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

beading

bleeding

breeding

feeding

leading

pleading

reading

weeding

breathing

sheathing

teething

beaming

bidding

biding

bleeping

readings

seedling

yielding

beating

braiding

briefing

ceiling

cleaning

creaking

creeping

dealing

easing

eating

eking

fading

feeling

fleeting

freaking

freezing

grading

greening

greeting

grieving

healing

hearing

heating

heaving

hiding

jeering

keeling

keeping

lading

leaking

leaning

leaping

leasing

meaning

meeting

peaking

pleasing

riding

scheming

screaming

screening

seating

seeling

seeming

seizing

shading

sheeting

siding

sleeping

sliding

sneaking

sneezing

speaking

squeezing

stealing

streaming

sweeping

sweeting

teaming

tiding

voiding

fielding

teeming

trading

wading

weaving

weeping

feedings

wielding

wheeling

being

peeing

seeing

bathing

bleaching

breeching

preaching

teaching

tithing

beatings

binding

blinding

building

evening

finding

gilding

grinding

meetings

minding

ridings

seatings

shadings

tidings

weakling

wilding

winding

aching

ailing

baiting

baking

bedding

billing

biting

blazing

boiling

bracing

braving

breaking

brimming

broiling

brooding

budding

caning

casing

chafing

chasing

chilling

chipping

clearing

climbing

clipping

clouding

codding

coiling

craving

cribbing

dicing

digging

dilling

dining

dipping

diving

draining

drilling

dripping

driving

earring

facing

failing

feigning

fighting

filing

filling

fining

firing

fitting

flaming

flitting

flooding

foiling

framing

gadding

gaming

gearing

ginning

girding

giving

glazing

grating

grayling

grazing

heading

hilling

hissing

hitting

icing

inning

jailing

kicking

killing

knitting

licking

lighting

liking

lining

living

loading

madding

mailing

making

milling

mining

missing

nipping

nodding

pacing

padding

paving

phasing

phrasing

picking

piling

pining

piping

plating

plodding

priming

pudding

quaking

quilling

racing

railing

raising

raking

raving

ribbing

rigging

rising

sailing

saving

scaling

schilling

scraping

shaving

shearing

shedding

shilling

shining

shipping

shredding

shrouding

sighting

signing

sitting

sizing

skilling

skimming

slating

sledding

slighting

slitting

sniffing

spinning

stating

staving

steering

sticking

straining

striking

stripping

striving

swimming

tailing

taking

thrilling

ticking

tipping

tracing

trailing

training

tricking

trilling

trimming

tripping

twining

veering

veiling

viking

waiting

waking

waning

wedding

whaling

whipping

whiting

willing

winning

wiring

wording

writing

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

buying

crying

drying

dyeing

dying

flying

fraying

frying

laying

lying

paying

playing

praying

prying

saying

sighing

swaying

trying

tying

vying

weighing

aging

beijing

bitching

clothing

dishing

edens

fishing

paging

pitching

plaything

raging

ringing

singing

smoothing

soothing

springing

staging

stinging

stitching

switching

wishing

witching

wringing

kindling

boarding

bonding

bounding

cuddling

banding

basting

ending

bending

blending

fainting

fittings

fixing

folding

founding

funding

glinting

golding

grounding

headings

hoarding

holding

hounding

kipling

lightning

landing

lending

lifting

listing

loadings

mincing

moulding

painting

pending

piercing

pimping

pointing

pounding

printing

puddings

quilting

rifling

rounding

scolding

scrimping

shifting

sibling

sounding

spending

squinting

standing

straddling

stripling

tasting

tilting

trifling

twisting

wasting

weddings

whistling

whitings

whitling

wincing

airing

awning

backing

bagging

barring

batting

bearing

belling

blaring

blessing

blocking

blooming

boating

bolling

boning

booming

booting

boozing

boring

bowling

brawling

broking

browning

browsing

bruting

bucking

burning

burping

butting

calling

calming

caulking

chirping

choking

chopping

churning

cloaking

