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

belting

bending

blending

breasting

cresting

ending

fencing

heckling

helping

lending

melting

pelting

pending

resting

shelving

smelting

spending

testing

vesting

wrestling

ailing

braving

breaking

brimming

budding

burning

burping

bucking

butting

blazing

aching

backing

bagging

baiting

baking

batting

bidding

billing

bracing

braiding

caning

casing

chafing

chasing

chilling

chipping

chirping

churning

clearing

clipping

clucking

coming

cooking

cracking

craving

cribbing

culling

cunning

curing

curling

cutting

damning

digging

dilling

dipping

dragging

draining

drilling

dripping

drugging

drumming

dubbing

ducking

during

earning

earring

facing

fading

failing

feigning

filling

fitting

flagging

flaming

flitting

flooding

footing

framing

fucking

gadding

gaming

gassing

gearing

ginning

girding

giving

glazing

grading

grating

grayling

grazing

gunning

having

hilling

hissing

hitting

hugging

humming

hurling

hurting

inning

jailing

jerking

jutting

kicking

killing

knitting

lading

lagging

lapping

laughing

learning

licking

living

looking

loving

madding

mailing

making

mapping

matting

milling

missing

mooring

mugging

nagging

napping

nipping

nursing

nutting

pacing

packing

padding

panning

passing

paving

phasing

phrasing

picking

plating

plugging

plumbing

pudding

puffing

putting

quaking

quilling

racing

racking

railing

raising

raking

raving

ribbing

rigging

rubbing

running

sacking

sagging

sailing

saving

scaling

schilling

scraping

serving

shading

shaving

shearing

shilling

shipping

shirting

sitting

skilling

skimming

skirting

slapping

slating

slitting

smacking

snapping

sniffing

sperling

spinning

spurling

stacking

stating

staving

steering

sterling

sticking

straining

strapping

stretches

stripping

strutting

stuffing

stunning

sucking

swimming

tacking

tailing

taking

tanning

thrilling

ticking

tipping

tracing

trading

trailing

training

tricking

trilling

trimming

tripping

trucking

turning

veering

veiling

wading

waiting

waning

whacking

whaling

waking

whipping

whirling

willing

wording

working

winning

yearling

yearning

arching

bulging

earthling

launching

marching

scorching

something

fraying

laying

paying

playing

praying

saying

stirring

swaying

weighing

breathing

ringing

soothing

sheathing

nestling

banging

clothing

hanging

loathing

lodging

singing

clanging

smoothing

springing

stinging

teething

tempting

tithing

washing

wringing

westling

acting

asking

banding

blasting

building

basting

buckling

bunting

casting

camping

chanting

coupling

crackling

fixing

grafting

grappling

duckling

funding

gilding

glancing

glinting

fainting

dancing

hunting

grasping

drafting

cuddling

jumping

lamping

landing

lasting

kipling

lifting

listing

lumping

painting

planting

mincing

panting

piercing

pimping

printing

quilting

pumping

rafting

sapling

scalping

scrimping

shafting

shifting

shuffling

shunting

sibling

slanting

squinting

stamping

standing

straddling

stripling

suckling

tackling

tamping

tasting

thrusting

thumping

trusting

whitling

wincing

tilting

twisting

wasting

whistling

awning

banking

barring

beading

beaming

beating

biding

biting

bleeding

bleeping

blocking

blooming

boating

boiling

bolling

boning

booming

booting

boozing

boring

bowling

brawling

breeding

briefing

broiling

broking

brooding

browning

browsing

bruting

calling

calming

caulking

ceiling

choking

chopping

cleaning

climbing

cloaking

clocking

clogging

closing

clouding

clowning

coating

cocking

codding

coiling

colling

combing

cooling

coping

creaking

creeping

crooning

crossing

dawning

dealing

dicing

dining

diving

docking

doting

doubting

drinking

driving

dropping

dueling

easing

eating

eking

falling

farthing

feeding

feeling

fighting

filing

fining

firing

fleeting

floating

flogging

flooring

foaming

foiling

forging

franking

freaking

freezing

fruiting

fuming

galling

gloaming

greening

greeting

grieving

grooming

grouping

grouting

healing

hearing

heating

heaving

hiding

hogging

holing

homing

hopping

housing

icing

jarring

jeering

jogging

joking

keeling

keeping

knocking

leading

leaking

leaning

leaping

leasing

lighting

liking

lining

loading

loaning

logging

looming

looping

lopping

loring

losing

meaning

meeting

mining

mocking

moving

musing

muting

nanking

nodding

nosing

offing

oozing

outing

peaking

piling

pining

piping

planking

pleading

pleasing

plodding

poking

poling

polling

pooling

popping

pouting

priming

prowling

pruning

reading

riding

rising

roaring

rocking

rolling

roofing

rousing

roving

ruling

scarring

scheming

schooling

screaming

screening

seating

seeling

seeming

seizing

sheeting

shining

shocking

shooting

shoring

shrinking

shrouding

siding

sighting

signing

sinking

sizing

sleeping

sliding

slighting

sloping

slotting

smoking

sneaking

sneezing

snoring

soaking

soaring

sobbing

sopping

spanking

speaking

squeezing

stalling

stealing

stinking

stocking

stooping

stopping

stowing

streaming

stretchers

striking

striving

stroking

suiting

sweeping

sweeting

swooning

talking

teaming

teeming

thinking

