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

broking

choking

cloaking

joking

poking

smoking

soaking

stroking

boating

bolling

boning

coaxing

bowling

caulking

closing

coating

combing

coping

doting

floating

foaming

gloaming

holing

homing

loading

loaning

nosing

poling

polling

rolling

roving

sloping

stowing

talking

voting

walking

blowing

bowing

crowing

flowing

glowing

going

growing

knowing

lowing

owing

sewing

showing

throwing

clothing

coaching

loathing

boasting

bolting

coasting

folding

golding

holding

hosting

molting

moulding

posting

roasting

scolding

toasting

aching

backing

baking

blocking

blooming

boiling

booming

booting

boozing

boring

brawling

breaking

broiling

brooding

browning

browsing

bruting

bucking

calling

clocking

clouding

clowning

clucking

cocking

coiling

cooking

cooling

cracking

creaking

crooning

crossing

dawning

docking

doubting

ducking

dueling

eking

flooring

foiling

freaking

fruiting

fucking

fuming

galling

grooming

grouping

grouting

hogging

housing

jerking

kicking

knocking

leaking

licking

liking

logging

looking

looming

looping

loring

losing

making

mocking

moving

musing

muting

offing

oozing

outing

packing

peaking

picking

pooling

pouting

prowling

pruning

quaking

racking

raking

roaring

rocking

roofing

rousing

ruling

sacking

schooling

shocking

shooting

shoring

shrouding

smacking

sneaking

snoring

soaring

speaking

stacking

stalling

sticking

stocking

stooping

striking

sucking

suiting

swooning

tacking

taking

ticking

tooling

tossing

tricking

trucking

tubing

tuning

viking

voiding

waking

walling

whacking

whooping

working

wrecking

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

blueing

bluing

brewing

chewing

cooing

doing

drawing

lawing

mowing

screwing

suing

couching

longing

slouching

smoothing

soothing

tokens

acting

asking

boarding

bouncing

bounding

boxing

buckling

costing

coursing

crackling

daunting

dockings

duckling

faulting

fixing

forcing

forming

founding

frosting

grounding

heckling

hoarding

horning

hounding

housings

makings

malting

marking

morning

morphing

mounting

mourning

musings

ousting

parking

pickings

pointing

pouncing

pounding

rounding

salting

sharking

sounding

sporting

storming

suckling

tackling

takings

taunting

vaulting

vikings

warling

warming

warning

warping

weakling

ailing

airing

awning

bagging

baiting

barring

batting

beading

beaming

bearing

beating

bedding

belling

bidding

biding

billing

biting

blaring

blazing

bleeding

bleeping

blessing

bracing

braiding

braving

breeding

briefing

brimming

budding

burning

burping

butting

calming

caning

casing

ceiling

chafing

chasing

chilling

chipping

chirping

chopping

churning

cleaning

clearing

climbing

clipping

clogging

codding

colling

coming

craving

creeping

cribbing

culling

cunning

curing

curling

cutting

damning

daring

dealing

derring

dicing

digging

dilling

dining

dipping

diving

dragging

draining

dressing

drilling

dripping

driving

dropping

drugging

drumming

dubbing

during

dwelling

earning

earring

easing

eating

erring

facing

fading

failing

falling

feeding

feeling

fehling

feigning

fighting

filing

filling

fining

firing

fitting

flagging

flaming

flaring

fleeting

fleming

flitting

flogging

flooding

footing

framing

freezing

gadding

gaming

gassing

gearing

getting

ginning

girding

giving

glaring

glazing

grading

grating

grayling

grazing

greening

greeting

grieving

gunning

having

heading

healing

hearing

heating

heaving

herring

hiding

hilling

hissing

hitting

hopping

hugging

humming

hurling

hurting

icing

inning

jailing

jarring

jeering

jetting

jogging

jutting

keeling

keeping

kenning

killing

knitting

lading

lagging

lapping

laughing

leading

leaning

leaping

learning

leasing

legging

lemming

lighting

lining

living

lopping

loving

madding

mailing

mapping

matting

meaning

meeting

milling

mining

missing

mooring

mugging

nagging

napping

netting

nipping

nodding

nursing

nutting

pacing

padding

pairing

panning

paring

passing

paving

pegging

petting

phasing

phrasing

piling

pining

piping

plating

pleading

pleasing

plodding

plugging

plumbing

popping

pressing

priming

pudding

puffing

putting

quilling

racing

railing

raising

raving

reading