clocking

clogging

closing

clowning

clucking

coating

cocking

colling

combing

coming

cooking

cooling

coping

cracking

crooning

crossing

culling

cunning

curing

curling

cutting

damning

daring

dawning

derring

docking

doting

doubting

dragging

dressing

dropping

drugging

drumming

dubbing

ducking

dueling

during

dwelling

earning

erring

falling

fehling

flagging

flaring

fleming

floating

flogging

flooring

foaming

footing

fruiting

fucking

fuming

galling

gassing

getting

glaring

gloaming

grooming

grouping

grouting

gunning

having

herring

hogging

holing

homing

hopping

housing

hugging

humming

hurling

hurting

jarring

jerking

jetting

jogging

joking

jutting

kenning

knocking

lagging

lapping

laughing

learning

legging

lemming

loaning

logging

looking

looming

looping

lopping

loring

losing

loving

mapping

matting

mocking

mooring

moving

mugging

musing

muting

nagging

napping

netting

nosing

nursing

nutting

offing

oozing

outing

packing

pairing

panning

paring

passing

pegging

petting

plugging

plumbing

poking

poling

polling

pooling

popping

pouting

pressing

prowling

pruning

puffing

putting

racking

roaring

rocking

rolling

roofing

rousing

roving

rubbing

ruling

running

sacking

sagging

scarring

schooling

serving

setting

shelling

shirting

shocking

shooting

shoring

skirting

slapping

sloping

slotting

smacking

smelling

smoking

snapping

snoring

soaking

soaring

sobbing

sopping

sparing

spelling

sperling

spurling

stacking

stalling

sterling

stocking

stooping

stopping

stowing

strapping

stroking

strutting

stuffing

stunning

sucking

suiting

swearing

sweating

swelling

swooning

tacking

talking

tanning

telling

tooling

topping

tossing

trucking

tubing

tuning

turning

voting

walking

walling

wapping

wearing

webbing

whacking

whirling

whooping

whopping

working

wrecking

yachting

yearling

yearning

yelling

drinking

farthing

pinching

shrinking

sinking

stinking

thinking

banging

beatnik

birthing

blowing

blueing

bluing

blushing

bowing

brewing

brushing

cadence

catching

chewing

clanging

coaching

cooing

couching

crashing

crowing

crushing

dashing

doing

drawing

edging

etching

fetching

flashing

flowing

flushing

foundling

glowing

going

groundling

growing

guidance

gushing

handling

hanging

hatching

hoodwink

judging

knowing

lashing

latching

lawing

loathing

lodging

longing

lowing

maidens

matching

merging

mowing

nothing

owing

patching

purging

pushing

riddance

scratching

screwing

searching

sewing

showing

slouching

stirring

stretching

suing

sweetens

thrashing

throwing

touching

washing

widens

inkling

sprinkling

acting

arming

asking

belting

blasting

boasting

bolting

bouncing

boxing

breasting

buckling

bunting

camping

carling

carping

carving

casting

chanting

charming

coasting

coatings

coaxing

costing

coupling

coursing

crackling

cresting

cuttings

dancing

darling

daunting

drafting

duckling

farming

faulting

fencing

footings

forcing

forming

frosting

gettings

glancing

golfing

grafting

grappling

grasping

harping

heckling

helping

horning

hosting

hunting

jumping

lamping

lasting

lumping

malting

marking

melting

molting

morning

morphing

mounting

mourning

ousting

outings

panting

parking

parting

pelting

planting

posting

pouncing

pumping

rafting

resting

roasting

romping

salting

sapling

scalping

settings

shafting

sharking

shelving

shootings

shuffling

shunting

slanting

smelting

snarling

sparling

sporting

stamping

starling

starting

steamship

storming

suckling

tackling

tamping

taunting

testing

thrusting

thumping

toasting

trusting

vaulting

vesting

wanting

warling

warming

warning

warping

wrestling

arching

banking

branching

beatniks

bulging

earthling

fledgling

forging

franking

launching

lunching

marching

nanking

nothings

planking

scorching

something

spanking

dumpling

nestling

rambling

shoestring

sparkling

tempting

westling

