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

nestling

westling

chanting

glinting

panting

painting

bending

slanting

blending

pelting

pending

breasting

belting

fainting

ending

planting

lending

printing

fencing

resting

melting

inkling

sprinkling

cresting

smelting

angling

spending

vesting

squinting

testing

kenning

stunning

banking

cunning

netting

setting

franking

sinking

earthling

stinking

gunning

getting

legging

pegging

running

nanking

planking

wellspring

sweating

branching

petting

drinking

fledgling

shrinking

spanking

pinching

something

thinking

jetting

banging

birthing

clanging

edging

etching

fetching

handling

hanging

kindling

nothing

plaything

ringing

singing

springing

stinging

stretching

stringent

tempting

wringing

acting

banding

basting

blasting

bunting

dancing

daunting

hunting

listing

shafting

shelving

shunting

tasting

taunting

tilting

wrestling

wanting

funding

casting

drafting

glancing

quilting

wincing

twisting

grafting

heckling

helping

mincing

wasting

lasting

landing

lightning

mounting

pointing

rafting

lifting

shifting

standing

airing

awning

bagging

bearing

belling

blaring

blessing

baiting

batting

bedding

browning

bucking

budding

burning

butting

caning

churning

clowning

clucking

coming

culling

cutting

daring

dawning

derring

digging

dining

dragging

draining

dressing

drugging

drumming

dubbing

ducking

dwelling

earning

erring

fehling

feigning

fining

fitting

flagging

flaring

fleming

flitting

flooding

footing

fucking

ginning

glaring

grating

heading

herring

hitting

hugging

humming

hurting

inning

jutting

knitting

lagging

learning

lemming

lining

loving

matting

mining

mugging

nagging

nutting

rigging

launching

pairing

plumbing

pressing

putting

rubbing

hamstring

panning

paring

pining

plating

plugging

puffing

sagging

shedding

shelling

shining

shirting

shredding

signing

sitting

skirting

slating

sledding

slitting

smelling

sparing

spelling

spinning

stating

straining

strutting

stuffing

sucking

swearing

swelling

tanning

telling

training

trucking

turning

twining

lunching

waiting

wearing

waning

webbing

wedding

winning

wrecking

yelling

yearning

groundling

bitching

blushing

brushing

crushing

dishing

shoestring

fishing

flushing

gushing

judging

loathing

longing

pitching

pushing

stitching

switching

foundling

rambling

touching

wishing

witching

asking

binding

blinding

boasting

bolting

bonding

bouncing

bounding

buckling

building

camping

coasting

grappling

grasping

grinding

grounding

horning

hosting

hounding

jumping

kipling

lamping

parting

piercing

pimping

roasting

rounding

salting

sapling

scalping

sounding

sporting

stamping

starting

vaulting

warning

coupling

finding

founding

frosting

cuddling

costing

fixing

crackling

duckling

evening

faulting

gilding

lumping

scrimping

morning

pounding

pumping

malting

molting

mourning

ousting

minding

posting

pouncing

shuffling

sibling

straddling

strangle

stripling

suckling

tackling

tamping

thrusting

thumping

whistling

winding

toasting

trusting

whitling

offspring

patrons

matrons

bulging

clipping

clogging

coating

cooking

cribbing

crooning

craving

cracking

curing

curling

damning

dilling

dipping

doting

doubting

drilling

dripping

during

facing

fading

failing

fighting

filling

flaming

fleeting

floating

flogging

framing

fruiting

gadding

gaming

backing

beating

boating

aching

ailing

bidding

billing

biting

blazing

boning

baking

booting

bracing

braiding

breaking

bruting

cleaning

clearing

earring

brimming

burping

casing

chafing

chasing

chilling

braving

chipping

chirping

eating

gassing

gearing

girding

giving

glazing

grading

grayling

grazing

greening

greeting

grouting

heating

hurling

hogging

hilling

hissing

jailing

having

jerking

jogging

kicking

killing

lading

lapping

laughing

leaning

licking

lighting

living

loaning

logging

looking

madding

