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

blocking

clocking

cocking

docking

knocking

mocking

rocking

shocking

stocking

awning

backing

barring

bucking

parking

calming

boxing

dockings

marking

caulking

sharking

chopping

clogging

clucking

codding

colling

cracking

dropping

ducking

falling

flogging

fucking

hopping

jarring

jogging

liking

lopping

nodding

packing

plodding

popping

racking

sacking

scarring

slotting

smacking

sobbing

sopping

stacking

stopping

striking

sucking

tacking

talking

topping

trucking

viking

walking

wapping

whacking

whopping

yachting

lodging

washing

sparkling

acting

arming

asking

bonding

buckling

carling

carping

carving

charming

crackling

darling

duckling

farming

golfing

harping

parting

romping

snarling

sparling

starling

starting

suckling

tackling

vikings

wanting

aching

bagging

baking

batting

biding

biting

boring

brawling

breaking

broking

browning

browsing

budding

butting

calling

choking

climbing

cloaking

clouding

clowning

coming

cooking

creaking

crossing

culling

cunning

cutting

damning

dawning

dicing

dining

diving

doubting

dragging

driving

drugging

drumming

dubbing

eking

fighting

filing

fining

firing

flagging

flooding

flooring

freaking

gadding

galling

gassing

grouting

gunning

having

hiding

hogging

housing

hugging

humming

icing

jerking

joking

jutting

kicking

lagging

lapping

laughing

leaking

licking

lighting

lining

logging

looking

loring

loving

madding

making

mapping

matting

mining

mugging

nagging

napping

nutting

offing

outing

padding

panning

passing

peaking

picking

piling

pining

piping

plugging

plumbing

poking

pouting

priming

prowling

puffing

putting

quaking

raking

riding

rising

roaring

rousing

rubbing

running

sagging

shining

shoring

shrouding

siding

sighting

signing

sizing

slapping

sliding

slighting

smoking

snapping

sneaking

snoring

soaking

soaring

speaking

stalling

sticking

strapping

striving

stroking

strutting

stuffing

stunning

taking

tanning

ticking

tiding

tossing

tricking

twining

waking

walling

whiting

wiring

working

wrecking

writing

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

arching

banking

farthing

franking

marching

nanking

planking

spanking

buying

crying

drawing

drying

dyeing

dying

flying

frying

lawing

lying

mowing

prying

sighing

trying

tying

vying

akins

banging

blushing

brushing

catching

clanging

couching

crashing

crushing

dashing

flashing

flushing

gushing

hanging

hatching

judging

lakins

lashing

latching

longing

matching

nothing

patching

scratching

slouching

thrashing

tithing

touching

binding

blasting

blinding

boarding

bouncing

bounding

bunting

camping

cuddling

dancing

daunting

drafting

faulting

finding

fixing

forcing

forming

founding

frosting

funding

glancing

grafting

grappling

grasping

grinding

grounding

heckling

hoarding

horning

hounding

housings

hunting

jumping

lamping

landing

lasting

lightning

morning

mounting

mourning

muggings

lumping

makings

malting

minding

morphing

ousting

panting

pickings

planting

pouncing

shafting

banding

casting

coursing

pounding

chanting

coaxing

pumping

costing

coupling

rafting

straddling

rifling

rounding

salting

sapling

scalping

shuffling

shunting

slanting

sounding

sporting

stamping

standing

storming

takings

tamping

taunting

thrusting

trusting

thumping

trifling

vaulting

warling

warming

warning

warping

weakling

wilding

winding

ailing

airing

baiting

beading

beaming

bearing

beating

bedding

belling

bidding

billing

blaring

blazing

bleeding

bleeping

blessing

blooming

boating

boiling

bolling

boning

booming

booting

boozing

bowling

bracing

braiding

braving

breeding

briefing

brimming

broiling

brooding

bruting

burning

burping

caning

casing

ceiling

chafing

chasing

chilling

chipping

chirping

churning

cleaning

clearing

clipping

closing

coating

coiling

combing

cooling

coping

craving

creeping

cribbing

crooning

curing

curling

daring

dealing

derring

digging

dilling

dipping

doting

draining

dressing

drilling

dripping

dueling

during

dwelling

earning

earring

easing

eating

erring

facing

fading

failing

feeding

feeling

fehling

feigning

filling

fitting

flaming

flaring

fleeting

