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Rhymes Here is a list of the words that rhyme with the word surrounding.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 surrounding.
2 syllable words

surrounds

around

handling

surround

bunting

chanting

dancing

daunting

fainting

fencing

folding

glancing

golding

holding

hunting

moulding

ousting

painting

panting

planting

scolding

shunting

slanting

taunting

wanting

awning

bedding

biding

boning

braiding

brooding

browsing

budding

burping

caning

chirping

codding

crooning

cunning

curling

dawning

dining

doubting

draining

fading

feigning

fining

flooding

gadding

grading

grouting

gunning

heading

hiding

housing

lining

loading

loaning

madding

mining

nodding

nursing

outing

hurling

hurting

jerking

kenning

lading

padding

panning

plodding

prowling

pining

pouting

pruning

riding

rousing

running

serving

shading

shedding

shining

shirting

shredding

siding

signing

skirting

sledding

sliding

sperling

spurling

sterling

straining

stunning

swooning

tanning

tiding

trading

training

tuning

twining

wading

waning

wedding

whirling

working

yearling

banking

branching

earthling

franking

launching

lunching

nanking

planking

spanking

banging

bathing

birthing

clanging

clothing

mowing

stirring

couching

hanging

longing

merging

purging

searching

slouching

smoothing

soothing

tithing

rambling

tempting

kindling

nestling

westling

acting

angling

asking

basting

belting

blasting

boarding

boasting

bolting

brandish

breasting

building

burnet

camping

casting

coasting

coaxing

crackling

cresting

cuddling

drafting

evening

fielding

gilding

glinting

grafting

grappling

grasping

heckling

helping

hoarding

horning

hosting

lamping

lasting

lightning

melting

mincing

molting

morning

mourning

pelting

pointing

posting

printing

rafting

resting

roasting

sapling

scalping

shafting

shelving

smelting

squinting

stamping

straddling

tackling

tamping

tasting

testing

toasting

vesting

warning

wasting

wielding

wilding

wincing

wrestling

yielding

backing

bagging

baiting

baking

batting

beading

bearing

belling

bidding

blaring

blazing

bleeding

blessing

blooming

braving

breaking

breeding

bruting

casing

chafing

coping

cooling

errands

cleaning

closing

cracking

dueling

dwelling

stinking

erring

facing

failing

feeding

fehling

flagging

flaming

flaring

fleming

floating

foaming

framing

grating

grayling

grazing

greening

grooming

having

herring

inning

looming

looping

losing

mailing

making

mapping

meaning

musing

matting

muting

nosing

passing

petting

phasing

pleading

poking

poling

polling

roofing

roving

ruling

sacking

sagging

sailing

shaving

shelling

shooting

fledgling

paring

pinching

netting

paving

pegging

phrasing

plating

pooling

rolling

scaling

schooling

scraping

screening

grandson

setting

slapping

slating

shrinking

sinking

farthing

sloping

smacking

smelling

smoking

snapping

soaking

sparing

spelling

spinning

stacking

stating

staving

strapping

stooping

stowing

stroking

suiting

aching

ailing

airing

booming

booting

boozing

bowling

broking

chasing

choking

coating

damning

daring

derring

gaming

gassing

getting

ginning

glaring

glazing

gloaming

holing

homing

lagging

lapping

gerunds

laughing

lemming

pudding

quaking

swearing

racing

racking

nagging

moving

veiling

voiding

voting

waiting

waking

wearing

whooping

wrecking

yelling

winning

webbing

weeding

whacking

whaling

drinking

boating

bracing

cloaking

doting

dragging

fruiting

fuming

grouping

jailing

jetting

leading

leaning

pairing

pressing

raking

raving

groundnut

craving

bolling

combing

dressing

thinking

joking

legging

napping

oozing

pacing

packing

railing

raising

reading

saving

swelling

sweating

tacking

tailing

taking

telling

tooling

tracing

trailing

tubing

dumpling

printings

friendship

shoestring

sparkling

beijing

brandle

breathing

aging

catching

coaching

crandall

crashing

currents

dashing

edging

errand

etching

farrand

fetching

flashing

frantic

fronted

frontier

garand

gerund

hatching

lashing

latching

paging

prentice

raging

ringing

loathing

patching

singing

matching

plaything

scratching

sheathing

springing

staging

stinging

stretching

teething

thrashing

trundle

wringing

chewing

buying

lawing

laying

lowing

grandsons

groundnuts

groundswell

inkling

lying

crowing

crying

drawing

drying

flowing

flying

cooing

sprinkling

blowing

doing

dyeing

dying

fraying

knowing

saying

screwing

sewing

showing

sighing

suing

trying

tying

vying

weighing

swaying

throwing

blueing

brewing

paying

frying

