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

airing

beaming

bearing

bidding

billing

blaring

chilling

chipping

clipping

coming

cribbing

curing

daring

derring

digging

dilling

dipping

drilling

dripping

drumming

during

erring

filling

fitting

flitting

ginning

hilling

hissing

herring

hearing

flaring

fleming

giving

glaring

hitting

humming

living

inning

jeering

kicking

killing

knitting

licking

lemming

milling

missing

mooring

nipping

paring

picking

plumbing

pairing

quilling

shilling

ribbing

scheming

screaming

schilling

rigging

seeming

shipping

sitting

skilling

slitting

sniffing

sparing

spinning

sticking

streaming

stripping

swearing

teaming

teeming

thrilling

ticking

tipping

tricking

trilling

tripping

wearing

whipping

willing

winning

stirring

drinking

pinching

shrinking

sinking

something

stinking

thinking

bitching

dishing

fishing

pitching

ringing

singing

springing

stinging

stitching

switching

wishing

witching

wringing

dumpling

kindling

tempting

belting

bending

blending

breasting

buckling

bunting

camping

coupling

cresting

cuddling

duckling

ending

evening

fencing

fielding

heckling

helping

hunting

lamping

lending

resting

shelving

shuffling

shunting

smelting

tamping

thrusting

vesting

wielding

wrestling

funding

melting

pelting

pending

romping

seedling

spending

stamping

suckling

testing

trusting

weakling

yielding

inkling

sprinkling

barring

beading

beating

bedding

belling

fledgling

lunching

bleeding

bleeping

blessing

blooming

booming

boring

breeding

briefing

bucking

budding

burning

burping

butting

calming

ceiling

chirping

churning

cleaning

climbing

clucking

combing

cooking

creaking

creeping

culling

cunning

curling

cutting

damning

dealing

dressing

drugging

dubbing

ducking

dwelling

earning

easing

eating

eking

feeding

feeling

fehling

firing

flaming

fleeting

flooding

flooring

foaming

footing

framing

freaking

freezing

fucking

fuming

gaming

getting

girding

gloaming

greening

greeting

grieving

grooming

gunning

heading

healing

heating

heaving

homing

hugging

hurling

hurting

jarring

jerking

jetting

jutting

keeling

keeping

kenning

leading

leaking

leaning

leaping

learning

leasing

legging

looking

looming

loring

loving

meaning

meeting

mugging

netting

nursing

nutting

peaking

pegging

petting

pleasing

plugging

puffing

roaring

pleading

priming

pudding

putting

bulging

pressing

reading

rubbing

running

scarring

screening

seating

seeling

seizing

serving

setting

shedding

sheeting

shelling

shirting

shoring

shredding

skirting

sledding

sleeping

smelling

sneaking

sneezing

snoring

soaring

speaking

spelling

sperling

spurling

squeezing

stealing

sterling

strutting

stuffing

stunning

sucking

sweating

sweeping

sweeting

swelling

telling

trucking

turning

weaving

webbing

wedding

weeding

wheeling

wiring

wording

working

weeping

whirling

wrecking

yearling

yearning

yelling

hamstring

wellspring

being

birthing

bleaching

blushing

breathing

breeching

brushing

crushing

edging

etching

fetching

flushing

fraying

gushing

judging

laying

merging

nestling

nothing

paying

peeing

playing

praying

preaching

purging

pushing

rambling

saying

searching

seeing

sheathing

shoestring

stretching

swaying

teaching

teething

touching

weighing

westling

acting

blinding

boasting

arming

binding

asking

banding

basting

blasting

boarding

bolting

bonding

bouncing

bounding

boxing

carling

charming

carping

carving

chanting

casting

coasting

coaxing

costing

crackling

darling

daunting

fainting

farming

faulting

coursing

dancing

drafting

finding

frosting

folding

founding

forcing

forming

glancing

golding

golfing

grinding

grafting

harping

grounding

grappling

grasping

hoarding

holding

horning

hosting

hounding

landing

lasting

lightning

malting

marking

minding

molting

morning

morphing

moulding

mounting

mourning

ousting

painting

panting

parking

parting

planting

pointing

snarling

salting

sapling

sounding

scalping

scolding

shafting

sharking

sparling

sporting

rounding

posting

pouncing

pounding

rafting

slanting

rifling

roasting

standing

starling

straddling

toasting

tackling

tasting

taunting

vaulting

wanting

warling

warming

warning

warping

wasting

wilding

starting

storming

trifling

winding

offspring

banking

earthling

franking

nanking

planking

spanking

aching

ailing

awning

backing

bagging

baiting

baking

failing

poling

polling

pooling

popping

pouting

prowling

railing

rousing

quaking

raising

raking

rising

pruning

racing

racking

raving

riding

rocking

rolling

roofing

roving

sacking

sagging

sailing

saving

scraping

schooling

scaling

ruling

shading

shaving

shining

shocking

shooting

shrouding

siding

sighting

signing

sizing

slapping

