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

surprise

blazing

grazing

burping

chirping

glazing

phasing

phrasing

raising

rising

sizing

beijing

grappling

sapling

aching

ailing

airing

baiting

baking

bearing

biding

biting

blaring

bracing

braiding

braving

breaking

browsing

burning

caning

casing

chafing

chasing

churning

climbing

craving

curling

daring

derring

dicing

dining

diving

draining

driving

earning

earthling

easing

erring

facing

fading

failing

feigning

fighting

filing

fining

firing

flaming

flaring

framing

freezing

gaming

girding

glaring

grading

grating

grayling

herring

hiding

housing

hurling

hurting

icing

jailing

jerking

lading

lapping

learning

lighting

liking

lining

mailing

making

mapping

mining

napping

nursing

pacing

pairing

paring

paving

piling

pining

piping

plating

pleasing

priming

quaking

racing

railing

raking

raving

riding

rousing

sailing

saving

scaling

scraping

seizing

serving

shading

shaving

shining

shirting

siding

sighting

signing

skirting

slapping

slating

sliding

slighting

snapping

sneezing

sparing

sperling

spurling

squeezing

stating

staving

sterling

straining

strapping

striking

striving

swearing

tailing

taking

tiding

tracing

trading

trailing

training

turning

twining

veiling

viking

wading

waiting

waking

waning

wearing

wellspring

whaling

whirling

whiting

wiring

wording

working

writing

yearling

yearning

nestling

paging

rambling

birthing

raging

tempting

purging

plaything

bathing

tithing

buying

merging

frying

searching

laying

praying

prying

sighing

aging

handling

lying

playing

stirring

sparkling

drying

staging

dying

tying

dyeing

paying

trying

swaying

crying

flying

fraying

saying

vying

westling

weighing

acting

banding

arming

asking

basting

belting

blasting

binding

bending

blending

blinding

boarding

camping

angling

breasting

carling

carping

carving

cresting

charming

crackling

casting

coupling

dancing

coursing

chanting

darling

grasping

glancing

harping

heckling

helping

lightning

lending

grafting

grinding

lamping

landing

lasting

ending

farming

drafting

fainting

fencing

finding

forcing

forming

hoarding

horning

kipling

marking

melting

minding

morning

morphing

mourning

painting

pending

rafting

panting

parting

pelting

piercing

planting

resting

rifling

scalping

parking

shafting

sharking

smelting

shelving

slanting

snarling

sparling

spending

sporting

stamping

standing

starling

starting

storming

straddling

stripling

tackling

tamping

tasting

testing

trifling

vesting

warling

warming

warning

warping

wasting

wilding

winding

wrestling

arching

banking

branching

fledgling

farthing

forging

franking

hamstring

offspring

marching

planking

scorching

nanking

spanking

backing

bagging

barring

batting

beading

beaming

beating

bedding

belling

bleeding

bleeping

blessing

boiling

boozing

briefing

chipping

chopping

clipping

closing

coiling

coping

creaking

boring

breeding

broiling

ceiling

cleaning

clearing

cracking

creeping

curing

damning

dealing

dipping

dragging

dressing

dripping

during

earring

dropping

dwelling

eating

eking

feeding

feeling

fehling

flagging

fleeting

fleming

flooring

foiling

freaking

gadding

gassing

gearing

getting

greening

greeting

grieving

grouping

having

heading

healing

hearing

heating

heaving

hopping

jarring

jeering

keeling

keeping

kenning

lagging

laughing

leading

leaking

leaning

jetting

leaping

leasing

legging

lemming

looping

lopping

loring

losing

madding

matting

meaning

meeting

mooring

nipping

musing

nagging

netting

nosing

oozing

packing

padding

pleading

pressing

panning

pegging

petting

reading

popping

racking

passing

peaking

roaring

sacking

scarring

sagging

scheming

screaming

screening

seating

seeling

seeming

setting

shearing

shedding

sheeting

shelling

shipping

shoring

shredding

sledding

sleeping

sloping

smacking

smelling

sneaking

snoring

soaring

sopping

speaking

spelling

stacking

stealing

steering

stooping