pitons

saddens

satans

sedans

titans

angling

stinger

haitians

nations

patience

hamstring

wellspring

offspring

stingers

buttons

cottons

items

latins

midnight

satins

sedums

stances

stencil

adams

modems

redeems

ethnic

notions

potions

motions

lotions

rations

cautions

stinkers

pathans

ethnics

stingy

batons

atoms

bottoms

daytimes

kittens

mittens

wednesday

retains

routines

stanzas

totems

pittance

fathoms

betweens

wednesdays

attains

kidneys

nutmeg

rhythms

stanza

stomach

stomachs

utmost

3 syllable words

seagoing

layering

withering

conceding

degrading

exceeding

invading

misleading

succeeding

abiding

annealing

appealing

beguiling

believing

designing

detailing

delighting

forbidding

freewheeling

prevailing

retiring

piddling

reasoning

relieving

repeating

reviving

seasoning

seducing

sweetening

cradling

middling

crusading

pervading

arriving

bickering

billowing

bullying

carrying

copying

dairying

dialing

diapering

doddering

favoring

flavoring

glimmering

ironing

jockeying

papering

rejoicing

journeying

laboring

neighboring

beseeching

machining

pickering

pitying

powdering

shadowing

shimmering

soldering

besieging

tailoring

tapering

anything

varying

winnowing

unyielding

bookkeeping

confiding

cowering

declining

decreasing

defusing

descending

disguising

dwindling

easterling

endearing

equating

erupting

exciting

feathering

flowering

gathering

glowering

housekeeping

infighting

inviting

issuing

kidnapping

lowering

mediums

mistaking

mothering

nourishing

railroading

reclining

regarding

revolting

revolving

sleepwalking

souring

towering

unfeeling

wagering

weathering

adoring

agreeing

aligning

amazing

becoming

befitting

beginning

besetting

blistering

blundering

crippling

cycling

everything

deadening

debating

deserving

discerning

diverting

divining

drizzling

emitting

forgiving

glistening

highflying

laundering

lawmaking

lightening

listening

locating

maddening

meddling

modeling

opining

ordering

peddling

pilfering

pondering

profiling

quickening

reducing

rendering

reversing

riveting

scribbling

sickening

sizzling

stiffening

thundering

beholding

surrounding

tabling

surviving

thickening

eavesdropping

ticketing

undoing

undying

visiting

wandering

well-being

whispering

whitening

wittingly

backsliding

childbearing

completing

engraving

expiring

impending

increasing

inspiring

respecting

shipbuilding

adjoining

arranging

belonging

damaging

diverging

fingering

finishing

lingering

polishing

ravishing

soothingly

tinkering

vanishing

wrongdoing

annoying

battering

bettering

buffeting

canoeing

caressing

carousing

chattering

coloring

covering

echoing

flattering

following

lettering

mellowing

motoring

murmuring

narrowing

neutering

offering

peppering

scattering

smattering

stuttering

suffering

surveying

toweling

watering

yellowing

abounding

according

accusing

admiring

amusing

ascending

aspiring

backbiting

blackmailing

bloodletting

bloodsucking

bullfighting

bundling

campaigning

commanding

commuting

departing

despairing

disarming

dissecting

dissenting

dissolving

downsizing

dressmaking

emptying

enticing

erecting

fondling

foreboding

forwarding

gardening

good-looking

hardening

imposing

incoming

inserting

lactating

life-giving

misgiving

outfitting

pardoning

persisting

recording

relapsing

resisting

scaffolding

surprising

typesetting

typewriting

underling

unfailing

unwilling

unwitting

uprising

audience

badgering

butchering

crocheting

expanding

idioms

measuring

brainwashing

engaging

matchmaking

obliging

refreshing

tinkling

twinkling

alerting

alluring

appalling

arresting

asserting

assuming

baffling

ballooning

battening

blossoming

blustering

bottling

bubbling

bustling

channeling

conveying

correcting

ensuing

entering

factoring

faltering

fastening

cackling

centering

colouring

concurring

deafening

doubling

galloping

governing

happening

