying

tailoring

tapering

varying

carrying

laboring

papering

favoring

cowering

flowering

glowering

lowering

souring

towering

crocheting

wagering

amazing

conveying

cradling

crusading

debating

detailing

lawmaking

locating

pervading

prevailing

surviving

tabling

well-being

annoying

anything

arranging

battering

bettering

bickering

bullying

caressing

carousing

chattering

coloring

copying

covering

dialing

diapering

doddering

echoing

flattering

glimmering

ironing

jockeying

lettering

mellowing

motoring

murmuring

narrowing

neutering

offering

peppering

pickering

pitying

powdering

scattering

seagoing

shadowing

shimmering

smattering

soldering

stuttering

suffering

watering

yellowing

admiring

backbiting

blackmailing

campaigning

degrading

dressmaking

emptying

endearing

enticing

equating

invading

lactating

mistaking

railroading

surprising

unfailing

aliens

badgering

butchering

feathering

gathering

nourishing

weathering

measuring

mothering

withering

brainwashing

engaging

everything

matchmaking

outlying

lessening

leavening

leveling

lightening

opining

ordering

laundering

lumbering

maddening

meddling

paneling

peddling

pilfering

plastering

pondering

preceding

presiding

proceeding

profiling

raveling

reasoning

reckoning

relieving

rendering

repeating

retiring

reversing

reviving

seasoning

surpassing

surrounding

sweetening

settling

tempering

whispering

whitening

threatening

thundering

undying

wandering

traversing

agreeing

arresting

asserting

baffling

deserving

discerning

diverting

dividing

divining

ensuing

entering

galloping

governing

happening

appealing

aligning

alerting

forgiving

forbidding

annealing

designing

freewheeling

factoring

faltering

fastening

abiding

blistering

channeling

colouring

battening

blundering

delighting

beguiling

believing

blustering

cackling

centering

besetting

concurring

correcting

cycling

deafening

deadening

highflying

backsliding

complaining

enduring

engraving

frustrating

handwriting

painstaking

adjoining

beseeching

besieging

churchgoing

conjuring

conquering

damaging

diverging

fingering

lingering

machining

ravishing

rejoicing

sojourning

soldiering

tinkering

vanishing

billowing

canoeing

following

glowingly

toweling

winnowing

accusing

affecting

amusing

ascending

aspiring

bloodletting

bookkeeping

bullfighting

comforting

commanding

commuting

complying

conceding

concerning

confiding

connecting

conserving

dampening

declining

decreasing

defusing

descending

despairing

disguising

dissecting

dissenting

downsizing

easterling

erecting

erupting

exceeding

exciting

forwarding

gambling

housekeeping

infighting

inserting

inviting

kidnapping

lamenting

life-giving

misleading

nerve-racking

networking

observing

offsetting

persisting

reclining

relapsing

revolting

revolving

scaffolding

scrambling

sleepwalking

succeeding

trembling

typesetting

typewriting

underling

unfeeling

uprising

upsetting

groundbreaking

heartbreaking

landscaping

dalliance

galleons

issuing

violins

blanketing

bushwhacking

carjacking

challenging

converging

obliging

refreshing

scavenging

warehousing

adoring

alluring

befitting

bubbling

doubling

drizzling

followings

glistening

juggling

middling

bustling

crippling

listening

assuming

ballooning

becoming

beginning

emitting

modeling

ongoing

appalling

blossoming

bottling

mottling

muscling

opening

polluting

profiting

opposing

outgoing

piddling

promising

provoking

quarreling

quickening

reducing

riveting

scribbling

seducing

sickening

sizzling

softening

stiffening

thickening

ticketing

undoing

visiting

vomiting

willingly

abducting

accenting

attracting

bilingual

broadcasting

childbearing

completing

confusing

contacting

dissembling

enclosing

enlisting

exacting

excepting

expelling

distressing

expiring

forecasting

hairdressing

hardworking

inspiring

impending

increasing

investing

unsparing

unyielding

perplexing

reflecting

tormenting

misspelling

respecting

strengthening

unbending

assuring

belonging

cushioning

enchanting

finishing

maturing

polishing

wrongdoing

abounding

bloodsucking

composing

fondling

gardening

foreboding

good-looking

pardoning

recording

trumpeting

pronouncing

tumbling

parceling

expanding

transporting

incoming

mumbling

outstanding

according

bumbling

carpeting

departing

hardening

housewarming

distracting

bundling

darkening

dissolving

imposing

marketing

oncoming

outfitting

outpouring

rumbling

shortening

unwilling

unwitting

misgiving

alarming

approving

consoling

counseling

disarming

eavesdropping

consuming

dwindling

patrolling

regarding

contracting

resisting

languishing

landholding

belongings

bungling

tinkling

beholding

approaching

thanksgiving

marshaling

twinkling

balancer

hellenic

silencer

hellenize

violence

felonies

alliance

pleonasm

polemic

absorbing

afflicting

astounding

compounding

conforming

confounding

consulting

convincing

disgusting

dumbfounding

engrossing

exhausting

existing

exulting

harvesting

imploring

importing

improving

installing

insulting

shipbuilding

shoplifting

shortcoming

blemishes

challenger

forthcoming

relinquish

climactic

conflicting

silences

delinquent

unthinking

balances

polemics

imprinting

climaxes

exploring

interesting

challengers

challenges

fluency

unflinching

constricting

delinquents

allowance

bulimic

chileans

colonies

colonize

reliance

salinas

balloonist

colonist

colonized

illnesses

palmistry

alongside

balloonists

colonists

columnist

columnists

almighty

polonaise

plumages

schoolmaster

elongate

clumsily

dilemmas

4 syllable words

edifying

gratifying

liberating

moderating

operating

overlying

separating

agonizing

annotating

appetizing

awakening

babysitting

delegating

detonating

disabling

dominating

fascinating

hesitating

irritating

laminating

mitigating

obviating

oscillating

overrating

suffocating

unavailing

underlying

vacillating

agitating

energizing

advertising

circulating

emphasizing

enlightening

palpitating

patronizing

penetrating

undertaking

underwriting

interviewing

maximizing

denigrating

notifying

pioneering

aggravating

realizing

captivating

devastating

entertaining

reentering

activating

undulating

legislating

fluctuating

speechifying

disengaging

merchandising

bewildering

bicycling

calculating

centralizing

complicating

developing

diagnosing

enterprising

executing

fireproofing

implicating

inquiring

integrating

never-ending

nonrecurring

occupying

overbearing

overcoming

overflowing

overlapping

overpowering

overruling

persevering

parachuting

overarching

encouraging

overhauling

discouraging

registering

barbecuing

embarrassing

enveloping

everlasting

interlocking

disappointing

examining

encircling

overwhelming

unbelieving

underpinning

waterproofing

disparaging

admonishing

engineering

inheriting

hellenizes

violinist

condescending

disconcerting

encompassing

intersecting

unrelenting

unassuming

disappearing

domineering

petitioning

violinists

distributing

oceangoing

understanding

coexisting

disapproving

dispiriting

fingerprinting

mountaineering

unbecoming

unremitting

astonishing

conditioning

elongation

inhibiting

partitioning

notwithstanding

delinquency

corresponding

galenical

alliances

hellenism

melancholy

disheartening

relinquishes

delinquencies

melanesian

polynesian

melancholic

distinguishing

elongated

melanesians

clinically

colonizer

allowances

colonizers

ylang-ylang

polemical

polemicist

Words that rhyme with the word playing

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


Cite This Article

Pick a style below, and copy the text for your bibliography.

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