stopping

streaming

stripping

sweating

sweeping

sweeting

swelling

tacking

tanning

teaming

teeming

telling

tipping

topping

tripping

veering

voiding

wapping

weaving

webbing

wedding

weeding

weeping

whacking

wheeling

whipping

whooping

whopping

wrecking

yelling

dumpling

shoestring

groundling

kindling

foundling

breeching

catching

banging

bleaching

breathing

clanging

crashing

dashing

edging

etching

fetching

flashing

hanging

hatching

lashing

matching

latching

patching

preaching

scratching

sheathing

stretching

teaching

teething

thrashing

being

peeing

drawing

mowing

lawing

seeing

sprinkling

inkling

forefront

boasting

bolting

bonding

bouncing

bounding

boxing

buckling

building

bunting

costing

cuddling

daunting

duckling

evening

fielding

coasting

coaxing

faulting

fixing

folding

founding

frosting

funding

glinting

hosting

gilding

golding

grounding

holding

hounding

golfing

hunting

lifting

listing

lumping

jumping

malting

mincing

molting

moulding

mounting

pointing

posting

pouncing

pounding

printing

roasting

seedling

shifting

shuffling

shunting

sibling

sounding

taunting

thumping

toasting

trusting

twisting

wincing

ousting

pimping

suckling

pumping

romping

rounding

salting

scrimping

quilting

scolding

squinting

thrusting

tilting

vaulting

weakling

whistling

wielding

yielding

wanting

whitling

herbers

servers

airborne

bulging

drinking

launching

lunching

performs

pinching

surfers

purports

shrinking

sinking

something

stinking

thinking

bidding

boating

boning

booting

awning

billing

blocking

blooming

bolling

booming

bowling

brawling

brimming

broking

brooding

browning

bruting

bucking

budding

butting

calling

calming

caulking

chilling

choking

cloaking

clocking

clogging

clouding

clowning

clucking

coating

cocking

codding

colling

combing

coming

cooking

cooling

cribbing

crooning

dawning

culling

cunning

cutting

crossing

digging

dilling

docking

fitting

doting

doubting

drilling

drugging

dueling

flitting

drumming

dubbing

ducking

filling

floating

falling

flogging

foaming

footing

galling

ginning

giving

grouting

gunning

hugging

gloaming

grooming

holing

homing

humming

flooding

fruiting

hilling

hitting

hogging

inning

fuming

hissing

fucking

jogging

joking

jutting

kicking

killing

knitting

loading

knocking

licking

living

loaning

logging

looking

looming

loving

milling

missing

mocking

moving

mugging

muting

nodding

nutting

offing

outing

picking

plodding

plugging

plumbing

poking

poling

polling

pooling

pouting

prowling

pruning

pudding

rigging

rocking

rolling

puffing

putting

quilling

ribbing

roofing

roving

rubbing

ruling

running

schilling

schooling

shilling

shocking

shooting

shrouding

sitting

skilling

skimming

slitting

slotting

smoking

sniffing

soaking

sobbing

spinning

stalling

sticking

stocking

stowing

stroking

strutting

stuffing

stunning

sucking

suiting

swimming

swooning

talking

thrilling

ticking

tooling

tossing

tricking

trilling

trimming

trucking

tubing

tuning

voting

walking

walling

willing

winning

yachting

bitching

blushing

brushing

carefree

clothing

coaching

couching

crushing

dishing

fishing

flushing

gushing

harpers

judging

loathing

lodging

longing

nothing

perverts

pitching

purport

pushing

ringing

singing

slouching

smoothing

soothing

springing

stinging

stitching

switching

touching

washing

wishing

witching

wringing

blowing

bluing

bowing

blueing

chewing

brewing

cooing

going

drawbridge

flowing

growing

owing

screwing

doing

knowing

crowing

glowing

lowing

sewing

showing

suing

throwing

perverse

pervert

graybeards

dearborn

graveyards

airframes

harebrained

forebear

prepares

therefore

warfare

wherefore

perforce

perform

berber

draper

herber

fervor

scraper

server

surfer

trapper

wrapper

forebrain

airframe

torpor

prepare

harper

sharper

carper

proverbs

graybeard

prepared

cropper

driver

dropper

forebears

graveyard

gripper

grouper

proper

scriber

shriver

tripper

trooper

arbor

barber

barbre

carver

