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

browsing

housing

rousing

boozing

browning

closing

clouding

clowning

grouting

housings

doubting

losing

musing

nosing

oozing

outing

pouting

prowling

rising

shrouding

sizing

mowing

couching

slouching

bouncing

bounding

founding

grounding

hounding

mounting

musings

ousting

pouncing

pounding

rounding

sounding

awning

backing

bagging

barring

batting

biding

biting

blazing

blocking

blooming

boating

bolling

boning

booming

booting

boring

bowling

brawling

broking

brooding

bruting

bucking

budding

butting

calling

calming

caulking

choking

chopping

climbing

cloaking

clocking

clogging

clucking

coating

cocking

codding

colling

combing

coming

cooling

coping

cracking

crooning

crossing

culling

cunning

cutting

damning

dawning

dicing

dining

diving

docking

doting

dragging

driving

dropping

drugging

drumming

dubbing

ducking

dueling

easing

falling

fighting

filing

fining

firing

flagging

floating

flogging

flooding

flooring

foaming

freezing

fruiting

fucking

fuming

gadding

galling

gassing

glazing

gloaming

grazing

grooming

grouping

gunning

having

hiding

hogging

holing

homing

hopping

hugging

humming

icing

jarring

jogging

joking

jutting

knocking

lagging

lapping

laughing

lighting

liking

lining

loading

loaning

logging

looming

looping

lopping

loring

loving

madding

mapping

matting

mining

mocking

moving

mugging

muting

nagging

napping

nodding

nutting

offing

packing

padding

panning

passing

phasing

phrasing

piling

pining

piping

pleasing

plodding

plugging

plumbing

poking

poling

polling

pooling

popping

priming

pruning

puffing

putting

racking

raising

riding

roaring

rocking

rolling

roofing

roving

rubbing

ruling

running

sacking

sagging

scarring

schooling

seizing

shining

shocking

shooting

shoring

siding

sighting

signing

slapping

sliding

slighting

sloping

slotting

smacking

smoking

snapping

sneezing

snoring

soaking

soaring

sobbing

sopping

squeezing

stacking

stalling

stocking

stooping

stopping

stowing

strapping

striking

striving

stroking

strutting

stuffing

stunning

sucking

suiting

swooning

tacking

talking

tanning

tiding

tooling

topping

tossing

trucking

tubing

tuning

twining

viking

voting

walking

walling

wapping

whacking

whiting

whooping

whopping

wiring

writing

yachting

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

blowing

blueing

bluing

bowing

brewing

buying

chewing

cooing

crowing

crying

doing

drawing

drying

dyeing

dying

flowing

flying

frying

glowing

going

growing

knowing

lawing

lowing

lying

owing

prying

screwing

sewing

showing

sighing

suing

throwing

trying

tying

vying

banging

beijing

blushing

brushing

catching

clanging

clothing

coaching

crashing

crushing

dashing

flashing

flushing

gushing

hanging

hatching

judging

lashing

latching

loathing

lodging

longing

matching

nothing

patching

scratching

smoothing

soothing

thrashing

tithing

touching

washing

foundling

groundling

acting

arming

asking

banding

binding

blasting

blinding

boarding

boasting

bolting

bonding

boxing

buckling

carling

coaxing

bunting

camping

carping

carving

casting

chanting

charming

coasting

costing

coupling

coursing

crackling

cuddling

dancing

darling

daunting

dockings

drafting

duckling

farming

faulting

finding

folding

forcing

forming

frosting

funding

glancing

golding

golfing

grafting

grappling

grasping

grinding

harping

hoarding

holding

horning

hosting

hunting

jumping

lamping

landing

lasting

lightning

lumping

malting

marking

minding

molting

morning

morphing

moulding

mourning

muggings

panting

parking

parting

planting

posting

pumping

rafting

rifling

salting

sapling

roasting

romping

scalping

scolding

shafting

sharking

shuffling

shunting

slanting

snarling

sparling

sporting

stamping

standing

starling

starting

storming

straddling

suckling

tackling

tamping

taunting

thrusting

thumping

toasting

trifling

trusting

vaulting

vikings

wanting

warling

warming

warning

warping

wilding

winding

aching

ailing

airing

baiting

baking

beading

beaming

bearing

beating

bedding

belling

bidding

billing

blaring

bleeding

bleeping

blessing

boiling

bracing

braiding

braving

breaking

breeding

briefing

brimming

broiling

burning

burping

caning