slating

sliding

slighting

sloping

slotting

smacking

smoking

snapping

soaking

sobbing

sopping

stacking

stalling

stating

staving

stocking

stooping

stopping

stowing

straining

strapping

striking

striving

stroking

suiting

swooning

tacking

tailing

taking

talking

tanning

tiding

tooling

topping

tossing

tracing

trading

trailing

training

tubing

tuning

twining

veiling

viking

voiding

voting

wading

waiting

waking

walking

walling

waning

wapping

whacking

whaling

whiting

whooping

whopping

writing

yachting

biding

biting

blazing

blocking

boating

boiling

bolling

boning

booting

fading

boozing

falling

feigning

fighting

filing

fining

flagging

floating

flogging

foiling

fruiting

gadding

galling

gassing

glazing

grading

grating

grayling

grazing

grouting

grouping

having

hiding

holing

hopping

housing

joking

hogging

icing

jailing

jogging

knocking

lading

lagging

lapping

laughing

lighting

liking

lining

loading

loaning

logging

looping

poking

bowling

bracing

braiding

braving

brawling

breaking

broiling

broking

brooding

browning

browsing

bruting

calling

caning

casing

caulking

chafing

chasing

choking

chopping

cloaking

clocking

clogging

closing

clouding

clowning

coating

cocking

codding

coiling

colling

cooling

coping

cracking

craving

crooning

crossing

dawning

dicing

dining

diving

docking

doting

doubting

dragging

draining

driving

dropping

dueling

facing

losing

lopping

making

mapping

matting

batting

madding

mailing

mining

muting

nagging

mocking

moving

musing

napping

nodding

nosing

offing

oozing

packing

piling

padding

plodding

panning

plating

passing

paving

piping

outing

pacing

phasing

phrasing

pining

groundling

foundling

handling

sparkling

aging

banging

beijing

hatching

raging

tithing

hanging

soothing

staging

paging

catching

bathing

clanging

clothing

coaching

couching

crashing

dashing

flashing

lashing

latching

loathing

lodging

longing

matching

patching

plaything

scratching

slouching

smoothing

thrashing

unearned

washing

angling

blowing

blueing

bluing

bowing

brewing

buying

chewing

cooing

crowing

crying

doing

drawing

drying

dyeing

dying

flowing

flying

frying

going

knowing

growing

glowing

lawing

lowing

lying

mowing

owing

prying

screwing

sewing

showing

sighing

suing

throwing

trying

tying

vying

forging

branching

arching

scorching

farthing

launching

marching

unrein

unarmed

unarm

3 syllable words

colouring

concurring

detailing

emitting

entering

blundering

blustering

governing

centering

retiring

asserting

alerting

amazing

thundering

traversing

rendering

besetting

prevailing

billowing

buffeting

chattering

battering

diapering

doddering

favoring

flattering

flavoring

laboring

motoring

neighboring

neutering

offering

papering

pitying

powdering

scattering

smattering

soldering

tailoring

tapering

watering

winnowing

cowering

flowering

glowering

impending

imploring

importing

improving

layering

lowering

souring

towering

badgering

gathering

issuing

wagering

commanding

concerning

conserving

decreasing

degrading

departing

descending

dissenting

dressmaking

easterling

equating

erecting

imposing

invading

kidnapping

lamenting

mistaking

networking

observing

regarding

relapsing

underling

tamarin

adoring

agreeing

alluring

becoming

befitting

beginning

beguiling

believing

conveying

crippling

debating

delighting

designing

diverting

dividing

drizzling

factoring

faltering

glistening

laundering

lawmaking

listening

middling

ordering

piddling

plastering

pondering

presiding

quickening

relieving

repeating

reviving

riveting

scribbling

seducing

sickening

sizzling

stiffening

thickening

ticketing

visiting

wandering

converging

matchmaking

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imprinting

annoying

boomerang

echoing

ironing

mellowing

narrowing

seagoing

surveying

yellowing

bullying

canoeing

varying

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dissembling

distressing

besieging

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engraving

engrossing

exacting

expelling

increasing

conquering

expiring

inspiring

belonging

conjuring

soldiering

investing

assuring

finishing

rejoicing

sojourning

misspelling

unsparing

reflecting

diverging

maturing

according

admiring

affecting

amusing

approving

ascending

aspiring

blackmailing

bloodletting

bumbling

campaigning

commuting

complying

composing

connecting

crocheting

declining

defusing

disarming

disguising

dissolving

dwindling

emptying

endearing

erupting

exceeding

exciting

forwarding

hammerman

incoming

infighting

inviting

misgiving

misleading

mumbling

patrolling

persisting

reclining

recording

resisting

rumbling

tamarins

trembling

trumpeting

tumbling

unfailing

uprising

upsetting

reasoning

