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

caning

draining

feigning

straining

training

waning

aching

ailing

baiting

painting

baking

bracing

braiding

braving

breaking

fainting

blazing

burning

casing

chafing

chasing

churning

cleaning

craving

dining

earning

facing

fading

failing

fining

flaming

framing

gaming

glazing

grading

grating

grayling

grazing

greening

jailing

kenning

lading

leaning

learning

lining

mailing

making

meaning

mining

pacing

panning

paving

phasing

phrasing

pining

plating

quaking

racing

railing

raising

raking

raving

sailing

saving

scaling

scraping

screening

shading

shaving

shining

signing

slating

stating

staving

tailing

taking

tanning

tracing

trading

trailing

turning

twining

veiling

wading

waiting

waking

whaling

yearning

fraying

laying

paying

playing

praying

saying

swaying

weighing

aging

banging

bathing

beijing

clanging

hanging

paging

plaything

raging

staging

banding

basting

bending

binding

blending

blinding

chanting

dancing

ending

evening

fencing

finding

glancing

grinding

landing

lending

lightning

minding

panting

pending

planting

pointing

slanting

spending

standing

tasting

wasting

winding

airing

awning

backing

bagging

batting

beading

beaming

bearing

beating

bedding

belling

biding

biting

blaring

bleeding

bleeping

blessing

boiling

boning

breeding

briefing

broiling

browning

burping

ceiling

chirping

climbing

clowning

coiling

cracking

creaking

creeping

crooning

cunning

curling

damning

daring

dawning

dealing

derring

dicing

diving

dragging

dressing

driving

dwelling

easing

eating

eking

erring

feeding

feeling

fehling

fighting

filing

firing

flagging

flaring

fleeting

fleming

foiling

freaking

freezing

gadding

gassing

getting

ginning

girding

glaring

greeting

grieving

gunning

having

heading

healing

hearing

heating

heaving

herring

hiding

hurling

hurting

icing

inning

jeering

jerking

jetting

keeling

keeping

lagging

lapping

laughing

leading

leaking

leaping

leasing

legging

lemming

lighting

liking

loaning

madding

mapping

matting

meeting

nagging

napping

netting

nursing

packing

padding

pairing

paring

passing

peaking

pegging

petting

piling

piping

pleading

pleasing

pressing

priming

pruning

racking

reading

riding

rising

running

sacking

sagging

scheming

screaming

seating

seeling

seeming

seizing

serving

setting

shedding

sheeting

shelling

shirting

shredding

siding

sighting

sizing

skirting

slapping

sledding

sleeping

sliding

slighting

smacking

smelling

snapping

sneaking

sneezing

sparing

speaking

spelling

sperling

spinning

spurling

squeezing

stacking

stealing

sterling

strapping

streaming

striking

striving

stunning

swearing

sweating

sweeping

sweeting

swelling

swooning

tacking

teaming

teeming

telling

tiding

tuning

viking

voiding

wearing

weaving

webbing

wedding

weeding

weeping

whacking

wheeling

whirling

whiting

winning

wiring

wording

working

wrecking

writing

yearling

yelling

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

banking

branching

franking

nanking

planking

spanking

being

buying

crying

drying

dyeing

dying

flying

frying

lying

peeing

prying

seeing

sighing

stirring

trying

tying

vying

birthing

bleaching

breathing

breeching

catching

crashing

dashing

edging

etching

fetching

flashing

hatching

lashing

latching

longing

matching

merging

patching

preaching

purging

ringing

scratching

searching

sheathing

singing

springing

stinging

stretching

teaching

teething

thrashing

wringing

tithing

handling

bonding

breasting

bunting

fielding

founding

rifling

bouncing

bounding

resting

rounding

scalping

sapling

belting

acting

blasting

asking

camping

casting

crackling

daunting

funding

cresting

drafting

glinting

grafting

grounding

heckling

helping

horning

grappling

grasping

hounding

hunting

lamping

lasting

melting

mincing

morning

mounting

mourning

pelting

pouncing

pounding

printing

rafting

seedling

shunting

squinting

stamping