casing

ceiling

chafing

chasing

chilling

chipping

chirping

churning

cleaning

clearing

clipping

coiling

cooking

craving

creaking

creeping

cribbing

curing

curling

daring

dealing

derring

digging

dilling

dipping

draining

dressing

drilling

dripping

during

dwelling

earning

earring

eating

eking

erring

facing

fading

failing

feeding

feeling

fehling

feigning

filling

fitting

flaming

flaring

fleeting

fleming

flitting

foiling

footing

framing

freaking

gaming

gearing

getting

ginning

girding

giving

glaring

grading

grating

grayling

greening

greeting

grieving

heading

healing

hearing

heating

heaving

herring

hilling

hissing

hitting

hurling

hurting

inning

jailing

jeering

jerking

jetting

keeling

keeping

kenning

kicking

killing

knitting

lading

leading

leaking

leaning

leaping

learning

leasing

legging

lemming

licking

living

looking

mailing

making

meaning

meeting

milling

missing

mooring

netting

nipping

nursing

pacing

pairing

paring

paving

peaking

pegging

petting

picking

plating

pleading

pressing

pudding

quaking

quilling

racing

railing

raking

raving

reading

ribbing

rigging

sailing

saving

scaling

scheming

schilling

scraping

screaming

screening

seating

seeling

seeming

serving

setting

shading

shaving

shearing

shedding

sheeting

shelling

shilling

shipping

shirting

shredding

sitting

skilling

skimming

skirting

slating

sledding

sleeping

slitting

smelling

sneaking

sniffing

sparing

speaking

spelling

sperling

spinning

spurling

stating

staving

stealing

steering

sterling

sticking

straining

streaming

stripping

swearing

sweating

sweeping

sweeting

swelling

swimming

tailing

taking

teaming

teeming

telling

thrilling

ticking

tipping

tracing

trading

trailing

training

tricking

trilling

trimming

tripping

turning

veering

veiling

voiding

wading

waiting

waking

waning

wearing

weaving

webbing

wedding

weeding

weeping

whaling

wheeling

whipping

whirling

willing

winning

wording

working

wrecking

yearling

yearning

yelling

arching

banking

branching

bulging

farthing

forging

franking

lashings

launching

lunching

marching

nanking

planking

scorching

something

spanking

aging

akins

bathing

being

birthing

bitching

bleaching

breathing

breeching

cousins

dishing

dozens

dumpling

edging

etching

fetching

fishing

fraying

handling

lakins

laying

merging

paging

paying

peeing

pitching

playing

plaything

praying

preaching

purging

pushing

raging

rambling

ringing

saying

searching

seeing

sheathing

shoestring

singing

sparkling

springing

staging

stinging

stirring

stitching

stretching

swaying

switching

teaching

teething

weighing

wishing

witching

wringing

angling

basting

belting

bending

blending

breasting

building

casings

cresting

ending

evening

facings

fainting

fencing

fielding

fixing

gilding

glinting

heckling

helping

kipling

leggings

lending

lifting

listing

lozenge

makings

melting

mincing

painting

pelting

pending

pickings

piercing

pimping

pointing

printing

quilting

resting

riggings

scrimping

seedling

shelving

shifting

sibling

smelting

spending

squinting

stripling

takings

tasting

testing

tilting

twisting

vesting

wasting

weakling

whistling

whitling

wielding

wincing

wrestling

yielding

hamstring

offspring

succinct

bushings

drinking

earthling

fledgling

pinching

shrinking

sinking

teachings

thinking

stinking

fixings

tempting

westling

kindling

nestling

begins

biggins

cosens

cuisines

license

lichens

likens

likins

loosens

lykens

nuisance

poisons

raisins

reasons

resins

seasons

tokens

toughens

wagons

buckskins

inkling

sprinkling

asians

fashions

lesions

oceans

passions

regimes

russians

wellspring

against

gascons

licensed

saxons

pigskins

hogans

picnic

rhizomes

magness

peacenik

isms

mesons

schisms

technic

sequence

picnics

sequins

technics

basins

beacons

beckons

chickens

assumes

caissons

cocoons

cognac

deacons

eggnog

essence

lessens

lessons

masons

pecans

pygmies

quickens

raccoons

lagoons

reckons

resumes

technique

thickens

tycoons

vegans

weakens

cajuns

cushions

legions

missions

pigeons

regions

sessions

visions

askance

vacuums

techniques

exchange

becomes

bygones

dismays

icons

possums

machines

eggnogs

legumes

maxims

mishmash

vaccines

exhumes

racemes

regains

rejoins