drivers

droppers

freeborn

grabbers

grievers

groupers

harbor

marver

prefers

scrapers

scrubbers

trappers

trippers

troopers

wrappers

barbers

carvers

harbors

crawford

crowbar

proverb

traverse

craver

drover

grabber

graver

griever

groover

prefer

proffer

scrubber

3 syllable words

handwriting

admiring

disguising

downsizing

backbiting

enticing

pervading

opining

surpassing

warehousing

everything

dairying

murmuring

surveying

journeying

carrying

papering

peppering

tapering

varying

backsliding

perplexing

approving

aspiring

blackmailing

bullfighting

campaigning

complying

confiding

declining

decreasing

degrading

dressmaking

emptying

exciting

gambling

infighting

inviting

lactating

persisting

railroading

reclining

scrambling

sleepwalking

trembling

approaching

engaging

abiding

aligning

blanketing

agreeing

appealing

arresting

baffling

battening

beguiling

cackling

channeling

correcting

cradling

brainwashing

deadening

deafening

delighting

designing

dividing

divining

fastening

forbidding

forgiving

happening

highflying

leavening

lessening

leveling

maddening

meddling

opposing

outlying

paneling

peddling

presiding

profiling

quarreling

raveling

reckoning

matchmaking

repeating

threatening

obliging

retiring

reviving

settling

surrounding

tabling

tempering

undying

well-being

abducting

anything

arranging

attracting

caressing

chairperson

churchgoing

complaining

completing

confusing

copying

diapering

enclosing

engraving

expiring

frustrating

imploring

improving

increasing

inspiring

narrowing

strengthening

nourishing

bloodsucking

dampening

enchanting

darkening

defusing

departing

erupting

exceeding

misleading

oncoming

tumbling

typesetting

unfeeling

upsetting

dwindling

mumbling

parceling

pardoning

patrolling

accusing

amusing

composing

conceding

gardening

housewarming

imposing

shortening

succeeding

incoming

bumbling

bundling

carpeting

hardening

fondling

scaffolding

marketing

counseling

rumbling

contracting

distracting

eavesdropping

exploring

groundbreaking

imprinting

interesting

transporting

becoming

believing

drizzling

middling

mottling

muscling

modeling

vomiting

listening

annealing

appalling

opening

amazing

glistening

whispering

ordering

juggling

marshaling

ensuing

bottling

bubbling

blossoming

colouring

crippling

relieving

profiting

promising

quickening

thickening

proceeding

riveting

sickening

scribbling

sizzling

sweetening

ticketing

refreshing

tinkling

scavenging

carjacking

bushwhacking

bustling

doubling

twinkling

perversion

piddling

softening

challenging

stiffening

bungling

accenting

astounding

broadcasting

compounding

confounding

consulting

contacting

disgusting

distressing

dumbfounding

engrossing

enlisting

exacting

exhausting

exulting

forecasting

harvesting

hairdressing

importing

installing

insulting

impending

respecting

shipbuilding

shoplifting

shortcoming

annoying

bullying

dialing

damaging

adjoining

echoing

ironing

machining

vanishing

jockeying

cushioning

pitying

toweling

besieging

shadowing

belonging

ravishing

mellowing

rejoicing

yellowing

forthcoming

according

corporal

abounding

commanding

consoling

disarming

commuting

endearing

erecting

foreboding

good-looking

outpouring

recording

regarding

relapsing

revolving

trumpeting

unwilling

unwitting

corporate

dissolving

perforates

alarming

despairing

misgiving

firebrick

consuming

perversely

outfitting

pronouncing

beholding

expanding

outstanding

cowering

flowering

glowering

heartbreaking

languishing

layering

lowering

performance

souring

towering

landholding

alluring

asserting

alerting

adoring

assuming

ballooning

befitting

beginning

crusading

cycling

debating

detailing

deserving

discerning

locating

ongoing

polluting

prevailing

provoking

reasoning

seasoning

seducing

traversing

governing

thanksgiving

diverting

emitting

galloping

lawmaking

lightening

outgoing

reducing

reversing

undoing

whitening

enduring

constricting

conforming

dissembling

convincing

misspelling

tormenting