straddling

tackling

tamping

taunting

testing

trifling

vesting

wanting

weakling

wincing

angling

warning

wielding

wilding

shelving

sounding

wrestling

shafting

smelting

yielding

barring

bidding

billing

blocking

blooming

boating

bolling

booming

booting

boozing

boring

bowling

brawling

brimming

broking

brooding

browsing

bruting

bucking

budding

butting

calling

calming

caulking

chilling

chipping

choking

chopping

clearing

clipping

cloaking

clocking

clogging

closing

clouding

clucking

coating

cocking

codding

colling

combing

coming

cooking

cooling

coping

cribbing

crossing

culling

curing

cutting

digging

dilling

dipping

docking

doting

doubting

drilling

dripping

dropping

drugging

drumming

dubbing

ducking

dueling

during

earring

falling

filling

fitting

flitting

floating

flogging

flooding

flooring

foaming

footing

fruiting

fucking

fuming

galling

gearing

giving

gloaming

grooming

grouping

grouting

hilling

hissing

hitting

hogging

holing

homing

hopping

housing

hugging

humming

jarring

jogging

joking

jutting

kicking

killing

knitting

knocking

licking

living

loading

logging

looking

looming

looping

lopping

loring

losing

loving

milling

missing

mocking

mooring

moving

mugging

musing

muting

nipping

nodding

nosing

nutting

offing

oozing

outing

picking

plodding

plugging

plumbing

poking

poling

polling

pooling

popping

pouting

prowling

pudding

puffing

putting

quilling

ribbing

rigging

roaring

rocking

rolling

roofing

rousing

roving

rubbing

ruling

scarring

schilling

schooling

shearing

shilling

shipping

shocking

shooting

shoring

shrouding

sitting

skilling

skimming

slitting

sloping

slotting

smoking

sniffing

snoring

soaking

soaring

sobbing

sopping

stalling

steering

sticking

stirrings

stocking

stooping

stopping

stowing

stranger

stripping

stroking

strutting

stuffing

sucking

suiting

swimming

talking

thrilling

ticking

tipping

tooling

topping

tossing

tricking

trilling

trimming

tripping

trucking

tubing

veering

voting

walking

walling

wapping

whipping

whooping

whopping

willing

yachting

drinking

earthling

fledgling

launching

lunching

pinching

shrinking

sinking

stinking

thinking

bitching

blowing

blueing

bluing

blushing

bowing

brewing

brushing

chewing

clothing

coaching

cooing

couching

crowing

crushing

dishing

doing

drawing

fishing

flowing

flushing

foundling

glowing

going

groundling

growing

gushing

judging

kindling

knowing

lawing

loathing

lodging

lowing

matron

mowing

nestling

nothing

owing

patron

pitching

pushing

rambling

screwing

sewing

showing

slouching

smoothing

soothing

stitching

suing

switching

tempting

throwing

touching

washing

westling

wishing

witching

inkling

sprinkling

arming

boarding

boasting

bolting

boxing

buckling

building

carling

carping

carving

charming

coasting

coaxing

costing

coupling

coursing

cuddling

darling

duckling

farming

faulting

fixing

folding

forcing

forming

frosting

gilding

golding

golfing

harping

hoarding

holding

hosting

jumping

kipling

lifting

listing

lumping

malting

marking

molting

morphing

moulding

ousting

parking

parting

piercing

pimping

posting

pumping

quilting

roasting

romping

salting

scolding

scrimping

sharking

shifting

shuffling

sibling

snarling

sparling

sporting

starling

starting

storming

strangely

strangers

stripling

suckling

thrusting

thumping

tilting

toasting

trusting

twisting

vaulting

warling

warming

warping

whistling

whitling

hamstring

wellspring

arching

bulging

farthing

forging

marching

matrons

something

scorching

patrons

dumpling

sparkling

shoestring

citrin

daydream

stringer

stringy

offspring

sternly

daydreams

stringers

outrun

squadron

sterner

sternpost

strengthen

return

streamers

retrench

hydrants

sternposts

strengthens

citron

sauternes

patterned

returns

saturns

moderns

patterns

dethrone

strangler

strangle

streamer

stroma

latrines

hydrant

stringent

modern

pattern

saturn

sauterne

stormy

strongly

southern