fleming

flitting

floating

foaming

foiling

footing

framing

freezing

fruiting

fuming

gaming

gearing

getting

ginning

girding

giving

glaring

glazing

gloaming

grading

grating

grayling

grazing

greening

greeting

grieving

grooming

grouping

heading

healing

hearing

heating

heaving

herring

hilling

hissing

hitting

holing

homing

hurling

hurting

inning

jailing

jeering

jetting

keeling

keeping

kenning

killing

knitting

lading

leading

leaning

leaping

learning

leasing

legging

lemming

living

loading

loaning

looming

looping

losing

mailing

meaning

meeting

milling

missing

mooring

moving

musing

muting

netting

nipping

nosing

nursing

oozing

pacing

pairing

paring

paving

pegging

petting

phasing

phrasing

plating

pleading

pleasing

poling

polling

pooling

pressing

pruning

pudding

quilling

racing

railing

raising

raving

reading

ribbing

rigging

rolling

roofing

roving

ruling

sailing

saving

scaling

scheming

schilling

schooling

scraping

screaming

screening

seating

seeling

seeming

seizing

serving

setting

shading

shaving

shearing

shedding

sheeting

shelling

shilling

shipping

shirting

shooting

shredding

sitting

skilling

skimming

skirting

slating

sledding

sleeping

slitting

sloping

smelling

sneezing

sniffing

sparing

spelling

sperling

spinning

spurling

squeezing

stating

staving

stealing

steering

sterling

stooping

stowing

straining

streaming

stripping

suiting

swearing

sweating

sweeping

sweeting

swelling

swimming

swooning

tailing

teaming

teeming

telling

thrilling

tipping

tooling

tracing

trading

trailing

training

trilling

trimming

tripping

tubing

tuning

turning

veering

veiling

voiding

voting

wading

waiting

waning

wearing

weaving

webbing

wedding

weeding

weeping

whaling

wheeling

whipping

whirling

whooping

willing

winning

wording

yearling

yearning

yelling

branching

bulging

succinct

launching

lunching

drinking

forging

lashings

scorching

shrinking

sinking

something

stinking

thinking

aging

bathing

beijing

being

birthing

bitching

bleaching

blowing

blueing

bluing

bowing

breathing

breeching

brewing

chewing

clothing

coaching

cooing

crowing

dishing

doing

dumpling

edging

etching

fetching

fishing

fixings

flowing

foundling

fraying

glowing

going

groundling

growing

handling

knowing

laying

lichens

likens

likins

loathing

lowing

lykens

merging

owing

paging

paying

peeing

pitching

playing

plaything

praying

preaching

purging

pushing

raging

rambling

ringing

saying

screwing

searching

seeing

sewing

sheathing

showing

singing

smoothing

soothing

springing

staging

stinging

stirring

stitching

stretching

suing

swaying

switching

teaching

teething

throwing

weighing

wishing

witching

wringing

angling

buckskins

inkling

sprinkling

basting

belting

bending

blending

boasting

bolting

breasting

building

casings

coasting

cresting

ending

evening

facings

fainting

fencing

fielding

folding

gilding

glinting

golding

helping

holding

hosting

kipling

leggings

lending

lifting

listing

melting

mincing

molting

moulding

musings

painting

pelting

pending

piercing

pimping

pointing

posting

printing

quilting

resting

riggings

roasting

scolding

scrimping

seedling

shelving

shifting

sibling

smelting

spending

squinting

stripling

tasting

testing

tilting

toasting

twisting

vesting

wasting

whistling

whitling

wielding

wincing

wrestling

yielding

hamstring

offspring

bushings

earthling

fledgling

gascons

pinching

teachings

saxons

vaccines

kindling

nestling

shoestring

tempting

westling

beacons

beckons

begins

biggins

chickens

cocoons

deacons

picnic

possums

quickens

raccoons

reckons

technic

thickens

tokens

tycoons

weakens

pigskins

machines

wellspring

against

maxims

askance

picnics

sequence

sequins

technics

cousins

becomes

dozens

license

magness

technique

wagons

peacenik

pecans

toughens

regimes

lozenge

fashions

passions

russians

exchange

techniques

licensed

vacuums

vegans

essence

nuisance

cuisines

basins

bygones

caissons

cosens

eggnog

hogans

icons

lagoons

lessens

lessons

loosens

masons

regains

resins

mesons

poisons

pygmies

racemes

raisins

reasons

rhizomes

seasons

asians

cajuns

cushions

legions

lesions

missions

oceans

pigeons

regions