bowing

bluing

glowing

going

growing

owing

playing

praying

prying

arming

carling

boxing

buckling

carping

carving

charming

costing

coupling

darling

duckling

coursing

farming

faulting

fixing

forcing

forming

frontage

frosting

golfing

greyhound

harping

jumping

kipling

lifting

listing

lumping

malting

marking

morphing

parking

parting

piercing

pimping

pumping

quilting

rifling

romping

salting

scrimping

seedling

sharking

shifting

shuffling

sibling

sporting

snarling

starling

starting

sparling

storming

stripling

suckling

thrusting

thumping

tilting

trifling

trusting

twisting

vaulting

warling

warming

warping

weakling

whistling

whitling

brandy

grounder

permit

friendships

current

arching

arrants

bulging

forging

frontiers

groundwork

marching

parents

scorching

something

boiling

briefing

brimming

clearing

brawling

calling

blocking

boring

billing

broiling

calming

bucking

butting

chilling

chipping

chopping

ceiling

caulking

barring

beaming

bleeping

beating

climbing

biting

clipping

clogging

clucking

cocking

colling

creaking

clocking

coiling

coming

cooking

creeping

cribbing

crossing

culling

curing

cutting

dealing

dicing

digging

dilling

dipping

diving

docking

drilling

dripping

driving

dropping

drugging

drumming

dubbing

ducking

during

earring

easing

eating

eking

falling

feeling

fighting

filing

filling

firing

fitting

fleeting

flitting

flogging

flooring

foiling

footing

freaking

freezing

fucking

galling

gearing

giving

greeting

grieving

healing

hearing

heating

heaving

hilling

hissing

hitting

hogging

hopping

hugging

humming

icing

jarring

jeering

jogging

jutting

keeling

keeping

kicking

killing

knitting

knocking

leaking

leaping

leasing

licking

lighting

liking

living

logging

looking

lopping

loring

loving

meeting

milling

missing

mocking

mooring

mugging

nipping

nutting

offing

peaking

picking

piling

piping

pleasing

plugging

plumbing

popping

priming

puffing

putting

quilling

ribbing

rigging

rising

roaring

rocking

rubbing

scarring

scheming

schilling

screaming

seating

seeling

seeming

seizing

shearing

sheeting

shilling

shipping

shocking

shoring

sighting

sitting

sizing

skilling

skimming

sleeping

slighting

slitting

slotting

sneaking

sneezing

sniffing

snoring

soaring

sobbing

sopping

speaking

squeezing

stalling

stealing

steering

sticking

stocking

stopping

streaming

striking

stripping

striving

strutting

stuffing

sucking

sweeping

sweeting

swimming

talking

teaming

teeming

thrilling

ticking

tipping

topping

tossing

tricking

trilling

trimming

tripping

trucking

veering

viking

walking

walling

wapping

weaving

weeping

wheeling

whipping

whiting

whopping

willing

wiring

writing

yachting

horehound

arrant

bitching

bleaching

blushing

crushing

permits

brand-new

breeching

brownouts

fishing

friendly

grinders

grindle

gushing

mermaids

nothing

pitching

brindle

brushing

dishing

errant

flushing

frontal

grandeur

grandly

granted

hornet

lodging

parent

judging

preaching

pushing

grindstone

stitching

touching

witching

turndown

wormwood

washing

switching

wishing

teaching

seeing

peeing

being

forehands

grandchild

hamstring

wellspring

corinth

brander

brownout

brunette

granite

grinder

hermit

mermaid

torrents

turn-out

tyrants

warrants

forehand

brunettes

cornet

courant

durant

garnet

greenwood

grenades

hermits

termites

torrent

tyrant

warrant

offspring

hornets

grantor

truant

grenade

termite

tranter

ornate

bromides

permute

doormats

formats

bromide

printer

doormat

format

gourmets

promotes

printers

gourmet

promote

grantors

primates

drumhead

cremate

primate

3 syllable words

arriving

journeying

arranging

astounding

compounding

confounding

dumbfounding

commanding

pronouncing

railroading

scaffolding

corundum

myrmidon

verandas

veranda

arresting

battening

blundering

correcting

deadening

deafening

fastening

forgiving

happening

laundering

leavening

lessening

maddening

pondering

reckoning

rendering

surpassing

surviving

threatening

thundering

undoing

undying

wandering

challenging

warehousing

scavenging

annoying

canoeing

caressing

ironing

murmuring

narrowing

powdering

surveying

toweling

myrmidons

wrongdoing

cowering

flowering

glowering

souring

towering

according

ascending

bundling

conceding

counseling

dampening

darkening

descending

downsizing

endearing

erupting

foreboding

regarding

nourishing

fondling

nerve-racking

recording

shortening

surprising

underling

persisting

gardening

pardoning

hardening

abiding

aligning

annealing

baffling

ballooning

beholding

cackling

centering