3 syllable words

powdering

toweling

lowering

accusing

amusing

composing

downsizing

outgoing

outlying

polluting

provoking

reducing

surrounding

ballooning

assuming

amazing

warehousing

annoying

arriving

battering

buffeting

canoeing

carrying

chattering

coloring

copying

covering

dialing

diapering

doddering

flattering

following

ironing

jockeying

motoring

neutering

offering

scattering

shadowing

smattering

soldering

stuttering

suffering

watering

confusing

abounding

approving

badgering

commuting

consoling

consuming

counseling

crocheting

defusing

disguising

foreboding

forwarding

gathering

housekeeping

housewarming

imposing

layering

measuring

mothering

observing

outfitting

outpouring

patrolling

pronouncing

surprising

unwilling

unwitting

uprising

abiding

adoring

agreeing

alerting

aligning

alluring

appealing

becoming

bottling

bustling

cackling

channeling

colouring

crippling

crusading

cycling

deadening

deafening

debating

annealing

appalling

asserting

baffling

battening

beguiling

blossoming

blundering

blustering

bubbling

concurring

conveying

cradling

delighting

deserving

dividing

doubling

approaching

designing

diverting

divining

drizzling

factoring

faltering

fastening

freewheeling

galloping

glistening

governing

happening

highflying

jokingly

juggling

laughingly

laundering

lawmaking

leavening

lessening

leveling

lightening

listening

locating

lumbering

maddening

meddling

middling

modeling

mottling

muscling

ongoing

opening

opining

ordering

paneling

peddling

piddling

plastering

pondering

presiding

proceeding

profiling

profiting

promising

quarreling

quickening

raveling

reasoning

reckoning

retiring

reviving

riveting

scribbling

seasoning

seducing

settling

sickening

sizzling

softening

stiffening

surpassing

surviving

sweetening

tabling

thickening

threatening

thundering

ticketing

traversing

undoing

undying

visiting

vomiting

wandering

whitening

absorbing

astounding

compounding

confounding

dumbfounding

enclosing

hardworking

adjoining

assuring

belonging

conjuring

conquering

cushioning

damaging

diverging

machining

maturing

pachinko

polishing

ravishing

sojourning

soldiering

vanishing

wrongdoing

bettering

bickering

bullying

caressing

billowing

dairying

echoing

favoring

flavoring

glimmering

journeying

laboring

lettering

mellowing

murmuring

narrowing

neighboring

papering

peppering

pickering

pitying

seagoing

shimmering

tailoring

tapering

varying

winnowing

yellowing

surveying

according

admiring

affecting

alarming

ascending

aspiring

backbiting

blackmailing

bloodletting

bloodsucking

bullfighting

bumbling

bundling

campaigning

carpeting

comforting

commanding

complying

conceding

concerning

confiding

connecting

conserving

dampening

darkening

declining

departing

disarming

dissecting

dissolving

dwindling

enticing

equating

erupting

exciting

fondling

gambling

gardening

hardening

incoming

infighting

inviting

kidnapping

lactating

lamenting

life-giving

marketing

mumbling

nerve-racking

networking

offsetting

oncoming

parceling

pardoning

railroading

reclining

recording

regarding

relapsing

resisting

revolting

revolving

rumbling

scaffolding

scrambling

shortening

sleepwalking

succeeding

trembling

trumpeting

tumbling

typesetting

typewriting

underling

unfailing

unfeeling

upsetting

languishing

butchering

feathering

outstanding

museums

wagering

withering

groundbreaking

issuing

nourishing

weathering

beholding

blanketing

brainwashing

bungling

bushwhacking

carjacking

challenging

converging

marshaling

matchmaking

obliging

packinghouse

scavenging

tinkling

twinkling

arresting

befitting

beginning

believing

besetting

blistering

centering

correcting

detailing

discerning

ensuing

emitting

entering

forbidding

forgiving

pervading

pilfering

preceding

prevailing

relieving

rendering

repeating

reversing

tempering

well-being

whispering

landholding

abducting

accenting

afflicting

attracting

backsliding

broadcasting

childbearing

complaining

completing

conforming

consulting

contacting

convincing

disgusting

engrossing

exacting

exhausting

existing

expiring

exulting

forecasting

frustrating

handwriting

harvesting

imploring

importing

improving

inspiring

installing

insulting

laughingstock

shoplifting

shortcoming

strengthening

