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

diving

driving

striving

dicing

strivings

biding

biting

braving

climbing

craving

dining

fighting

filing

fining

firing

grieving

having

heaving

hiding

icing

lighting

liking

lining

loving

mining

paving

piling

pining

piping

priming

raving

riding

rising

saving

shaving

shining

siding

sighting

signing

sizing

sliding

slighting

staving

striking

tiding

twining

viking

weaving

whiting

wiring

writing

buying

crying

drying

dyeing

dying

flying

frying

lying

prying

sighing

trying

tying

vying

tithing

binding

blinding

carving

evening

finding

grinding

lightning

minding

rifling

trifling

wilding

winding

aching

ailing

awning

backing

bagging

baiting

baking

barring

batting

beading

beaming

beating

blazing

bleeding

bleeping

blocking

boiling

boring

bracing

braiding

brawling

breaking

breeding

briefing

broiling

browning

browsing

bucking

budding

butting

calling

calming

caning

casing

caulking

ceiling

chafing

chasing

chopping

cleaning

clocking

clogging

clouding

clowning

clucking

cocking

codding

coiling

colling

coming

cracking

creaking

creeping

crossing

culling

cunning

cutting

damning

dawning

dealing

docking

doubting

dragging

draining

dropping

drugging

drumming

dubbing

ducking

easing

eating

eking

facing

fading

failing

falling

feeding

feeling

feigning

flagging

flaming

fleeting

flogging

flooding

flooring

foiling

framing

freaking

freezing

fucking

gadding

galling

gaming

gassing

giving

glazing

grading

grating

grayling

grazing

greening

greeting

grouting

gunning

healing

hearing

heating

hogging

hopping

housing

hugging

humming

jailing

jarring

jeering

jogging

jutting

keeling

keeping

knocking

lading

lagging

lapping

laughing

leading

leaking

leaning

leaping

leasing

living

logging

lopping

loring

madding

mailing

making

mapping

matting

meaning

meeting

mocking

moving

mugging

nagging

napping

nodding

nutting

offing

outing

pacing

packing

padding

panning

passing

peaking

phasing

phrasing

plating

pleading

pleasing

plodding

plugging

plumbing

popping

pouting

prowling

puffing

putting

quaking

racing

racking

railing

raising

raking

reading

roaring

rocking

rousing

roving

rubbing

running

sacking

sagging

sailing

scaling

scarring

scheming

scraping

screaming

screening

seating

seeling

seeming

seizing

serving

shading

sheeting

shocking

shoring

shrouding

slapping

slating

sleeping

slotting

smacking

snapping

sneaking

sneezing

snoring

soaring

sobbing

sopping

speaking

squeezing

stacking

stalling

stating

stealing

stocking

stopping

straining

strapping

streaming

strutting

stuffing

stunning

sucking

sweeping

sweeting

tacking

tailing

taking

talking

tanning

teaming

teeming

topping

tossing

tracing

trading

trailing

training

trucking

veiling

voiding

wading

waiting

waking

walking

walling

waning

wapping

weeding

weeping

whacking

whaling

wheeling

whopping

yachting

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

being

drawing

fraying

lawing

laying

mowing

paying

peeing

playing

praying

saying

seeing

swaying

weighing

aging

banging

bathing

beijing

bleaching

blushing

breathing

breeching

brushing

catching

clanging

couching

crashing

crushing

dashing

flashing

flushing

gushing

hanging

hatching

judging

lashing

latching

lodging

longing

matching

nothing

paging

patching

plaything

preaching

raging

scratching

sheathing

slouching

staging

teaching

teething

thrashing

touching

washing

acting

arming

asking

banding

boarding

blasting

basting

bonding

bouncing

bounding

boxing

buckling

bunting

camping

carling

carping

casting

chanting

charming

costing

coupling

coursing

crackling

cuddling

dancing

darling

daunting

drafting

duckling

fainting

farming

faulting

fielding

forcing

forming

founding

frosting

funding

glancing

golfing

grafting

grappling

grounding

harping

hoarding

horning

hounding

grasping

hunting

lamping

jumping

landing

lasting

lumping

malting

marking

painting

panting

parking

parting

ousting

planting

pointing

pouncing

pounding

rafting

salting

sapling

romping

rounding

scalping

seedling

shafting

sharking

shelving

shuffling

shunting

slanting

tackling

tamping

tasting

taunting

thrusting

thumping

trusting

vaulting

wanting

warling

warming

warning

warping

wasting

weakling

wielding

yielding

morning

morphing

mounting

mourning

pumping

snarling

sounding

sparling

sporting

stamping

standing

starling

starting

storming

straddling

suckling

airing

bearing

bedding

belling

bidding

billing

blaring

blessing

blooming

boating

bolling

boning

booming

booting

boozing

bowling

brimming

broking

brooding

bruting

burning

burping

chilling

chipping

chirping

choking

churning

clearing

clipping

cloaking

closing

coating

combing

cooking

cooling

coping

cribbing

crooning

curing

curling

daring

derring

digging

dilling

dipping

doting

dressing

drilling

dripping

dueling

during

dwelling

earning

earring

erring

fehling

filling

fitting

flaring

fleming

flitting

floating