bedroom

citrine

hadron

headroom

latrine

midterm

streamline

adorns

bedrooms

midterms

outruns

quadrant

squadrons

hawthorns

stronghold

strongholds

adorn

cutworm

hawthorn

cutworms

3 syllable words

arriving

favoring

flavoring

ironing

journeying

laboring

neighboring

papering

tailoring

tapering

arranging

wagering

campaigning

ensuing

entering

governing

happening

fastening

leavening

opining

seasoning

surrounding

sweetening

tabling

surviving

lessening

lightening

locating

maddening

paneling

prevailing

reasoning

reckoning

rendering

threatening

whitening

pervading

aligning

battening

centering

channeling

crusading

amazing

cradling

deadening

debating

deafening

designing

detailing

discerning

divining

lawmaking

brainwashing

annoying

bettering

carrying

vanishing

battering

buffeting

canoeing

caressing

chattering

adjoining

carousing

dairying

anything

dialing

machining

sojourning

diapering

echoing

flattering

lettering

mellowing

murmuring

narrowing

peppering

scattering

seagoing

shadowing

smattering

surveying

varying

winnowing

yellowing

complaining

painstaking

admiring

adrian

ascending

backbiting

badgering

blackmailing

commanding

concerning

cowering

crocheting

dampening

declining

degrading

descending

dissenting

dressmaking

endearing

enticing

equating

feathering

flowering

gathering

glowering

invading

lactating

lamenting

lowering

measuring

mistaking

nourishing

railroading

reclining

souring

surprising

towering

unfailing

weathering

blanketing

abiding

alerting

matchmaking

annealing

challenging

appealing

arresting

beginning

scavenging

asserting

baffling

ballooning

beguiling

believing

besetting

blundering

cackling

colouring

conveying

correcting

delighting

diverting

dividing

deserving

everything

cycling

engaging

concurring

factoring

forbidding

forgiving

freewheeling

galloping

glistening

highflying

laundering

leveling

listening

meddling

ongoing

opening

peddling

plastering

pondering

preceding

presiding

proceeding

profiling

quickening

raveling

relieving

repeating

retiring

reversing

reviving

settling

sickening

softening

stiffening

surpassing

tempering

thickening

thundering

traversing

undoing

undying

wandering

well-being

accenting

backsliding

enclosing

enduring

engraving

frustrating

impending

enlisting

handwriting

strengthening

tormenting

belonging

beseeching

besieging

churchgoing

conjuring

conquering

cushioning

damaging

diverging

fingering

finishing

gatherings

lingering

ravishing

rejoicing

tinkering

wrongdoing

bickering

billowing

bullying

coloring

copying

covering

glimmering

neutering

offering

shimmering

powdering

stuttering

soldering

motoring

suffering

enchanting

doddering

following

jockeying

watering

pickering

pitying

toweling

abounding

accusing

affecting

amusing

aspiring

bloodletting

bookkeeping

bullfighting

bundling

comforting

commuting

conceding

confiding

connecting

conserving

consoling

consuming

counseling

darkening

decreasing

defusing

despairing

disguising

dissecting

downsizing

dwindling

easterling

emptying

erecting

erupting

exceeding

exciting

fondling

forwarding

gambling

gardening

hardening

housekeeping

incoming

infighting

inserting

inviting

kidnapping

life-giving

misleading

nerve-racking

networking

observing

offsetting

oncoming

pardoning

persisting

pronouncing

relapsing

revolting

revolving

scaffolding

scrambling

shortening

sleepwalking

succeeding

trembling

typesetting

typewriting

underling

unfeeling

unwilling

unwitting

uprising

upsetting

atrium

groundbreaking

heartbreaking

butchering

landscaping

issuing

mothering

languishing

withering

expanding

outstanding

transporting

bungling

bushwhacking

carjacking

converging

obliging

refreshing

tinkling

twinkling

warehousing

agreeing

alluring

becoming

adoring

appalling

assuming

befitting

landholding

blistering

blossoming

bubbling

blustering

bottling

bustling

crippling

emitting

doubling

drizzling

faltering

juggling

lumbering

middling

modeling

mottling

