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

lodging

washing

dumpling

foundling

groundling

handling

rambling

banding

camping

finding

bunting

grafting

blinding

drafting

faulting

acting

asking

binding

blasting

bouncing

bounding

casting

chanting

costing

dancing

daunting

founding

frosting

funding

glancing

grasping

grinding

grounding

heckling

hounding

jumping

kipling

hunting

landing

lamping

lasting

lightning

lumping

malting

minding

mounting

ousting

panting

piercing

planting

pouncing

pounding

pumping

rafting

rounding

salting

scalping

seedling

shafting

shunting

sibling

slanting

sounding

stamping

standing

stripling

tamping

taunting

thrusting

thumping

trusting

vaulting

weakling

whistling

whitling

wilding

wrestling

winding

angling

lunching

ailing

airing

backing

bagging

batting

bearing

belling

biding

billing

biting

blaring

boiling

bolling

bowling

broiling

browning

browsing

bucking

budding

burning

burping

butting

caulking

ceiling

chilling

chirping

churning

clearing

climbing

clouding

clowning

clucking

coiling

coming

cracking

crossing

cunning

curing

dawning

dealing

dicing

dilling

dining

dragging

drilling

driving

banking

cooling

cutting

derring

diving

doubting

drumming

nanking

dueling

earthling

damning

daring

drugging

ducking

dubbing

during

earning

earring

flooding

foiling

fucking

gadding

gassing

gearing

girding

glaring

grouting

gunning

having

healing

hearing

herring

hiding

hilling

hogging

holing

housing

hugging

humming

hurting

icing

jailing

jeering

jerking

lining

napping

outing

padding

nursing

nutting

offing

packing

pairing

panning

paring

passing

pining

piping

plugging

plumbing

poling

polling

pouting

priming

puffing

putting

quilling

racking

railing

slighting

smacking

smelling

snapping

sparing

spelling

stacking

stealing

steering

fledgling

dwelling

failing

feeling

fehling

fighting

filling

grayling

killing

lagging

lapping

laughing

learning

lighting

liking

logging

loving

madding

mailing

mapping

matting

scaling

schilling

schooling

seeling

serving

shearing

shelling

shilling

shining

shirting

franking

erring

fining

flagging

flaring

jutting

keeling

milling

mining

mooring

mugging

nagging

pooling

riding

launching

rising

rolling

rousing

rubbing

ruling

running

sacking

sagging

sailing

shrouding

siding

sighting

signing

sizing

skilling

skirting

slapping

sliding

strapping

striking

striving

strutting

stunning

swearing

sucking

bulging

stuffing

swelling

tacking

tailing

talking

thrilling

tooling

tiding

tanning

telling

tossing

something

spanking

veering

veiling

trailing

trilling

trucking

branching

turning

twining

viking

walking

planking

wearing

whacking

whaling

wheeling

whiting

willing

wording

working

writing

yearning

yelling

buying

crying

drawing

drying

dyeing

dying

flying

frying

lawing

lying

mowing

prying

sighing

stirring

trying

vying

tying

banging

blushing

brushing

clanging

flashing

flushing

hatching

judging

starlight

starlike

thrashing

catching

patching

slouching

kindling

birthing

couching

crashing

crushing

gushing

nestling

westling

dashing

hanging

lashing

latching

longing

matching

merging

nothing

scratching

searching

tithing

purging

touching

basting

belting

bending

blending

boasting

bolting

breasting

building

coasting

coaxing

cresting

ending

evening

fainting

fencing

fielding

fixing

folding

gilding

glinting

golding

helping

holding

hosting

inkling

lending

lifting

listing

melting

mincing

molting

moulding

painting

pelting

pending

pimping

pointing

posting

printing

quilting

resting

roasting

scolding

scrimping

shelving

shifting

smelting

spending

sprinkling

squinting

tasting

testing

tilting

toasting

twisting

vesting

wasting

wielding

wincing

yielding

offspring

hamstring

drinking

pinching

shrinking

sinking

stinking

thinking

aching

baiting

baking

beading

beaming

beating

bedding

bidding

blazing

bleeding

bleeping

blessing

blooming

boating

boning

booming

booting

boozing

bracing

braiding

braving

breaking

breeding

briefing

brimming

broking

brooding

bruting

caning

casing

chafing

chasing

chipping

choking

cleaning

clipping

cloaking

closing

coating

combing

cooking

coping

craving

creaking

creeping

cribbing

crooning

digging

dipping

doting

draining

dressing

dripping

easing

eating

eking

facing

fading

feeding

feigning

fitting

flaming

fleeting

fleming

flitting

floating

foaming

footing

framing

freaking

freezing

fruiting

fuming

gaming

getting

ginning

giving

glazing

gloaming

grading

grating

grazing

greening

greeting

grieving

grooming

grouping

heading

heating

heaving

hissing

hitting

homing

inning

jetting

joking