ribbing

riding

rigging

rising

rubbing

running

sagging

sailing

saving

scaling

scarring

scheming

schilling

scraping

screaming

screening

seating

seeling

seeming

seizing

serving

setting

shading

shaving

shearing

shedding

sheeting

shelling

shilling

shining

shipping

shirting

shredding

siding

sighting

signing

sitting

sizing

skilling

skimming

skirting

slapping

slating

sledding

sleeping

sliding

slighting

slitting

slotting

smelling

snapping

sneezing

sniffing

sobbing

sopping

sparing

spelling

sperling

spinning

spurling

squeezing

stating

staving

stealing

steering

sterling

stopping

straining

strapping

streaming

stripping

striving

strutting

stuffing

stunning

swearing

sweating

sweeping

sweeting

swelling

swimming

tailing

tanning

teaming

teeming

telling

thrilling

tiding

tipping

topping

tracing

trading

trailing

training

trilling

trimming

tripping

turning

twining

veering

veiling

wading

waiting

waning

wapping

wearing

weaving

webbing

wedding

weeding

weeping

whaling

wheeling

whipping

whirling

whiting

whopping

willing

winning

wiring

wording

writing

yachting

yearling

yearning

yelling

forging

launching

nanking

shrinking

sinking

stinking

drinking

franking

banking

planking

scorching

spanking

thinking

aging

akins

banging

bathing

beijing

being

birthing

bitching

bleaching

blushing

breathing

breeching

brushing

buying

catching

clanging

cosens

crashing

crushing

crying

dashing

dishing

drying

dyeing

dying

edging

etching

fetching

fishing

fixings

flashing

flushing

flying

foundling

fraying

frying

groundling

gushing

hanging

hatching

judging

lakins

lashing

latching

laying

likins

lodging

lying

matching

merging

nothing

paging

patching

paying

peeing

pitching

playing

plaything

praying

preaching

prying

purging

pushing

raging

ringing

saying

scratching

searching

seeing

sheathing

shoestring

sighing

singing

sparkling

springing

staging

stinging

stirring

stitching

stretching

swaying

switching

teaching

teething

thrashing

tithing

touching

trying

tying

vying

washing

weighing

wishing

witching

wringing

inkling

sprinkling

arming

banding

basting

belting

bending

binding

blasting

blending

blinding

bonding

breasting

building

bunting

camping

carling

carping

carving

casings

casting

chanting

charming

coupling

cresting

cuddling

dancing

darling

drafting

ending

evening

facings

fainting

farming

fencing

fielding

finding

funding

gilding

glancing

glinting

golfing

grafting

grappling

grasping

grinding

harping

helping

hunting

jumping

kipling

lamping

landing

lasting

leggings

lending

lifting

lightning

listing

lumping

melting

mincing

minding

muggings

oceans

painting

panting

parting

pelting

pending

piercing

pimping

planting

printing

pumping

quilting

rafting

resting

rifling

riggings

romping

sapling

scalping

scrimping

seedling

shafting

shelving

shifting

shuffling

shunting

sibling

slanting

smelting

snarling

sparling

spending

squinting

stamping

standing

starling

starting

straddling

stripling

tamping

tasting

testing

thrusting

thumping

tilting

trifling

trusting

twisting

vesting

wanting

wasting

whistling

whitling

wielding

wilding

wincing

winding

wrestling

yielding

offspring

succinct

arching

branching

bulging

bushings

earthling

farthing

fledgling

lashings

lunching

marching

pinching

something

teachings

handling

dumpling

kindling

nestling

rambling

tempting

westling

beacons

beckons

begins

biggins

chickens

deacons

hogans

lichens

likens

loosens

lykens

nuisance

picnic

poisons

quickens

reckons

technic

thickens

weakens

angling

buckskins

pigskins

lozenge

hamstring

wellspring

gascons

picnics

saxons

sequence

sequins

technics

vaccines

basins

becomes

caissons

cocoons

cousins

dozens

essence

icons

lessens

lessons

license

masons

peacenik

pecans

raccoons

reasons

resins

raisins

seasons

technique

toughens

tycoons

vegans

wagons

cajuns

cushions

fashions

machines

passions

legions

sessions

lesions

russians

asians

regions

exchange

maxims

askance

against

techniques

licensed

cognac

regains

rhizomes

magness

pygmies

racemes

mesons

eggnog

possums

cuisines

missions

pigeons

regimes

rejoins

visions

exhumes

eggnogs

vacuums

assumes

bygones

dismays

isms

lagoons

resumes

schisms