mailing

making

mapping

meaning

meeting

milling

missing

mooring

muting

napping

nipping

nursing

outing

pacing

packing

padding

passing

paving

phasing

phrasing

picking

pouting

pruning

pudding

quaking

quilling

racing

racking

railing

raising

raking

raving

ribbing

sacking

sailing

saving

scaling

schilling

scraping

screening

seating

serving

shading

shaving

shearing

sheeting

shilling

shipping

shooting

sighting

skilling

skimming

slapping

slighting

slotting

smacking

snapping

sniffing

sperling

spurling

stacking

staving

steering

sterling

sticking

strapping

stripping

suiting

sweeting

swimming

swooning

tacking

tailing

taking

thrilling

trading

veering

ticking

tipping

tracing

trailing

tricking

trilling

trimming

tripping

tuning

veiling

voting

wading

whacking

waking

whaling

whipping

wording

working

whirling

whiting

willing

writing

yachting

yearling

sparkling

dumpling

aging

bathing

beijing

catching

citrin

citron

crashing

dashing

flashing

hatching

lashing

latching

matching

purging

raging

matron

merging

paging

patching

patron

scratching

searching

staging

thrashing

hydrants

drawing

drying

dyeing

dying

fraying

frying

rifling

lawing

romping

scolding

buying

sparling

trifling

crying

seedling

snarling

yielding

flying

sharking

starling

storming

warling

warming

warping

weakling

wielding

wilding

laying

carping

coursing

fielding

boxing

carling

darling

saying

boarding

carving

folding

marking

lying

mowing

sighing

forming

arming

charming

harping

hoarding

coaxing

holding

golding

golfing

swaying

farming

forcing

morphing

playing

parking

prying

stirring

paying

praying

trying

tying

vying

weighing

moulding

hydrant

outruns

quadrant

squadrons

strongholds

boiling

bolling

booming

bowling

brawling

breeding

briefing

broiling

broking

brooding

browsing

calling

clocking

colling

combing

cooling

coping

creaking

creeping

crossing

dropping

gloaming

foaming

freaking

freezing

foiling

driving

fuming

galling

bleeping

blocking

blooming

boozing

boring

calming

caulking

ceiling

choking

chopping

climbing

cloaking

closing

clouding

cocking

codding

coiling

dealing

dicing

diving

docking

dueling

easing

eking

falling

feeding

feeling

filing

firing

flooring

grieving

grooming

grouping

healing

reading

stalling

stealing

sweeping

talking

teaming

teeming

tiding

tooling

wapping

weaving

weeding

weeping

stooping

stopping

streaming

stirrings

stocking

stowing

striking

striving

stroking

topping

tossing

tubing

viking

voiding

walking

walling

hawthorns

barring

beading

beaming

biding

bleeding

hearing

heaving

hiding

holing

homing

hopping

housing

icing

jarring

jeering

joking

keeling

keeping

knocking

leading

leaking

leaping

leasing

liking

loading

looming

looping

lopping

loring

losing

mocking

moving

musing

nodding

nosing

offing

oozing

peaking

piling

piping

pleading

pleasing

plodding

poking

poling

polling

pooling

popping

priming

prowling

riding

rising

roaring

rocking

rolling

roofing

rousing

roving

ruling

scarring

scheming

schooling

screaming

seeling

seeming

seizing

shocking

shoring

shrouding

siding

sizing

sleeping

sliding

sloping

smoking

sneaking

sneezing

snoring

soaking

soaring

sobbing

sopping

speaking

squeezing

wheeling

whopping

wiring

whooping

stronghold

bleaching

breathing

breeching

clothing

coaching

couching

latrine

lodging

outrun

patterned

patterns

preaching

saturns

sheathing

slouching

smoothing

soothing

squadron

teaching

teething

tithing

washing

strangler

hawthorn

dethrone

being

blowing

blueing

bluing

bowing

brewing

chewing

cooing

crowing

doing

flowing

glowing

going

growing

knowing

lowing

owing

peeing

screwing

seeing

sewing

showing

stringy

suing

throwing

arching

bedrooms

farthing

forging

marching

scorching

stranger

stringers

southern

strongly

adorn

bedroom

daydream

headroom

returns

sauternes

strangely

strangers