tormenting

unbending

unsparing

unyielding

finishing

anything

arranging

awakens

churchgoing

bassoonist

fingering

enchanting

besieging

lingering

rejoicing

forthcoming

tinkering

beseeching

easterling

contracting

degrading

despairing

emptying

endearing

erecting

exceeding

lozenges

misgiving

mistaking

good-looking

conflicting

eavesdropping

descending

misleading

distracting

heartbreaking

dressmaking

exploring

invading

persisting

expanding

interesting

landscaping

bookkeeping

decreasing

dissenting

inserting

transporting

unthinking

disengage

agonies

agonize

cognizance

cognizant

engaging

everything

laconic

licensee

licenser

masonic

mechanic

refreshing

thanksgiving

unflinching

disengaged

dissembling

distressing

enduring

increasing

hairdressing

eugenic

engraving

impending

investing

licensure

enlisting

excepting

misspelling

painstaking

expelling

passenger

perplexing

reflecting

respecting

constricting

shipbuilding

cogency

agonist

licenses

nuisances

hygienist

licensees

likenesses

mechanics

imprinting

ascension

asuncion

eugenics

machinist

passengers

technician

agnostic

agonists

businesslike

businessman

disincline

hygienists

pessimists

agincourt

mackenzie

machinists

technicians

agnostics

magnesia

dismissal

businesses

dismisses

dismissive

magnesite

technical

dismissals

equinox

sequences

technicals

casinos

decency

mechanize

vacancy

agency

fijians

messenger

issuance

reconquer

regency

agonized

begonias

dishonest

eskimos

iguanas

reconcile

vacancies

agencies

dissension

messengers

disconcert

disconnect

misconceive

reconciles

taskmaster

disconnects

exchanger

misconstrue

diagnose

exchanges

liaisons

misconstrues

pacemaker

peacemaker

deconstruct

exchangers

reconstruct

axioms

weaknesses

maximize

technocrat

technocrats

bookmaker

bookmakers

pacemakers

peacemakers

pessimist

4 syllable words

realizing

awakening

overpowering

appetizing

agonizing

unassuming

diagnosing

fireproofing

energizing

parachuting

edifying

gratifying

moderating

notifying

operating

overlying

pioneering

patronizing

mountaineering

maximizing

advertising

coexisting

disapproving

emphasizing

waterproofing

speechifying

fluctuating

merchandising

bicycling

delegating

bewildering

annotating

detonating

disabling

disappearing

dominating

domineering

hesitating

nonrecurring

obviating

developing

mitigating

fascinating

inquiring

irritating

laminating

occupying

overbearing

overcoming

overflowing

overlapping

overruling

overrating

oscillating

persevering

suffocating

unavailing

underlying

vacillating

enterprising

executing

centralizing

agitating

discouraging

oceangoing

overarching

overhauling

petitioning

activating

aggravating

barbecuing

captivating

circulating

devastating

disappointing

embarrassing

encircling

enlightening

enveloping

everlasting

examining

interlocking

liberating

overwhelming

palpitating

penetrating

reentering

separating

unbecoming

unbelieving

underpinning

undertaking

underwriting

unremitting

agonizes

undulating

engineering

inhibiting

partitioning

magnesium

admonishing

astonishing

conditioning

inheriting

complicating

condescending

calculating

corresponding

integrating

disconcerting

encompassing

unrelenting

notwithstanding

babysitting

never-ending

encouraging

disheartening

maximizes

registering

distributing

messianic

understanding

entertaining

interviewing

denigrating

dispiriting

disparaging

legislating

businesswoman

disengaging

oceanic

intersecting

diagnoses

mechanically

paganism

pessimism

mechanism

implicating

mechanical

reconsider

issuances

disengagement

diagnostic

mechanisms

pessimistic

fingerprinting

distinguishing

diagnostics

disconnected

technically

technicolor

reconstructive

disenchantment

iconoclast

dishonesty

desensitize

dishonestly

desensitized

disconnection

misconception

deconstruction

exchangeable

misconceptions

reconstruction

reconstructions

Words that rhyme with the word rousing

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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

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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.

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  • Month
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  • Wolf
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