legumes

mishmash

3 syllable words

motoring

cowering

flowering

glowering

souring

towering

crocheting

opposing

opening

opining

profiling

lawmaking

bickering

billowing

carousing

echoing

following

mellowing

powdering

shadowing

toweling

watering

winnowing

sojourning

soldiering

jockeying

narrowing

neutering

offering

pickering

seagoing

yellowing

composing

consoling

foreboding

forwarding

housekeeping

imposing

layering

networking

oncoming

patrolling

railroading

revolting

sleepwalking

bushwhacking

appalling

assuming

concurring

correcting

factoring

faltering

laundering

adoring

ballooning

becoming

cackling

crusading

cycling

freewheeling

ongoing

ordering

outgoing

quickening

polluting

sickening

approaching

seducing

beholding

outlying

reckoning

reducing

softening

surrounding

thickening

ticketing

broadcasting

enclosing

engrossing

forecasting

hardworking

shortcoming

adjoining

belonging

churchgoing

conquering

rejoicing

tinkering

wrongdoing

arriving

annoying

battering

bettering

buffeting

bullying

canoeing

caressing

chattering

covering

dairying

dialing

coloring

copying

carrying

diapering

doddering

favoring

flattering

flavoring

glimmering

ironing

journeying

laboring

lettering

murmuring

neighboring

papering

peppering

pitying

scattering

shimmering

smattering

soldering

stuttering

suffering

surveying

tailoring

tapering

forthcoming

varying

abounding

according

accusing

affecting

amusing

approving

backbiting

blackmailing

bloodsucking

bookkeeping

commuting

connecting

consuming

counseling

darkening

declining

decreasing

defusing

dissecting

dissolving

downsizing

dressmaking

equating

erecting

exceeding

exciting

good-looking

housewarming

incoming

lactating

marketing

mistaking

nerve-racking

offsetting

outfitting

outpouring

pronouncing

reclining

recording

shortening

succeeding

unwilling

unwitting

badgering

feathering

gathering

butchering

groundbreaking

issuing

measuring

mothering

nourishing

wagering

weathering

withering

blanketing

brainwashing

carjacking

matchmaking

packinghouse

tinkling

twinkling

warehousing

abiding

agreeing

alerting

aligning

alluring

amazing

annealing

appealing

arresting

asserting

baffling

battening

befitting

beginning

beguiling

believing

besetting

blistering

blossoming

blundering

blustering

bottling

bubbling

bustling

centering

channeling

conveying

landholding

cogency

colouring

cradling

crippling

deadening

deafening

debating

delighting

deserving

designing

detailing

discerning

diverting

dividing

divining

doubling

drizzling

emitting

ensuing

forgiving

entering

fastening

forbidding

galloping

glistening

governing

happening

highflying

juggling

laughingly

leavening

lessening

leveling

lightening

listening

lumbering

maddening

meddling

middling

modeling

mottling

muscling

paneling

peddling

pervading

piddling

pilfering

plastering

pondering

preceding

presiding

prevailing

proceeding

profiting

promising

quarreling

raveling

reasoning

relieving

rendering

repeating

retiring

reversing

reviving

riveting

scribbling

seasoning

settling

sizzling

stiffening

surpassing

surviving

sweetening

tabling

tempering

threatening

thundering

traversing

undoing

undying

visiting

vomiting

wandering

well-being

whispering

whitening

abducting

absorbing

accenting

afflicting

astounding

attracting

backsliding

compounding

conforming

confounding

confusing

contacting

dumbfounding

exacting

excepting

exhausting

expelling

expiring

imploring

importing

improving

increasing

installing

painstaking

perplexing

reflecting

respecting

tormenting

assuring

awakens

damaging

anything

arranging

beseeching

besieging

conjuring

cushioning

diverging

fingering

finishing

machining

maturing

pachinko

lingering

polishing

ravishing

vanishing

alarming

bullfighting

complying

conceding

concerning

confiding

disguising

hardening

infighting

kidnapping

conflicting

bumbling

despairing

gambling

conserving

dampening

easterling

endearing

gardening

life-giving

contracting

expanding

campaigning

carpeting

degrading

departing

invading

inviting

exploring

ascending

bloodletting

descending

dwindling

erupting

heartbreaking

admiring

comforting

commanding

disarming

disengage

dissenting

emptying

enticing

fondling

inserting

lamenting

transporting