foaming

footing

fruiting

fuming

gearing

getting

ginning

girding

glaring

gloaming

grooming

grouping

heading

herring

hilling

hissing

hitting

holing

homing

hurling

hurting

inning

jerking

jetting

joking

kenning

kicking

killing

knitting

learning

legging

lemming

licking

loading

loaning

looking

looming

looping

losing

milling

missing

mooring

musing

muting

netting

nipping

nosing

nursing

oozing

pairing

paring

pegging

petting

picking

poking

poling

polling

pooling

pressing

pruning

pudding

quilling

ribbing

rigging

rolling

roofing

ruling

schilling

schooling

setting

shearing

shedding

shelling

shilling

shipping

shirting

shooting

shredding

sitting

skilling

skimming

skirting

sledding

slitting

sloping

smelling

smoking

sniffing

soaking

sparing

spelling

sperling

spinning

spurling

steering

sterling

sticking

stooping

stowing

stripping

stroking

suiting

swearing

sweating

swelling

swimming

swooning

telling

thrilling

ticking

tipping

tooling

tricking

trilling

trimming

tripping

tubing

tuning

turning

veering

voting

wearing

webbing

wedding

whipping

whirling

whooping

willing

winning

wording

working

wrecking

yearling

yearning

yelling

arching

banking

branching

bulging

farthing

forging

franking

launching

lunching

marching

nanking

planking

scorching

spanking

something

birthing

bitching

blowing

blueing

bluing

bowing

brewing

chewing

clothing

coaching

cooing

crowing

dishing

doing

dumpling

edging

etching

fetching

fishing

flowing

foundling

glowing

going

groundling

growing

handling

knowing

loathing

lowing

merging

owing

pitching

purging

pushing

rambling

ringing

screwing

searching

sewing

showing

singing

smoothing

soothing

sparkling

springing

stinging

stirring

stitching

stretching

suing

switching

throwing

wishing

witching

wringing

angling

striven

belting

bending

blending

boasting

bolting

breasting

building

coasting

coaxing

cresting

ending

fencing

fixing

folding

gilding

glinting

golding

heckling

helping

holding

hosting

kipling

lending

lifting

listing

melting

mincing

molting

moulding

pelting

pending

piercing

pimping

posting

printing

quilting

resting

roasting

scolding

scrimping

shifting

sibling

smelting

spending

squinting

stripling

testing

tilting

toasting

twisting

vesting

whistling

whitling

wincing

wrestling

hamstring

offspring

drinking

earthling

fledgling

sinking

pinching

thinking

shrinking

stinking

tempting

nestling

kindling

shoestring

westling

inkling

sprinkling

starfish

wellspring

adrift

midrib

eyedrop

eyedrops

starboard

stirrup

stripper

redraft

starboards

stirrups

strippers

retrieve

woodroof

3 syllable words

covering

dialing

diapering

favoring

flavoring

ironing

cowering

flowering

glowering

layering

diverging

souring

towering

life-giving

beguiling

believing

governing

raveling

relieving

retiring

lawmaking

lightening

opining

provoking

proceeding

profiling

presiding

highflying

delighting

debating

aligning

abiding

appealing

conveying

cycling

annealing

designing

amazing

traversing

divining

dividing

whitening

annoying

battering

buffeting

canoeing

carousing

carrying

chattering

coloring

copying

doddering

flattering

following

jockeying

laboring

neighboring

offering

papering

seagoing

shadowing

soldering

stuttering

suffering

surveying

tailoring

adjoining

powdering

scattering

smattering

tapering

machining

ravishing

toweling

watering

accusing

admiring

amusing

approving

aspiring

backbiting

badgering

blackmailing

bullfighting

campaigning

commuting

conceding

confiding

conserving

declining

disguising

dissecting

dissolving

downsizing

enticing

exciting

gathering

housekeeping

infighting

inviting

lactating

lowering

mothering

observing

reclining

revolting

revolving

succeeding

surprising

typesetting

typewriting

unfailing

unfeeling

uprising

wagering

adoring

converging

agreeing

alerting

alluring

appalling

asserting

assuming

baffling

ballooning

battening

becoming

blossoming

blundering

blustering

bottling

bubbling

bustling

cackling

channeling

colouring

concurring

cradling

crippling

crusading

deadening

deafening

deserving

detailing

doubling

drizzling

factoring

faltering

fastening

forgiving

freewheeling

galloping

glistening

happening

juggling

laundering

leavening

lessening

leveling

listening

locating

lumbering

maddening

meddling

middling

modeling

mottling

muscling

ongoing

opening

opposing

ordering

outgoing

outlying

paneling

peddling

pervading

piddling

plastering

polluting

pondering

preceding

prevailing

profiting

promising

quarreling

quickening

reasoning

reckoning

reducing

reversing

riveting

seasoning

settling

stiffening

sweetening

thickening

threatening

thundering

ticketing

tabling

undying

vomiting

matchmaking

obliging

wandering

repeating

scribbling

sickening

sizzling

softening

surpassing

surrounding

undoing

scavenging

backsliding

childbearing

complaining

completing

confusing

convincing

engraving

expiring

frustrating

handwriting

harvesting

inspiring

unyielding

anything