keeping

kenning

kicking

knitting

lading

leading

leaking

leaning

leaping

leasing

legging

lemming

licking

living

loading

loaning

looking

looming

looping

losing

making

meaning

meeting

missing

moving

musing

muting

netting

nipping

nosing

oozing

pacing

paving

peaking

pegging

petting

phasing

phrasing

picking

plating

pleading

pleasing

poking

pressing

pruning

pudding

quaking

racing

raising

raking

raving

reading

ribbing

rigging

roofing

roving

saving

scheming

scraping

screaming

screening

seating

seeming

seizing

setting

shading

shaving

shedding

sheeting

shipping

shooting

shredding

sitting

skimming

slating

sledding

sleeping

slitting

sloping

smoking

sneaking

sneezing

sniffing

soaking

speaking

spinning

squeezing

stating

staving

sticking

stooping

stowing

straining

streaming

stripping

stroking

suiting

sweating

sweeping

sweeting

swimming

swooning

taking

teaming

teeming

ticking

tipping

tracing

trading

training

tricking

trimming

tripping

tubing

tuning

voiding

voting

wading

waiting

waking

waning

weaving

webbing

wedding

weeding

weeping

whipping

whooping

winning

wrecking

shoestring

tempting

peeing

bathing

being

beijing

doing

breathing

praying

breeching

paying

etching

brewing

laying

flowing

loathing

sheathing

blowing

blueing

bluing

ringing

singing

stretching

bowing

chewing

cooing

crowing

fraying

glowing

going

growing

knowing

lowing

owing

playing

saying

screwing

seeing

sewing

edging

suing

bleaching

clothing

dishing

fishing

paging

preaching

raging

aging

bitching

coaching

plaything

throwing

pitching

pushing

fetching

smoothing

swaying

stinging

witching

showing

teaching

wringing

wishing

teething

weighing

soothing

springing

staging

stitching

switching

wellspring

mitral

nitriles

patrols

sterile

patrol

neutral

neutrals

petrels

strollers

petrol

stroller

3 syllable words

cowering

flowering

glowering

souring

towering

departing

disarming

fondling

hardening

patrolling

recording

carpeting

darkening

pardoning

gardening

marketing

regarding

alarming

underling

according

adoring

agreeing

alerting

annealing

appalling

appealing

asserting

baffling

blossoming

bubbling

bustling

cackling

channeling

cycling

diverting

doubling

governing

highflying

juggling

muscling

ongoing

ordering

outlying

paneling

pondering

profiting

promising

raveling

traversing

vomiting

wandering

carjacking

watering

narrowing

offering

flattering

annoying

coloring

covering

dairying

shadowing

scattering

buffeting

chattering

smattering

suffering

canoeing

stuttering

diapering

battering

powdering

varying

conjuring

conquering

diverging

polishing

harvesting

absorbing

conforming

hardworking

shoplifting

gathering

badgering

layering

lowering

mothering

abounding

admiring

approving

aspiring

blackmailing

bloodletting

bumbling

bundling

chitterlings

comforting

commanding

complying

concerning

conserving

consoling

forwarding

counseling

easterling

foreboding

gambling

mumbling

observing

outpouring

pronouncing

revolving

rumbling

scaffolding

scrambling

shortening

tumbling

typewriting

unfailing

unfeeling

unwilling

uprising

abiding

aligning

alluring

amazing

approaching

assuming

ballooning

battening

beguiling

blundering

blustering

bungling

colouring

concurring

contracting

converging

conveying

cradling

crippling

debating

deserving

detailing

discerning

divining

drizzling

factoring

faltering

fastening

freewheeling

galloping

happening

heartbreaking

laundering

lawmaking

leveling

lightening

lumbering

maddening

meddling

middling

obliging

opposing

outgoing

peddling

piddling

plastering

polluting

prevailing

proceeding

profiling

provoking

reducing

retiring

reversing

scavenging

scribbling

settling

sizzling

softening

tabling

thundering

transporting

undoing

whitening

broadcasting

complaining

completing

bullying

sojourning

compounding

maturing

ravishing

arriving

bettering

bickering

billowing

confounding

consulting

contacting

shortcoming

damaging

machining

dumbfounding

caressing

echoing

favoring

tormenting

fatherly

importing

laboring

assuring

carousing

afflicting

unyielding

backsliding

forecasting

handwriting

hydraulic

vanishing

astounding

attracting

flavoring

glimmering

journeying

frustrating

lettering

murmuring

neutering

papering

peppering

adjoining

motoring

wrongdoing

abducting

mellowing

neighboring

pickering

pitying

seagoing

shimmering

surveying

tailoring

tapering

winnowing

yellowing

forthcoming

accusing

affecting

amusing

ascending

backbiting

campaigning

bloodsucking

commuting

composing

conceding

confiding

connecting

consuming

dampening

declining

decreasing

degrading

dissecting

dissolving

downsizing

dwindling

erecting