polluting

reckoning

reducing

opposing

provoking

assuming

settling

pervading

locating

meddling

preceding

ballooning

peddling

proceeding

promising

seasoning

beholding

muscling

leavening

lessening

leveling

aligning

expanding

engaging

appalling

forbidding

forgiving

freewheeling

annealing

ensuing

everything

juggling

exploring

threatening

bushwhacking

sweetening

tinkling

abiding

bustling

correcting

divining

doubling

appealing

bubbling

crusading

deadening

deafening

undoing

undying

vomiting

well-being

whitening

twinkling

distracting

approaching

arresting

blossoming

interesting

shoplifting

adjoining

cushioning

unbending

damaging

convincing

afflicting

installing

ravishing

disgusting

enduring

tormenting

vanishing

dumbfounding

respecting

shipbuilding

attracting

enlisting

churchgoing

excepting

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machining

absorbing

completing

compounding

existing

anything

frustrating

hairdressing

polishing

exulting

hardworking

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carousing

dialing

following

journeying

shadowing

toweling

abounding

accusing

bullfighting

alarming

bookkeeping

bloodsucking

bundling

dampening

dissecting

conceding

confiding

consoling

consuming

enticing

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gambling

scaffolding

outpouring

succeeding

lactating

oncoming

pronouncing

revolting

sleepwalking

unwilling

unwitting

revolving

typewriting

unfeeling

outfitting

scrambling

railroading

life-giving

good-looking

nourishing

bungling

challenging

marshaling

carjacking

warehousing

eavesdropping

scavenging

conflicting

obliging

amaranth

battening

baffling

bottling

cackling

channeling

cradling

cycling

fastening

galloping

highflying

happening

lightening

maddening

modeling

mottling

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opening

opining

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outlying

paneling

profiling

profiting

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raveling

softening

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surrounding

surviving

tabling

unflinching

abducting

astounding

broadcasting

childbearing

conforming

confounding

confusing

accenting

consulting

contacting

enclosing

forecasting

handwriting

harvesting

inherent

painstaking

perplexing

shortcoming

strengthening

unyielding

constricting

beseeching

wrongdoing

innermost

arranging

forthcoming

copying

jockeying

backbiting

carpeting

counseling

darkening

hardening

housewarming

marketing

offsetting

pardoning

shortening

downsizing

nerve-racking

fondling

foreboding

gardening

housekeeping

parceling

surprising

carrying

typesetting

landscaping

languishing

outstanding

groundbreaking

heartbreaking

unthinking

contracting

transporting

landholding

thanksgiving

blanketing

backsliding

brainwashing

runaround

4 syllable words

liberating

reentering

embarrassing

bewildering

inquiring

nonrecurring

separating

discouraging

registering

interviewing

interlocking

developing

disabling

disappearing

disparaging

inheriting

irritating

mitigating

never-ending

underlying

operating

pioneering

moderating

realizing

overlying

encouraging

energizing

disconcerting

implicating

intersecting

denigrating

captivating

disapproving

dispiriting

examining

unremitting

undertaking

underwriting

mountaineering

encircling

entertaining

enveloping

everlasting

speechifying

disengaging

legislating

vacillating

unavailing

appetizing

annotating

suffocating

awakening

fascinating

hesitating

bicycling

laminating

delegating

detonating

dominating

domineering

fingerprinting

oscillating

persevering

overflowing

overlapping

overpowering

overrating

overruling

enterprising

condescending

integrating

edifying

overhauling

gratifying

notifying

overarching

petitioning

agitating

activating

advertising

aggravating

barbecuing

circulating

coexisting

devastating

disappointing

emphasizing

disheartening

maximizing

overwhelming

palpitating

penetrating

unbecoming

waterproofing

understanding

distributing

memorandum

conditioning

engineering

fluctuating

inhibiting

partitioning

undulating

overcoming

calculating

centralizing

complicating

diagnosing

obviating

occupying

unassuming

encompassing

fireproofing

overbearing

unrelenting

agonizing

babysitting

oceangoing

notwithstanding

parachuting

memorandums

enlightening

patronizing

unbelieving

underpinning

admonishing

astonishing

merchandising

corresponding

inherently

distinguishing

executing

unwarranted

panorama

enormity

enormously

6 syllable words

Words that rhyme with the word shimmering

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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

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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