arranging

assuring

belonging

beseeching

besieging

conjuring

conquering

cushioning

damaging

maturing

polishing

rejoicing

vanishing

wrongdoing

bettering

bullying

mellowing

bickering

billowing

caressing

dairying

echoing

glimmering

journeying

lettering

motoring

murmuring

narrowing

neutering

peppering

pickering

varying

shimmering

winnowing

pitying

yellowing

abounding

according

affecting

alarming

ascending

bloodletting

bloodsucking

bookkeeping

bumbling

bundling

carpeting

comforting

commanding

complying

composing

concerning

connecting

consoling

consuming

counseling

dampening

darkening

decreasing

defusing

degrading

departing

disarming

dressmaking

dwindling

easterling

endearing

equating

erupting

exceeding

fondling

foreboding

forwarding

gambling

gardening

hardening

housewarming

incoming

invading

kidnapping

lamenting

marketing

misgiving

misleading

mistaking

mumbling

nerve-racking

offsetting

oncoming

outfitting

outpouring

parceling

pardoning

patrolling

pronouncing

railroading

recording

regarding

relapsing

rumbling

scaffolding

scrambling

shortening

sleepwalking

trembling

trumpeting

tumbling

underling

unwilling

unwitting

upsetting

butchering

eavesdropping

crocheting

feathering

issuing

withering

groundbreaking

heartbreaking

measuring

landscaping

nourishing

weathering

approaching

blanketing

brainwashing

bungling

bushwhacking

carjacking

challenging

engaging

everything

marshaling

tinkling

twinkling

warehousing

arresting

besetting

blistering

centering

discerning

ensuing

emitting

entering

rendering

visiting

well-being

seducing

thanksgiving

forbidding

pilfering

tempering

whispering

befitting

beginning

correcting

abducting

absorbing

accenting

afflicting

astounding

attracting

broadcasting

compounding

conforming

confounding

consulting

contacting

disgusting

dumbfounding

enduring

exacting

exhausting

exulting

forecasting

hardworking

imploring

importing

improving

increasing

installing

insulting

investing

painstaking

respecting

shoplifting

shortcoming

strengthening

tormenting

unbending

unsparing

enchanting

forthcoming

tinkering

churchgoing

fingering

finishing

lingering

sojourning

soldiering

dissenting

erecting

inserting

contracting

networking

conflicting

persisting

imposing

distracting

emptying

expanding

exploring

interesting

languishing

good-looking

unthinking

descending

despairing

resisting

outstanding

transporting

starvation

beholding

landholding

refreshing

storybook

unflinching

impending

misspelling

expelling

hairdressing

reflecting

engrossing

distressing

enclosing

enlisting

excepting

existing

perplexing

dissembling

shipbuilding

constricting

retrieval

storybooks

imprinting

diatribe

diatribes

quadruple

retrievers

strawberry

atrophy

attributes

jitterbug

retriever

waterfall

waterfowl

motorbikes

waterfalls

waterproof

attribute

butterball

butterfat

motorbike

motorboat

strawberries

atrophied

atrophies

butterballs

butterflies

petrified

motherboard

leatherback

butterfly

petrify

featherbed

leatherbacks

weatherproof

4 syllable words

pioneering

realizing

moderating

operating

unbelieving

appetizing

bicycling

awakening

diagnosing

agonizing

annotating

delegating

detonating

dominating

inquiring

laminating

suffocating

vacillating

fascinating

fireproofing

hesitating

mitigating

oscillating

unavailing

irritating

obviating

persevering

agitating

energizing

edifying

gratifying

liberating

notifying

overlying

reentering

separating

activating

disapproving

disappointing

aggravating

captivating

devastating

advertising

barbecuing

emphasizing

maximizing

palpitating

penetrating

undertaking

patronizing

enlightening

underwriting

speechifying

fluctuating

merchandising

undulating

babysitting

developing

disabling

disappearing

domineering

never-ending

nonrecurring

occupying

overbearing

overcoming

overflowing

overlapping

overpowering

overrating

overruling

unassuming

underlying

calculating

centralizing

complicating

enterprising

executing

integrating

unrelenting

discouraging

parachuting

petitioning

overhauling

oceangoing

overarching

circulating

denigrating

embarrassing

encircling

entertaining

enveloping

everlasting

examining

interlocking

interviewing

mountaineering

overwhelming

unbecoming

underpinning

unremitting

waterproofing

admonishing

astonishing

engineering

legislating

disengaging

inheriting

inhibiting

partitioning

conditioning

condescending

corresponding

disconcerting

encompassing

implicating

bewildering

registering

disheartening

encouraging

caterpillar

distributing

understanding

coexisting

dispiriting

disparaging

tetravalent

attribution

retribution

caterpillars

notwithstanding

geotropic

intersecting

fingerprinting

distinguishing

motherfucker

adorable

motherfuckers

6 syllable words

Words that rhyme with the word striving

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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
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  • Bulb
  • Wolf
  • Husband
  • Walrus
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