stringer

daydreams

retrench

sternly

cutworm

adorns

cutworms

latrines

sternpost

stroma

sterner

sternposts

return

stormy

citrine

moderns

modern

pattern

saturn

sauterne

hadron

midterm

midterms

streamers

streamline

streamer

3 syllable words

bundling

dampening

dwindling

incoming

shortening

trembling

channeling

beginning

centering

entering

fastening

glistening

happening

juggling

leveling

lightening

listening

maddening

meddling

paneling

peddling

quickening

sickening

stiffening

sweetening

thickening

warehousing

interesting

anything

insulting

consulting

exulting

installing

bloodsucking

bumbling

concerning

counseling

darkening

declining

endearing

fondling

gambling

gardening

hardening

mumbling

oncoming

pardoning

reclining

rumbling

scrambling

trumpeting

tumbling

forthcoming

challenging

brainwashing

cradling

crippling

languishing

bustling

cackling

designing

bubbling

bottling

divining

doubling

drizzling

engaging

marshaling

ensuing

middling

scavenging

galloping

mottling

muscling

piddling

riveting

scribbling

seasoning

sizzling

tabling

ticketing

opening

reasoning

softening

baffling

retiring

aligning

becoming

rendering

whitening

raveling

enduring

lingering

engrossing

engraving

adjoining

abducting

enclosing

painstaking

contacting

exhausting

disgusting

exacting

shortcoming

existing

inspiring

machining

tinkering

fingering

admiring

campaigning

carpeting

degrading

dissenting

downsizing

dressmaking

emptying

feathering

invading

kidnapping

lactating

lamenting

marketing

measuring

misgiving

mistaking

nerve-racking

networking

parceling

patronage

regarding

scaffolding

stringency

surprising

weathering

contracting

distracting

expanding

reviving

vomiting

ballooning

blistering

cycling

discerning

factoring

tempering

plastering

profiting

promising

surpassing

surviving

well-being

bushwhacking

arresting

presiding

governing

quarreling

everything

carjacking

opining

correcting

dividing

blossoming

beguiling

modeling

harvesting

imploring

backsliding

hairdressing

accenting

thanksgiving

complaining

enlisting

increasing

expiring

shipbuilding

tormenting

annoying

yellowing

arranging

arriving

journeying

wrongdoing

smattering

flattering

lettering

peppering

rejoicing

bettering

scattering

dialing

narrowing

toweling

conquering

canoeing

carousing

churchgoing

battering

chattering

dairying

echoing

mellowing

varying

winnowing

affecting

blackmailing

decreasing

defusing

ascending

bookkeeping

descending

disguising

exceeding

housewarming

dissecting

dissolving

easterling

erecting

good-looking

imposing

erupting

disarming

infighting

sleepwalking

inserting

inviting

persisting

relapsing

misleading

outpouring

railroading

exploring

butchering

issuing

withering

landscaping

nourishing

veterans

beholding

detriment

matchmaking

retrenchments

annealing

veteran

befitting

believing

emitting

blundering

delighting

deserving

faltering

highflying

detailing

pervading

prevailing

reversing

repeating

pilfering

pondering

profiling

relieving

seducing

surrounding

visiting

wandering

besetting

conveying

laundering

undoing

ongoing

thundering

undying

whispering

outlying

concurring

dissembling

damaging

excepting

matronly

unbending

belonging

besieging

betterment

investing

deterrents

improving

patronize

impending

ravishing

sojourning

handwriting

reflecting

respecting

strangulate

retrenchment

bickering

covering

ironing

neutering

seagoing

pitying

pickering

billowing

buffeting

bullying

caressing

carrying

coloring

favoring

flavoring

glimmering

laboring

motoring

murmuring

neighboring

papering

shadowing

shimmering

stuttering

suffering

surveying

tailoring

tapering

watering

conceding

commanding

confiding

underling

unfailing

transporting

connecting

conserving

consoling

consuming

offsetting

typesetting

unfeeling

departing

bloodletting

resisting

backbiting

abounding

adherents

pronouncing

unwilling