unsparing

unyielding

perforate

absorbing

afflicting

excepting

expelling

assuring

barbaric

corporates

diverging

finishing

firebrand

maturing

polishing

sojourning

wrongdoing

battering

bettering

bickering

billowing

buffeting

canoeing

chattering

coloring

covering

doddering

favoring

flattering

flavoring

following

glimmering

laboring

lettering

motoring

neighboring

neutering

offering

pickering

powdering

scattering

seagoing

shimmering

smattering

soldering

stuttering

suffering

tailoring

watering

winnowing

conserving

dissecting

dissenting

mistaking

observing

proportion

descending

equating

lamenting

networking

affecting

ascending

forwarding

kidnapping

easterling

inserting

comforting

concerning

connecting

invading

life-giving

underling

conflicting

unfailing

withering

converging

unflinching

badgering

wagering

weathering

butchering

gathering

feathering

firebirds

fireproof

measuring

mothering

firebrands

forbearance

issuing

crocheting

besetting

blistering

blundering

blustering

centering

childbearing

concurring

conveying

entering

existing

factoring

faltering

freewheeling

hardworking

investing

laundering

lumbering

painstaking

pilfering

plastering

pondering

preceding

proportions

reflecting

rendering

thundering

unbending

visiting

wandering

conquering

conjuring

surveyors

fingering

paraphrase

purveyors

tripartite

soldiering

performers

beseeching

lingering

tinkering

landscaping

bloodletting

housekeeping

bookkeeping

offsetting

resisting

revolting

performer

prefrontal

hereford

preference

properties

purveyor

surveyor

cerebral

unthinking

draperies

wherever

firebird

bravura

free-for-all

forever

barbershop

barbara

firepower

moreover

preparer

properly

property

bravery

bribery

drapery

shrubbery

barbary

porphyry

preparers

4 syllable words

patronizing

agonizing

fireproofing

merchandising

realizing

energizing

centralizing

advertising

aggravating

circulating

emphasizing

maximizing

underwriting

waterproofing

overrating

perforated

edifying

gratifying

overlying

perforation

activating

captivating

denigrating

enlightening

palpitating

penetrating

fascinating

perforations

detonating

overlapping

delegating

overcoming

overruling

vacillating

overpowering

corporation

annotating

irritating

hesitating

laminating

underlying

inquiring

agitating

overarching

overhauling

parachuting

fingerprinting

calculating

complicating

executing

moderating

liberating

operating

notifying

separating

interlocking

interviewing

corporations

embarrassing

speechifying

devastating

disapproving

dispiriting

encircling

entertaining

everlasting

overwhelming

unbelieving

underpinning

undertaking

admonishing

chiropractic

fluctuating

disparaging

inheriting

legislating

understanding

undulating

persevering

overflowing

unavailing

never-ending

mitigating

overbearing

oscillating

suffocating

occupying

obviating

nonrecurring

disabling

awakening

dominating

unrelenting

implicating

perversity

intersecting

herbarium

proprietor

integrating

propriety

petitioning

disheartening

examining

unbecoming

disappointing

unremitting

barbecuing

conditioning

distributing

proprietors

partitioning

herbariums

astonishing

inhibiting

disappearing

unassuming

encompassing

corresponding

discouraging

corroborates

encouraging

chiropractor

oceangoing

coexisting

pioneering

preparation

barbarity

corroborate

engineering

performances

preferences

developing

diagnosing

preparations

babysitting

bicycling

domineering

notwithstanding

preferable

proverbial

enveloping

mountaineering

proportional

proportionate

disengaging

reentering

chiropractors

arboreal

arboretum

barbarian

barbarism

porphyritic

disconcerting

bewildering

condescending

barbarians

carbureted

prevaricates

registering

preferably

purifiers

periphery

irreverence

irreverent

prevaricate

peripheral

purifier

carborundum

peripherals

distinguishing

preferential

Words that rhyme with the word surprising

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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