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Rhymes Here is a list of the words that rhyme with the word softening.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 softening.
2 syllable words

forging

launching

scorching

offspring

longing

softens

often

daunting

hoarding

malting

boarding

bonding

lightning

bunting

costing

coursing

drafting

faulting

forcing

forming

frosting

funding

grafting

hunting

morphing

salting

shafting

shuffling

shunting

sporting

storming

taunting

trifling

warling

warping

rafting

rifling

vaulting

wanting

warming

boning

boring

brawling

browning

bucking

budding

caulking

butting

calling

clowning

clucking

coming

culling

fining

crossing

cutting

dining

drugging

drumming

dubbing

ducking

flooding

hugging

humming

inning

jutting

logging

loring

loving

mugging

nutting

panning

pining

plumbing

flooring

fucking

galling

ginning

hogging

laughing

lining

loaning

plugging

puffing

putting

kenning

mining

roaring

rubbing

shining

shoring

signing

snoring

soaring

spinning

stalling

strutting

stuffing

sucking

talking

tanning

tossing

trucking

twining

walking

walling

winning

arching

lunching

farthing

marching

lawing

banging

blushing

drawing

brushing

catching

clanging

clothing

coaching

couching

crashing

crushing

dashing

flashing

flushing

gushing

hanging

hatching

judging

lashing

latching

loathing

lodging

matching

nothing

patching

ringing

scratching

singing

slouching

springing

stinging

thrashing

tithing

touching

washing

wringing

rambling

sparkling

acting

arming

asking

banding

bending

binding

blasting

blending

blinding

boasting

bolting

bouncing

bounding

boxing

buckling

camping

carling

carping

carving

casting

chanting

charming

coasting

coaxing

coupling

crackling

cuddling

dancing

darling

duckling

ending

evening

farming

fencing

finding

folding

founding

glancing

glinting

golding

golfing

grappling

grasping

grinding

grounding

harping

holding

hosting

hounding

jumping

lamping

landing

lasting

lending

lifting

lumping

marking

mincing

minding

molting

moulding

mounting

ousting

panting

parking

parting

pending

planting

pointing

posting

pouncing

pounding

printing

pumping

roasting

romping

rounding

sapling

scalping

scolding

sharking

shifting

slanting

snarling

soften

sounding

sparling

spending

squinting

stamping

standing

starling

starting

straddling

suckling

tackling

tamping

thrusting

thumping

toasting

trusting

wilding

wincing

winding

airing

backing

bagging

barring

batting

bearing

bedding

belling

bidding

biding

billing

biting

blaring

blessing

blocking

boating

boiling

bolling

bowling

briefing

broiling

burning

calming

brimming

broking

browsing

caning

chafing

chilling

chipping

choking

chopping

churning

cleaning

clearing

climbing

clipping

cloaking

clocking

clogging

closing

clouding

coating

cocking

codding

coiling

colling

combing

cooking

coping

cracking

cribbing

crooning

curing

damning

daring

derring

dicing

digging

dilling

dipping

diving

docking

doting

doubting

dragging

draining

dressing

drilling

dripping

driving

dropping

during

dwelling

earning

earring

erring

falling

fehling

feigning

fighting

filing

filling

firing

fitting

flagging

flaring

fleming

flitting

floating

flogging

foaming

foiling

footing

gadding

gassing

gearing

getting

giving

glaring

gloaming

greening

grouting

having

heading

herring

hiding

hilling

hissing

hitting

holing

homing

hopping

housing

icing

jarring

jetting

jogging

joking

kicking

killing

knitting

knocking

lagging

lapping

leaning

learning

legging

lemming

licking

lighting

liking

living

loading

looking

lopping

madding

mapping

matting

meaning

milling

missing

mocking

mooring

nagging

napping

netting

nipping

nodding

nosing

outing

packing

padding

pairing

paring

passing

pegging

petting

picking

piling

piping

plodding

poking

poling

polling

popping

pouting

pressing

priming

prowling

pruning

pudding

quilling

racking

ribbing

riding

rigging

rising

sinking

rocking

rolling

roofing

nanking

pinching

planking

shrinking

something

spanking

stinking

thinking

rousing

roving

shedding

stacking

steering

sticking

stocking

stopping

stowing

straining

strapping

striking

stripping

striving

stroking

swearing

sweating

swelling

swimming

swooning

telling

thrilling

topping

tripping

tacking

ticking

tiding

tipping

training

tricking

trilling

trimming

tuning

turning

sacking

sagging

scarring

schilling

screening

setting

shearing

shelling

shilling

shipping

shocking

shredding

shrouding

siding

sighting

sitting

sizing

skilling

skimming

slapping

sledding

sliding

slighting

slitting

sloping

slotting

smacking

smelling

smoking

snapping

sniffing

soaking

sobbing

sopping

sparing

spelling

banking

branching

bulging

wapping

webbing

wedding

whipping

wiring

whopping