rejoins

sessions

visions

exhumes

eggnogs

assumes

cognac

dismays

isms

resumes

schisms

legumes

mishmash

3 syllable words

copying

dialing

doddering

following

soldering

toweling

conquering

cowering

flowering

glowering

souring

towering

bloodsucking

darkening

marketing

cycling

abiding

adoring

aligning

appalling

baffling

battening

blossoming

bottling

bubbling

bustling

cackling

channeling

concurring

divining

doubling

factoring

maddening

lightening

lawmaking

raveling

softening

juggling

fastening

galloping

happening

vomiting

wandering

muscling

promising

pondering

provoking

modeling

ongoing

paneling

profiting

quarreling

mottling

carjacking

annoying

buffeting

canoeing

carousing

carrying

chattering

arriving

conjuring

battering

bickering

coloring

covering

polishing

diapering

echoing

flattering

ironing

offering

pickering

powdering

scattering

shadowing

smattering

stuttering

suffering

watering

abducting

attracting

contacting

hardworking

abounding

according

accusing

admiring

affecting

alarming

aspiring

backbiting

badgering

blackmailing

bumbling

bundling

carpeting

commanding

confiding

connecting

counseling

dampening

departing

disarming

dissecting

downsizing

fondling

gambling

gardening

gathering

hardening

housekeeping

housewarming

laconic

lactating

layering

lowering

mothering

mumbling

nerve-racking

oncoming

outpouring

parceling

pardoning

pronouncing

recording

regarding

revolving

rumbling

scaffolding

scrambling

shortening

sleepwalking

succeeding

trumpeting

tumbling

typewriting

uprising

agreeing

alerting

alluring

amazing

annealing

beguiling

cradling

delighting

designing

brainwashing

bungling

crippling

debating

packinghouse

appealing

asserting

assuming

ballooning

becoming

blundering

blustering

colouring

conveying

correcting

deadening

deafening

diverting

dividing

drizzling

faltering

glistening

governing

highflying

jokingly

laughingly

laundering

leavening

lessening

leveling

listening

locating

lumbering

meddling

middling

opening

opining

opposing

ordering

outgoing

outlying

peddling

piddling

plastering

polluting

presiding

proceeding

profiling

quickening

reasoning

reckoning

reducing

retiring

reviving

riveting

scribbling

seasoning

sickening

stiffening

bushwhacking

settling

sizzling

surpassing

thickening

ticketing

traversing

undoing

undying

marshaling

matchmaking

contracting

threatening

thundering

blanketing

heartbreaking

challenging

obliging

surrounding

surviving

sweetening

whitening

tabling

scavenging

absorbing

astounding

backsliding

compounding

accenting

afflicting

broadcasting

conforming

confounding

dumbfounding

handwriting

shortcoming

consulting

exacting

forecasting

harvesting

shoplifting

adjoining

assuring

belonging

cushioning

damaging

diverging

machining

maturing

pachinko

ravishing

tinkering

vanishing

wrongdoing

billowing

flavoring

glimmering

journeying

pitying

shimmering

surveying

peppering

tailoring

mellowing

motoring

tapering

forthcoming

bettering

bullying

caressing

dairying

favoring

laboring

lettering

murmuring

narrowing

neighboring

neutering

seagoing

papering

varying

winnowing

yellowing

amusing

approving

ascending

bloodletting

bookkeeping

bullfighting

campaigning

comforting

commuting

complying

composing

conceding

concerning

conserving

consoling

consuming

declining

decreasing

disguising

dissolving

dressmaking

dwindling

enticing

equating

erecting

erupting

exceeding

exciting

foreboding

forwarding

good-looking

incoming

infighting

inviting

kidnapping

lamenting

life-giving

mistaking

networking

observing

offsetting

outfitting

patrolling

reclining

relapsing

surprising

trembling

typesetting

underling

unfailing

unfeeling

unwilling

unwitting

upsetting

butchering

crocheting

feathering

issuing

mackenzie

masonic

measuring

landscaping

conflicting

mechanic

nourishing

distracting

groundbreaking

eavesdropping

outstanding

wagering

withering

transporting

unthinking

weathering

approaching

converging

tinkling

twinkling

warehousing

besetting

centering

deserving

believing

blistering

crusading

thanksgiving

arresting

befitting

beginning

detailing

discerning

emitting

ensuing

forgiving

pervading

pilfering

preceding

prevailing

reversing