upsetting

unwitting

bullfighting

revolving

foreboding

groundbreaking

imprinting

equating

eavesdropping

exciting

housekeeping

heartbreaking

wagering

badgering

utterance

converging

gathering

deterrence

mothering

refreshing

landholding

layering

abiding

adoring

astounding

shoplifting

unyielding

agreeing

importing

appalling

adherence

dumbfounding

alerting

asserting

assuming

blustering

colouring

debating

adherent

alluring

amazing

appealing

diverting

forbidding

forgiving

freewheeling

locating

lumbering

lutherans

opposing

proceeding

reducing

polluting

preceding

provoking

outgoing

traversing

broadcasting

compounding

conforming

confounding

confusing

convincing

forecasting

perplexing

unsparing

vanishing

retirements

finishing

maturing

assuring

determines

deterrent

determent

determined

gatherings

polishing

adornment

according

accusing

alarming

amusing

approving

aspiring

comforting

commuting

complying

composing

conflicting

copying

despairing

following

jockeying

lutheran

observing

outfitting

outstanding

patrolling

recording

revolting

succeeding

typewriting

unthinking

uprising

adrian

determine

unflinching

attorneys

crocheting

obliging

nutrients

strontium

approaching

absorbing

afflicting

attracting

childbearing

completing

distressing

expelling

frustrating

constricting

crusading

misspelling

lawmaking

cowering

flowering

glowering

lowering

souring

towering

atriums

conjuring

uterine

diverging

nutrient

soldiering

attorney

forwarding

life-giving

diapering

dithyramb

doddering

offering

powdering

soldering

atrium

eternal

maternal

peterman

waterman

odorant

paternal

yttrium

hardworking

ordering

adrenal

beseeching

buttermilk

modernist

modernists

watermarks

southerners

outermost

watermark

southernmost

southerner

modernize

4 syllable words

detonating

conditioning

energizing

petitioning

centralizing

encircling

entertaining

unbecoming

examining

inhibiting

agonizing

awakening

undulating

edifying

gratifying

encouraging

encompassing

enterprising

integrating

activating

aggravating

emphasizing

interlocking

mountaineering

patronizing

underpinning

unbelieving

disheartening

penetrating

annotating

appetizing

astonishing

delegating

developing

disabling

fascinating

fluctuating

hesitating

inquiring

laminating

merchandising

mitigating

partitioning

unassuming

unavailing

adrenalin

discouraging

executing

agitating

disconcerting

parachuting

fingerprinting

oceangoing

notifying

reentering

circulating

advertising

utterances

veterinary

coexisting

enveloping

devastating

embarrassing

maximizing

palpitating

interviewing

disappointing

speechifying

suffocating

inheriting

bicycling

disappearing

persevering

admonishing

bewildering

occupying

vacillating

overcoming

dominating

irritating

disparaging

domineering

determinant

calculating

overhauling

patronymic

registering

separating

pioneering

notwithstanding

disapproving

distributing

determinants

disengaging

overlapping

oscillating

never-ending

overpowering

fireproofing

diagnosing

corresponding

complicating

adrenergic

determinist

unrelenting

adrenaline

patronizes

liberating

overlying

moderating

operating

realizing

everlasting

captivating

legislating

matrimony

modernizes

strangulations

patrimonial

determinate

patrimony

returnable

underlying

babysitting

overflowing

overrating

overruling

condescending

intersecting

eternally

eternity

maternity

modernity

overarching

paternity

strangulation

undertaking

underwriting

waterproofing

denigrating

dispiriting

unremitting

barbecuing

overwhelming

detrimental

obviating

nonrecurring

overbearing

implicating

watermelons

understanding

mother-in-law

watermelon

deodorants

distinguishing

quadrennial

retirement

deodorant

father-in-law

hydrometer

modernism

quaternary

6 syllable words

Words that rhyme with the word strengthening

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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