erupting

fatherland

good-looking

housekeeping

housewarming

inserting

lactating

lamenting

life-giving

misleading

nerve-racking

networking

offsetting

oncoming

outfitting

railroading

reclining

revolting

succeeding

surprising

trumpeting

trembling

unwitting

typesetting

upsetting

butchering

crocheting

feathering

issuing

measuring

nourishing

wagering

weathering

withering

conflicting

everything

hydraulics

refreshing

blanketing

groundbreaking

matchmaking

beholding

brainwashing

challenging

twinkling

warehousing

outstanding

tinkling

arresting

becoming

befitting

beginning

believing

besetting

blistering

centering

correcting

crusading

deadening

deafening

delighting

designing

dividing

emitting

ensuing

entering

forbidding

forgiving

glistening

leavening

lessening

listening

locating

opening

opining

pervading

pilfering

preceding

presiding

quickening

reasoning

reckoning

relieving

rendering

repeating

reviving

riveting

seasoning

seducing

sickening

stiffening

surpassing

surrounding

surviving

sweetening

tempering

thickening

threatening

ticketing

undying

visiting

well-being

whispering

accenting

childbearing

disgusting

dissembling

enclosing

exacting

improving

increasing

inspiring

unsparing

unbending

distressing

engrossing

engraving

utterly

enlisting

exulting

hairdressing

imploring

insulting

perplexing

installing

misspelling

confusing

exhausting

shipbuilding

landholding

convincing

expelling

expiring

reflecting

unflinching

anything

arranging

belonging

beseeching

besieging

churchgoing

constricting

cushioning

fingering

finishing

lingering

rejoicing

soldiering

tinkering

motherly

enchanting

southerly

bullfighting

bookkeeping

defusing

descending

despairing

disguising

dissenting

dressmaking

emptying

endearing

enticing

equating

exceeding

exciting

imposing

incoming

infighting

invading

inviting

kidnapping

misgiving

mistaking

motherland

persisting

relapsing

resisting

sleepwalking

distracting

eavesdropping

expanding

imprinting

exploring

interesting

landscaping

languishing

unthinking

bushwhacking

engaging

patrolman

thanksgiving

enduring

excepting

existing

impending

investing

respecting

painstaking

strengthening

bitterly

guttural

lateral

featherly

natural

weatherly

betrayal

neutralist

neutrally

retrial

sterilize

vitriol

neutralize

federal

betrayals

caterwaul

federals

literal

littoral

4 syllable words

moderating

operating

underlying

unavailing

oscillating

nonrecurring

gratifying

overarching

overlying

pioneering

barbecuing

domineering

fascinating

obviating

occupying

unassuming

agonizing

annotating

diagnosing

dominating

fireproofing

laminating

suffocating

overflowing

overlapping

overruling

bicycling

vacillating

partitioning

complicating

unrelenting

realizing

separating

liberating

agitating

disheartening

activating

advertising

aggravating

disapproving

petroleum

everlasting

maximizing

overwhelming

penetrating

unbelieving

underpinning

undertaking

underwriting

unremitting

waterproofing

admonishing

astonishing

fluctuating

undulating

awakening

bewildering

appetizing

detonating

developing

disabling

disappearing

hesitating

inquiring

irritating

mitigating

never-ending

overcoming

overpowering

overrating

persevering

centralizing

corresponding

disconcerting

integrating

condescending

discouraging

encouraging

energizing

oceangoing

overhauling

parachuting

petitioning

edifying

notifying

reentering

captivating

circulating

denigrating

devastating

disappointing

embarrassing

encircling

understanding

dispiriting

emphasizing

enlightening

entertaining

enveloping

examining

interlocking

interviewing

mountaineering

palpitating

patronizing

unbecoming

inheriting

conditioning

disparaging

engineering

speechifying

sterility

sterilizes

vitriolic

legislating

babysitting

calculating

delegating

encompassing

enterprising

executing

implicating

intersecting

overbearing

notwithstanding

tutorial

neutralizes

registering

neutralism

coexisting

naturalists

distributing

fingerprinting

disengaging

inhibiting

federalist

merchandising

neutrality

laterally

naturalist

petrology

naturally

federalists

sterilizer

material

materiel

distinguishing

naturalize

materials

materiels

sterilizers

tutorials

naturalized

literally

federalize

ethereal

7 syllable words

Words that rhyme with the word starling

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  • 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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When creating lyrics, there are five types of rhymes to choose from.

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Different Types of Rhymes
  • Mascline rhymes: have a stressed syllable
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