aspiring

bundling

misgiving

misleading

mumbling

observing

parceling

pardoning

persisting

regarding

relapsing

resisting

revolving

rumbling

scaffolding

surprising

trembling

trumpeting

tumbling

landscaping

scrambling

technician

typesetting

typewriting

unfailing

unfeeling

uprising

distracting

underling

upsetting

languishing

outstanding

unthinking

bungling

challenging

converging

engaging

everything

laconic

mackenzie

marshaling

mechanic

mechanize

museums

obliging

refreshing

scavenging

thanksgiving

vacancy

disgusting

eugenic

dissembling

distressing

engraving

constricting

childbearing

complaining

completing

consulting

convincing

disengaged

enduring

enlisting

existing

exulting

insulting

laughingstock

strengthening

unsparing

reconquer

handwriting

harvesting

shipbuilding

unbending

unyielding

frustrating

hairdressing

impending

investing

misspelling

shoplifting

technicians

inspiring

vacancies

begonias

nuisances

enchanting

reconcile

technical

mechanics

axioms

bassoonist

likenesses

eavesdropping

imprinting

interesting

eugenics

lozenges

unflinching

disconcert

disincline

misconceive

disconnect

equinox

reconciles

sequences

technicals

agonize

decency

masonic

licenser

licensee

agonies

agency

disconnects

exchanger

licensure

magnesia

messenger

misconstrue

passenger

regency

agonist

agonized

dismisses

maximize

weaknesses

dismissal

dismissive

hygienist

licensees

licenses

exchangers

agencies

machinist

passengers

deconstruct

exchanges

asuncion

messengers

misconstrues

reconstruct

ascension

agnostic

agonists

businesslike

cognizance

cognizant

dismissals

hygienists

pessimists

technocrat

machinists

agnostics

bookmaker

liaisons

technocrats

fijians

issuance

bookmakers

businesses

dishonest

iguanas

magnesite

pacemakers

peacemakers

dissension

businessman

taskmaster

agincourt

casinos

peacemaker

diagnose

pacemaker

eskimos

pessimist

4 syllable words

overcoming

overlying

notifying

awakening

overruling

overflowing

overpowering

overrating

overlapping

overbearing

diagnosing

overhauling

oceangoing

overarching

waterproofing

coexisting

overwhelming

unassuming

bicycling

bewildering

nonrecurring

suffocating

occupying

inquiring

fireproofing

discouraging

encouraging

parachuting

activating

barbecuing

circulating

disappointing

disapproving

edifying

encircling

gratifying

interlocking

liberating

maximizing

moderating

mountaineering

oceanic

operating

pioneering

realizing

reentering

separating

unbecoming

undertaking

speechifying

fluctuating

executing

implicating

calculating

complicating

corresponding

disconcerting

encompassing

intersecting

annotating

appetizing

babysitting

delegating

detonating

agonizing

developing

disabling

disappearing

dominating

domineering

fascinating

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unavailing

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laminating

oscillating

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underlying

mitigating

never-ending

obviating

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agitating

energizing

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registering

distributing

advertising

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captivating

devastating

denigrating

embarrassing

emphasizing

enlightening

entertaining

enveloping

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examining

interviewing

palpitating

patronizing

unbelieving

underwriting

penetrating

underpinning

unremitting

astonishing

disengaging

disparaging

engineering

inheriting

inhibiting

merchandising

legislating

undulating

admonishing

conditioning

partitioning

centralizing

integrating

mechanical

condescending

mechanically

enterprising

mechanism

reconsider

notwithstanding

diagnoses

technicolor

technically

unrelenting

disheartening

issuances

disengagement

mechanisms

understanding

maximizes

fingerprinting

messianic

businesswoman

disconnected

distinguishing

disconnection

agonizes

magnesium

paganism

pessimism

misconception

diagnostic

pessimistic

exchangeable

reconstructive

deconstruction

disenchantment

misconceptions

reconstruction

reconstructions

diagnostics

iconoclast

dishonesty

desensitize

dishonestly

desensitized

Words that rhyme with the word poking

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/