leavening

muscling

leveling

ongoing

opening

lessening

juggling

lumbering

mottling

opposing

outgoing

polluting

provoking

outlying

paneling

plastering

profiting

promising

quarreling

raveling

reckoning

settling

softening

surpassing

tempering

threatening

traversing

vomiting

abducting

afflicting

astounding

broadcasting

complaining

convincing

disgusting

compounding

confounding

confusing

dissembling

distressing

dumbfounding

enduring

engrossing

enlisting

exacting

exhausting

existing

expelling

exulting

frustrating

hairdressing

handwriting

hardworking

imploring

importing

improving

installing

insulting

investing

misspelling

painstaking

reflecting

shoplifting

unbending

sojourning

soldiering

churchgoing

cushioning

cadences

assuring

conquering

conjuring

maturing

admission

affecting

alarming

approving

bumbling

carpeting

comforting

complying

composing

concerning

connecting

conserving

consoling

consuming

counseling

gambling

lamenting

marketing

dampening

darkening

housewarming

mumbling

nerve-racking

networking

observing

offsetting

oncoming

outpouring

parceling

patrolling

pronouncing

rhythmically

rumbling

scrambling

conflicting

shortening

distracting

upsetting

trembling

exploring

heartbreaking

imprinting

interesting

outstanding

tumbling

landscaping

trumpeting

groundbreaking

languishing

approaching

bedouins

blanketing

bungling

bushwhacking

carjacking

challenging

converging

hedonic

landholding

latency

marshaling

matinees

podiums

scavenging

thanksgiving

titanic

unflinching

warehousing

excepting

admissions

conforming

forecasting

consulting

contacting

enclosing

absorbing

perplexing

strengthening

shortcoming

attracting

accenting

harvesting

tormenting

unsparing

constricting

forthcoming

satanist

enchanting

contracting

transporting

unthinking

teutonic

itemize

potency

tuitions

utensil

botanist

ethnical

ethnically

botanists

atmosphere

utensils

diatoms

stonecutter

cottonseed

stonecutters

witnesses

litanies

mutinies

4 syllable words

realizing

liberating

reentering

speechifying

appetizing

disabling

inquiring

irritating

obviating

readmission

babysitting

bewildering

mitigating

edifying

moderating

operating

pioneering

separating

denigrating

unbelieving

disappointing

interviewing

captivating

barbecuing

hedonism

disengaging

legislating

annotating

agonizing

awakening

bicycling

delegating

detonating

developing

disappearing

diagnosing

dominating

domineering

fascinating

fireproofing

hesitating

laminating

never-ending

nonrecurring

persevering

occupying

oscillating

overrating

suffocating

unavailing

underlying

vacillating

condescending

implicating

integrating

unrelenting

agitating

discouraging

encouraging

energizing

hedonistic

petitioning

registering

activating

advertising

aggravating

circulating

coexisting

devastating

disapproving

dispiriting

distributing

embarrassing

emphasizing

enlightening

entertaining

enveloping

examining

gratifying

interlocking

maximizing

mountaineering

notifying

overlying

palpitating

patronizing

penetrating

unbecoming

underpinning

undertaking

underwriting

unremitting

admonishing

inhibiting

audiences

inheriting

undulating

partitioning

astonishing

engineering

fluctuating

merchandising

conditioning

disparaging

calculating

complicating

disconcerting

corresponding

centralizing

enterprising

executing

intersecting

overbearing

overcoming

overflowing

overruling

overlapping

overpowering

notwithstanding

unassuming

parachuting

disheartening

overarching

oceangoing

eyewitnesses

overhauling

diatomic

diatonic

understanding

encircling

everlasting

fingerprinting

overwhelming

waterproofing

distinguishing

encompassing

itemizes

satanism

admissible

petunias

botanical

mademoiselle

stenographer

ethnocentric

atomizer

Words that rhyme with the word reading

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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