tiding

tooling

topping

tossing

tubing

tuning

twining

viking

voiding

voting

walking

walling

wapping

weaving

weeding

weeping

wellspring

wheeling

whiting

whooping

whopping

wiring

writing

yachting

dumpling

rambling

handling

kindling

being

blowing

blueing

bluing

bowing

brewing

chewing

buying

longing

cooing

crowing

crying

doing

drawing

drying

dyeing

dying

flowing

flying

frying

glowing

going

growing

knowing

lawing

lowing

lying

mowing

owing

peeing

prying

screwing

seeing

sewing

showing

sighing

stretcher

suing

throwing

trying

tying

vying

angling

inkling

sprinkling

coaxing

coasting

costing

coursing

darling

daunting

hounding

lightning

malting

marking

minding

molting

morning

morphing

moulding

parting

rifling

roasting

storming

taunting

trifling

toasting

charming

farming

evening

faulting

fielding

finding

folding

forcing

golding

golfing

forming

founding

frosting

grinding

grounding

harping

hoarding

holding

horning

romping

rounding

salting

scolding

seedling

sharking

snarling

sounding

sparling

sporting

starling

starting

yielding

blinding

boarding

boasting

bolting

bonding

bouncing

bounding

boxing

binding

arming

carling

carping

carving

hosting

mounting

mourning

ousting

parking

pointing

posting

pouncing

pounding

vaulting

wanting

warling

warming

warning

warping

weakling

wielding

wilding

winding

hamstring

feathered

natured

weathered

foundling

groundling

shoestring

sparkling

offspring

fettered

lettered

petard

featured

sutured

putrid

strident

stretto

sturdy

matured

tetrads

athwart

battered

cutthroat

scattered

shuttered

storied

adroit

attired

retreat

straddles

southward

hatreds

retreads

retreats

woodward

sweetheart

stratum

littered

straddle

stratas

stewards

sweethearts

withered

hatred

hydride

nitride

retard

retired

retort

retread

hydrates

nitrates

outwards

retards

retorts

start-ups

startles

steward

strata

neutered

powdered

hydrate

nitrate

outward

start-up

starters

startle

starter

3 syllable words

deadening

deafening

settling

threatening

peddling

meddling

lessening

leveling

reckoning

leavening

bettering

caressing

dairying

echoing

lettering

mellowing

narrowing

peppering

varying

yellowing

anything

churchgoing

damaging

maturing

ravishing

vanishing

gathering

layering

mothering

issuing

wagering

badgering

withering

trembling

enchanting

arresting

centering

ensuing

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rendering

scribbling

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happening

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crippling

emitting

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sickening

channeling

cradling

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glistening

forgiving

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thickening

piddling

ticketing

galloping

listening

riveting

sizzling

quickening

tabling

visiting

doubling

raveling

bustling

middling

battening

cackling

paneling

baffling

juggling

becoming

befitting

beginning

muscling

drizzling

well-being

approaching

challenging

engaging

everything

matchmaking

refreshing

scavenging

warehousing

adjoining

annoying

arranging

arriving

assuring

battering

beseeching

besieging

bickering

billowing

buffeting

bullying

canoeing

carousing

carrying

chattering

coloring

covering

cushioning

dialing

diverging

enduring

enlisting

excepting

favoring

finishing

flattering

flavoring

glimmering

hairdressing

ironing

journeying

laboring

machining

murmuring

neighboring

papering

pickering

pitying

polishing

rejoicing

scattering

shadowing

shimmering

smattering

strengthening

stuttering

suffering

surveying

tailoring

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toweling

winnowing

dissenting

despairing

dissecting

connecting

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affecting

ascending

bloodletting

dampening

bloodsucking

bumbling

bundling

dressmaking

dwindling

lamenting

mumbling

offsetting

rumbling

scrambling

persisting

crocheting

networking

trumpeting

unwilling

tumbling

unwitting

upsetting

emptying

endearing

enticing

erecting

gambling

good-looking

incoming

misgiving

resisting

scaffolding

typesetting

flowering

lowering

souring

towering

cowering

glowering

obliging

beholding

bungling

languishing

brainwashing

blanketing

bushwhacking

tinkling

converging

marshaling

twinkling

abiding

adoring

agreeing

alerting

aligning

amazing

annealing

appalling

appealing

asserting

assuming

ballooning

beguiling

believing

blistering

blossoming

blundering

blustering

bottling

colouring

concurring

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crusading

cycling

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deserving

designing

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discerning

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dividing

divining

factoring

governing

lawmaking

lightening

locating

lumbering

modeling

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opening

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plastering

polluting

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prevailing

proceeding

profiting

promising

provoking

quarreling

reasoning