muscling

opposing

ordering

outgoing

outlying

piddling

pilfering

polluting

profiting

promising

provoking

quarreling

reducing

riveting

scribbling

seducing

visiting

whispering

sizzling

ticketing

thanksgiving

vomiting

abducting

conforming

astounding

attracting

broadcasting

childbearing

completing

compounding

confounding

confusing

consulting

contacting

convincing

dissembling

distressing

dumbfounding

engrossing

exacting

excepting

expelling

expiring

forecasting

hairdressing

hardworking

increasing

inspiring

installing

insulting

investing

misspelling

perplexing

reflecting

respecting

unbending

unsparing

unyielding

veteran

matronly

maturing

polishing

atriums

patronize

assuring

soldiering

modernist

according

alarming

composing

disarming

approving

bloodsucking

carpeting

complying

dissolving

contracting

eavesdropping

foreboding

conflicting

bumbling

departing

good-looking

imposing

housewarming

marketing

misgiving

mumbling

recording

regarding

resisting

rumbling

trumpeting

interesting

tumbling

distracting

imprinting

outfitting

outpouring

patrolling

patronage

unthinking

parceling

approaching

attorneys

beholding

determine

eternal

marshaling

maternal

modernists

paternal

peterman

strontium

unflinching

waterman

afflicting

improving

shoplifting

shipbuilding

absorbing

disgusting

exhausting

existing

exulting

harvesting

imploring

importing

shortcoming

constricting

buttermilk

forthcoming

adrenal

adherents

attorney

exploring

uterine

lutheran

retrenchment

modernize

adherence

adherent

adornment

retrenchments

southerners

deterrents

nutrients

southernmost

southerner

deterrence

odorant

retirements

utterance

veterans

lutherans

determent

betterment

determined

determines

deterrent

nutrient

outermost

watermark

stringency

detriment

watermarks

dithyramb

yttrium

strangulate

4 syllable words

awakening

operating

moderating

pioneering

reentering

separating

liberating

enlightening

entertaining

patronizing

agonizing

babysitting

annotating

delegating

diagnosing

detonating

appetizing

disabling

fascinating

dominating

hesitating

irritating

laminating

mitigating

never-ending

obviating

oscillating

overrating

suffocating

unavailing

vacillating

agitating

encouraging

energizing

edifying

gratifying

overlying

realizing

circulating

disappointing

emphasizing

interviewing

palpitating

examining

underpinning

undertaking

underwriting

activating

advertising

aggravating

denigrating

maximizing

penetrating

captivating

devastating

encircling

speechifying

admonishing

disengaging

engineering

fluctuating

legislating

merchandising

undulating

bicycling

developing

occupying

overbearing

domineering

inquiring

nonrecurring

fireproofing

overcoming

overflowing

persevering

overlapping

overruling

overpowering

unassuming

underlying

calculating

centralizing

complicating

executing

implicating

encompassing

enterprising

integrating

unrelenting

overhauling

discouraging

oceangoing

overarching

parachuting

maternity

petitioning

adrenalin

registering

paternity

barbecuing

embarrassing

enveloping

everlasting

interlocking

mountaineering

notifying

overwhelming

unbecoming

unbelieving

unremitting

waterproofing

quadrennial

astonishing

modernism

modernizes

utterances

partitioning

conditioning

disparaging

inheriting

inhibiting

condescending

corresponding

disconcerting

intersecting

bewildering

disappearing

notwithstanding

adrenaline

determinant

disheartening

patronizes

patronymic

distributing

eternally

eternity

modernity

quaternary

understanding

coexisting

disapproving

dispiriting

fingerprinting

determinants

father-in-law

mother-in-law

adrenergic

veterinary

watermelon

returnable

strangulation

determinist

strangulations

detrimental

patrimonial

distinguishing

hydrometer

matrimony

deodorants

patrimony

deodorant

retirement

watermelons

determinate

6 syllable words

Words that rhyme with the word straining

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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