seducing

well-being

whispering

forbidding

entering

freewheeling

relieving

rendering

repeating

tempering

visiting

childbearing

complaining

completing

confusing

convincing

disgusting

enclosing

excepting

exhausting

expelling

expiring

exulting

frustrating

imploring

importing

increasing

inspiring

installing

insulting

laughingstock

painstaking

perplexing

reflecting

respecting

strengthening

tormenting

unbending

unsparing

unyielding

constricting

beseeching

enchanting

anything

arranging

finishing

sojourning

axioms

fingering

mechanics

awakens

soldiering

agonist

besieging

churchgoing

licenses

likenesses

lingering

rejoicing

defusing

degrading

despairing

dissenting

emptying

endearing

imposing

inserting

misleading

revolting

resisting

persisting

easterling

invading

railroading

technician

descending

disengage

expanding

misgiving

exploring

interesting

languishing

agnostic

agonists

beholding

casinos

cognizance

cognizant

engaging

everything

landholding

mechanize

refreshing

unflinching

vacancy

distressing

hairdressing

disengaged

dissembling

enduring

engraving

impending

engrossing

existing

improving

reconquer

enlisting

investing

misspelling

technicians

magnesia

shipbuilding

agnostics

hygienist

iguanas

reconcile

technical

vacancies

dishonest

maximize

bassoonist

nuisances

imprinting

ascension

machinist

disconcert

disconnect

disincline

hygienists

pessimists

reconciles

sequences

misconceive

technicals

licensee

licenser

museums

agincourt

diagnose

agonize

machinists

agonies

disconnects

eugenic

exchanger

licensure

misconstrue

passenger

weaknesses

eskimos

dismissive

dismissal

dismisses

agonized

licensees

deconstruct

misconstrues

reconstruct

asuncion

lozenges

passengers

eugenics

exchangers

exchanges

businesslike

equinox

taskmaster

dismissals

technocrat

bookmaker

decency

liaisons

technocrats

agency

cogency

fijians

issuance

messenger

regency

begonias

bookmakers

businesses

magnesite

pacemakers

peacemakers

agencies

dissension

messengers

businessman

pacemaker

peacemaker

pessimist

4 syllable words

nonrecurring

occupying

suffocating

pioneering

moderating

gratifying

operating

realizing

barbecuing

interlocking

awakening

bicycling

laminating

obviating

unassuming

agonizing

annotating

appetizing

domineering

diagnosing

dominating

fascinating

oscillating

unavailing

vacillating

agitating

overarching

complicating

petitioning

edifying

notifying

advertising

aggravating

emphasizing

activating

enlightening

unbecoming

unbelieving

undertaking

underwriting

maximizing

palpitating

patronizing

speechifying

admonishing

astonishing

fluctuating

conditioning

merchandising

partitioning

undulating

delegating

disabling

inquiring

developing

disappearing

fireproofing

hesitating

detonating

irritating

overlapping

overpowering

mitigating

overcoming

persevering

underlying

centralizing

calculating

condescending

corresponding

disheartening

discouraging

encouraging

energizing

oceangoing

overhauling

parachuting

captivating

circulating

devastating

disappointing

disapproving

embarrassing

encircling

enveloping

everlasting

examining

liberating

mountaineering

overlying

penetrating

reentering

separating

underpinning

understanding

unremitting

waterproofing

engineering

agonizes

mechanical

mechanically

inheriting

inhibiting

unrelenting

encompassing

enterprising

intersecting

integrating

disconcerting

executing

implicating

notwithstanding

babysitting

bewildering

never-ending

overbearing

overflowing

overrating

overruling

registering

diagnostic

maximizes

messianic

denigrating

dispiriting

coexisting

entertaining

interviewing

overwhelming

oceanic

legislating

diagnostics

disengaging

disparaging

diagnoses

magnesium

pessimism

reconsider

mechanism

paganism

technically

technicolor

issuances

disengagement

distributing

mechanisms

pessimistic

fingerprinting

businesswoman

iconoclast

disconnected

distinguishing

disconnection

dishonesty

misconception

reconstructive

exchangeable

deconstruction

disenchantment

misconceptions

reconstruction

reconstructions

dishonestly

desensitize

desensitized

Words that rhyme with the word shocking

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
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