reducing

relieving

repeating

retiring

reversing

reviving

seasoning

seducing

softening

surpassing

surrounding

surviving

sweetening

thundering

traversing

undoing

undying

vomiting

whispering

whitening

consulting

childbearing

abducting

accenting

afflicting

convincing

dissembling

distressing

existing

expelling

exulting

insulting

disgusting

impending

enclosing

investing

unflinching

perplexing

reflecting

respecting

shipbuilding

unsparing

misspelling

tormenting

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bedridden

belonging

conjuring

fingering

lingering

sojourning

soldiering

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following

neutering

seagoing

copying

motoring

soldering

forthcoming

watering

diapering

jockeying

powdering

doddering

offering

abounding

according

accusing

admiring

alarming

amusing

approving

aspiring

backbiting

blackmailing

bookkeeping

bullfighting

campaigning

carpeting

comforting

commanding

commuting

complying

composing

conceding

concerning

confiding

conserving

consoling

consuming

counseling

darkening

declining

decreasing

defusing

degrading

departing

disarming

disguising

dissolving

easterling

equating

erupting

exceeding

exciting

fondling

forwarding

gardening

hardening

imposing

infighting

inserting

invading

inviting

kidnapping

lactating

life-giving

marketing

misleading

mistaking

nerve-racking

observing

oncoming

outfitting

parceling

pardoning

patrolling

pronouncing

railroading

reclining

recording

regarding

relapsing

shortening

strategist

succeeding

surprising

underling

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uprising

imprinting

interesting

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unthinking

carjacking

landholding

thanksgiving

backsliding

broadcasting

complaining

freewheeling

laundering

outlying

absorbing

outgoing

attracting

leatherwood

astounding

completing

compounding

conforming

confusing

dumbfounding

engraving

engrossing

strategies

confounding

contacting

exacting

importing

improving

increasing

stratagem

exhausting

expiring

forecasting

frustrating

handwriting

hardworking

harvesting

imploring

inspiring

installing

painstaking

profiling

shoplifting

shortcoming

strategists

highflying

faltering

opining

ordering

pondering

wandering

unyielding

ongoing

preceding

stewardship

constricting

wrongdoing

conquering

attrition

cathartic

contracting

distracting

downsizing

expanding

exploring

foreboding

groundbreaking

heartbreaking

housekeeping

housewarming

landscaping

mithridate

outpouring

outstanding

revolting

revolving

saturate

sleepwalking

stratagems

strategy

transporting

typewriting

mithridates

startlingly

fatherhood

motherhood

nutritive

retarded

federate

eavesdropping

hydration

nutrition

saturdays

stratified

noteworthy

quadratic

saturday

stratify

laterites

moderates

adroitly

patriots

literate

moderate

hitherto

patriot

bitterroot

hydrated

dehydrate

outriders

outrider

4 syllable words

edifying

never-ending

delegating

detonating

hesitating

developing

persevering

agitating

pioneering

encouraging

energizing

overarching

parachuting

registering

gratifying

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emphasizing

denigrating

devastating

encircling

enlightening

enveloping

speechifying

penetrating

bewildering

annotating

bicycling

admonishing

agonizing

disabling

awakening

babysitting

disappearing

domineering

fascinating

inheriting

appetizing

fluctuating

irritating

engineering

mitigating

merchandising

laminating

overbearing

disparaging

legislating

overcoming

suffocating

unassuming

unavailing

vacillating

centralizing

encompassing

executing

federative

discouraging

oceangoing

overhauling

petitioning

liberating

federation

moderating

notifying

operating

overlying

realizing

reentering

saturated

activating

aggravating

captivating

circulating

coexisting

disappointing

disapproving

dispiriting

entertaining

everlasting

examining

maximizing

mountaineering

overwhelming

palpitating

patronizing

unbecoming

unbelieving

underpinning

unremitting

maturation

saturation

inhibiting

partitioning

astonishing

conditioning

disengaging

undulating

disconcerting

diagnosing

dominating

tetrahedron

federations

fireproofing

maturities

obviating

oscillating

underlying

nonrecurring

occupying

overflowing

calculating

enterprising

overrating

condescending

overlapping

overruling

implicating

inquiring

overpowering

integrating

intersecting

unrelenting

disheartening

federated

stewardesses

undertaking

underwriting

interviewing

distributing

maturity

advertising

interlocking

barbecuing

waterproofing

fingerprinting

distinguishing

complicating

corresponding

tetrahedral

strategical

notwithstanding

literature

understanding

iterative

moderated

stereotype

adoration

authority

moderation

dehydration

adriatic

heterodox

patriotic

stereotyped

stereotypes

authorities

nutritional

retardation

moderately

nutritionist

nutritionists

reiterate

moderator

reiterates

meteorite

moderators

iteration

hydrothermal

iterations

literati

dehydrated

Words that rhyme with the word stretching

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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