willing

veering

voting

whiting

waning

wearing

whacking

hamstring

voiding

wrecking

viking

yearning

yelling

yachting

drinking

earthling

franking

writing

shoestring

handling

groundling

dumpling

kindling

foundling

bathing

beijing

birthing

bitching

aging

bleaching

breathing

breeching

dishing

edging

etching

fetching

fishing

merging

paging

pitching

plaything

preaching

purging

pushing

smoothing

staging

raging

searching

sheathing

soothing

stitching

teaching

wishing

witching

stretching

switching

teething

drying

sewing

angling

crying

inkling

owing

prying

crowing

blowing

dyeing

dying

flowing

flying

frying

glowing

going

knowing

lowing

lying

throwing

tying

vying

trying

growing

sprinkling

bowing

buying

mowing

showing

sighing

fielding

fixing

kipling

pelting

piercing

pimping

quilting

seedling

sibling

tilting

twisting

building

cresting

gilding

helping

scrimping

shelving

heckling

vesting

whistling

wielding

weakling

wrestling

wasting

whitling

breasting

melting

smelting

stripling

yielding

belting

listing

painting

tasting

testing

fainting

basting

resting

caftans

captains

chieftains

fledgling

aching

ailing

baiting

blazing

beading

beaming

beating

baking

booming

bleeding

booting

boozing

blooming

braiding

braving

breaking

bleeping

bracing

breeding

brooding

bruting

burping

casing

ceiling

chasing

chirping

cooling

craving

creaking

creeping

curling

dealing

dueling

easing

eating

eking

facing

fading

failing

feeding

feeling

flaming

fleeting

framing

freaking

freezing

fruiting

fuming

gaming

girding

glazing

grading

grating

grayling

grazing

greeting

grieving

grooming

grouping

healing

hearing

heating

heaving

hurling

hurting

jailing

jeering

jerking

keeling

keeping

lading

leading

leaking

leaping

leasing

looming

looping

losing

mailing

making

meeting

moving

nursing

musing

muting

oozing

pacing

paving

peaking

phasing

phrasing

plating

pleading

pleasing

pooling

quaking

racing

railing

raising

raking

raving

reading

ruling

sailing

saving

scaling

scheming

schooling

scraping

screaming

seating

seeling

seeming

seizing

serving

shading

shaving

sheeting

shirting

shooting

skirting

slating

sleeping

sneaking

sneezing

speaking

sperling

spurling

squeezing

stating

staving

stealing

sterling

stooping

streaming

suiting

sweeping

sweeting

tailing

taking

teaming

teeming

tooling

tracing

trading

trailing

tubing

veiling

wading

waiting

waking

weaving

weeding

weeping

whaling

wheeling

whirling

whooping

wording

working

yearling

options

captions

nestling

tempting

westling

caftan

captain

chieftain

being

blueing

bluing

chewing

cooing

fraying

paying

brewing

playing

doing

laying

peeing

praying

saying

screwing

seeing

stirring

suing

swaying

weighing

caption

option

wellspring

lifetimes

fifteenth

lifetime

obtain

uptown

left-hand

fifteens

sputum

fifteen

neptune

diphthong

obtains

3 syllable words

dialing

offering

challenging

scavenging

toweling

cushioning

confounding

dumbfounding

shortcoming

tormenting

affecting

bloodsucking

bumbling

bundling

carpeting

confiding

counseling

fondling

gambling

life-giving

marketing

mumbling

outfitting

parceling

rumbling

scrambling

trumpeting

tumbling

forthcoming

softener

becoming

befitting

beginning

cradling

crippling

designing

drizzling

faltering

highflying

laundering

lawmaking

leveling

meddling

middling

ordering

peddling

piddling

riveting

scribbling

settling

sizzling

tabling

ticketing

bungling

blanketing

marshaling

annoying

buffeting

canoeing

ironing

suffering

watering

conjuring

ravishing

wrongdoing

abducting

polishing

consulting

soldiering

afflicting

conforming

harvesting

sojourning

accenting

broadcasting

forecasting

strengthening

damaging

admiring

bullfighting

dissenting

dwindling

foreboding

crocheting

declining

badgering

campaigning

erupting

forwarding

typesetting

reclining

typewriting

housewarming

gathering

comforting

descending

incoming

trembling

backbiting

dissecting

downsizing

infighting

annealing

ballooning

beguiling

blundering

carjacking

concurring

conveying

delighting

discerning

diverting

dividing

factoring

forbidding

forgiving

governing

locating

ongoing

outlying

outstanding

plastering

pondering

presiding

refreshing

retiring

reviving

surpassing

surrounding

surviving

thundering

tinkling

twinkling

undoing

undying

wandering

reflecting

jockeying

motoring

powdering

scattering

smattering

soldering

impending

machining

stuttering

insulting

winnowing

belonging

conquering

arriving

backsliding

childbearing

exulting

disgusting

diverging

handwriting

caressing

battering

carousing

contacting

carrying

adjoining

chattering

coloring

copying

covering

diapering

doddering

flattering

abounding

according

blackmailing

commanding

consuming

wagering

defusing

dissolving

exciting

surprising

nourishing

optional

nerve-racking

pronouncing

mothering

housekeeping

ascending

conceding

concerning

connecting

conserving

consoling

departing

disarming

disguising

kidnapping

lactating

lamenting

left-winger

persisting

recording

regarding

relapsing

revolving

underling

unfailing

unfeeling

unwilling

unwitting

expanding

languishing

cowering

flowering

glowering

lowering

imprinting

souring

towering

contracting

interesting

alluring

optimist

alerting

amazing

asserting

abiding

arresting

converging

adoring

agreeing

appalling

appealing

assuming

blustering

centering

crusading

ensuing

polluting

entering

correcting

lumbering

pilfering

colouring

debating

freewheeling

opposing

pervading

preceding

matchmaking

warehousing

reducing

rendering

provoking

proceeding

traversing

brainwashing

bushwhacking

landholding

thanksgiving

astounding

complaining

compounding

convincing

assuring

vanishing

absorbing

avoidance

beseeching

churchgoing

finishing

maturing

confusing

optimal

tinkering

exacting

exhausting

left-wingers

unyielding

fingering

optimum

perplexing

arranging

expiring

shoplifting

lingering

unsparing

hardworking

importing

respecting

anything

unbending

bettering

bickering

billowing

bullying

dairying

echoing

favoring

flavoring

following

glimmering

journeying

laboring

lettering

mellowing

murmuring

narrowing

neighboring

neutering

optimists

papering

peppering

pickering

pitying

shadowing

shimmering

surveying

tailoring

tapering

varying

yellowing

accusing

endearing

outpouring

approving

enticing

alarming

aspiring

bloodletting

inserting

observing

sleepwalking

succeeding

uprising

upsetting

easterling

invading

amusing

inviting

patrolling

commuting

complying

composing

revolting

conflicting

distracting

withering

eavesdropping

heartbreaking

left-handed

feathering

transporting

butchering

issuing

weathering

unthinking

measuring

approaching

dividends

engaging

obliging

unflinching

layering

believing

blistering

besetting

deserving

detailing

emitting

prevailing

repeating

seducing

well-being

outgoing

relieving

reversing

tempering

visiting

whispering

inspiring

investing

attracting

installing

enclosing

enduring

engraving

engrossing

enlisting

frustrating

imploring

completing

constricting

increasing

abdomen

besieging

evidence

evident

nevadans

optimize

rejoicing

abatements

enchanting

bookkeeping

decreasing

degrading

despairing

dressmaking

emptying

equating

erecting

exceeding

exploring

good-looking

groundbreaking

imposing

landscaping

misgiving

misleading

mistaking

networking

ovations

railroading

resisting

seagoing

nevadan

beholding

everything

abatement

dissembling

distressing

excepting

existing

expelling

hairdressing

improving

misspelling

painstaking

shipbuilding

devotion

ovation

debutantes

debutante

dividend

september

4 syllable words

agonizing

dominating

domineering

awakening

laminating

fascinating

suffocating

pioneering

petitioning

oceangoing

corresponding

enlightening

bicycling

diagnosing

annotating

detonating

occupying

oscillating

overcoming

unassuming

unavailing

vacillating

conditioning

partitioning

agitating

edifying

gratifying

notifying

disheartening

unbecoming

unbelieving

underpinning

speechifying

patronizing

palpitating

maximizing

mountaineering

examining

disappointing

emphasizing

activating

aggravating

admonishing

astonishing

engineering

fluctuating

merchandising

undulating

overbearing

overflowing

delegating

appetizing

disabling

mitigating

hesitating

developing

disappearing

irritating

never-ending

nonrecurring

overlapping

persevering

overpowering

calculating

complicating

condescending

disconcerting

discouraging

parachuting

overarching

overlying

operating

reentering

realizing

moderating

advertising

barbecuing

captivating

circulating

devastating

disapproving

embarrassing

enveloping

encircling

overwhelming

penetrating

babysitting

devotional

disengaging

obviating

overrating

overruling

underlying

inhibiting

inheriting

centralizing

executing

encompassing

integrating

abdominal

evidences

optimism

entertaining

unremitting

undertaking

notwithstanding

coexisting

everlasting

underwriting

waterproofing

optimistic

epidemic

fireproofing

inquiring

unrelenting

encouraging

energizing

epidemics

evidently

obtainable

optometrist

overhauling

interlocking

separating

denigrating

interviewing

liberating

understanding

optometrists

obedience

obedient

intersecting

enterprising

bewildering

optometry

registering

epitome

dispiriting

fingerprinting

leviathan

legislating

disparaging

epitomize

implicating

deviations

distributing

distinguishing

lobotomy

deviation

aviation

neptunium

7 syllable words
8 syllable words

Words that rhyme with the word softening

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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