channeling

concurring

conveying

cradling

crusading

curmudgeon

designing

discerning

dividing

divining

ensuing

entering

expanding

freewheeling

galloping

glistening

governing

groundbreaking

leveling

lightening

listening

meddling

ongoing

opening

opining

outgoing

outlying

outstanding

paneling

peddling

preceding

presiding

proceeding

quarreling

quickening

raveling

reasoning

seasoning

settling

sickening

softening

stiffening

sweetening

tabling

thickening

well-being

mellowing

sojourning

carrying

attracting

echoing

accenting

abducting

shadowing

churchgoing

belonging

backsliding

handwriting

quarantine

perplexing

dialing

hairdressing

varying

vanishing

unyielding

impending

cushioning

yellowing

harvesting

dairying

damaging

winnowing

forecasting

landholding

strengthening

ravishing

anything

enduring

conjuring

guaranteed

guarantees

guaranties

unbending

tormenting

housekeeping

housewarming

lactating

misleading

reclining

relapsing

campaigning

concerning

confiding

connecting

forwarding

gambling

revolting

revolving

baronet

crocheting

consoling

currently

consuming

dissolving

guarantee

approving

dressmaking

emptying

dissenting

enticing

guaranty

dwindling

admiring

backbiting

blackmailing

carpeting

curmudgeons

declining

degrading

equating

erecting

exceeding

oncoming

parceling

parentage

patrolling

trembling

unfailing

unfeeling

kidnapping

outfitting

outpouring

scrambling

succeeding

invading

lamenting

marketing

typewriting

unwilling

surrenders

unwitting

uprising

parental

contracting

distracting

imprinting

interesting

layering

languishing

lowering

landscaping

carjacking

appalling

appealing

adoring

alerting

asserting

bustling

cycling

diverting

marshaling

blossoming

crippling

delighting

deserving

juggling

mottling

muscling

opposing

piddling

profiling

profiting

promising

provoking

relieving

reversing

reviving

matchmaking

retiring

assuming

becoming

befitting

beginning

beguiling

believing

bottling

bubbling

colouring

doubling

drizzling

emitting

locating

middling

modeling

reducing

repeating

polluting

riveting

scribbling

seducing

sizzling

ticketing

visiting

whitening

vomiting

traversing

approaching

blanketing

brainwashing

engaging

everything

quarantines

brandenburg

surrender

urinate

bermudas

beseeching

besieging

brandywine

broadcasting

conforming

baronets

finishing

confusing

guarantor

machining

marinates

polishing

rejoicing

consulting

convincing

disgusting

dissembling

enclosing

exhausting

exulting

granduncle

improving

shipbuilding

shortcoming

unsparing

adjoining

parenthood

diverging

contacting

enlisting

exacting

painstaking

warranties

excepting

battering

bettering

bickering

billowing

bullying

chattering

coloring

copying

covering

doddering

flattering

diapering

enchanting

favoring

flavoring

following

forthcoming

furniture

glimmering

jockeying

laboring

lettering

motoring

neighboring

neutering

offering

papering

peppering

pickering

pitying

scattering

seagoing

shimmering

smattering

soldering

stuttering

suffering

tailoring

tapering

watering

affecting

amusing

accusing

aspiring

bloodletting

bloodsucking

bookkeeping

brandishes

composing

comforting

commuting

decreasing

defusing

disguising

dissecting

conserving

easterling

exciting

imposing

laurentian

trumpeting

tumbling

inviting

life-giving

fahrenheit

inserting

infighting

resisting

sleepwalking

incoming

misgiving

rumbling

bullfighting

bumbling

networking

observing

mumbling

badgering

eavesdropping

granduncles

transporting

bermuda

butchering

heartbreaking

coronet

feathering

marinate

frenetic

issuing

mothering

paranoid

durante

gathering

grandiose

maronite

measuring

pyramid

serenade

wagering

warranty

withering

conflicting

weathering

unthinking

thanksgiving

unflinching

bungling

bushwhacking

refreshing

tinkling

converging

guarantors

obliging

twinkling

blustering

debating

highflying

pilfering

prevailing

amazing

blistering

ordering

lawmaking

factoring

agreeing

besetting

detailing

faltering

lumbering

plastering

whispering

tempering

afflicting

completing

distressing

complaining

childbearing

engraving

existing

frustrating

hardworking

imploring

increasing

inspiring

engrossing

expiring

installing

reflecting

investing

insulting

respecting

shoplifting

constricting

conquering

coronets

fingering

formative

lingering

normative

soldiering

pyramids

tinkering

turntable

variants

alarming

buffeting

carnation

complying

departing

despairing

disarming

exploring

good-looking

grandfather

grandmother

mistaking

offsetting

typesetting

upsetting

grandnephew

armada

granddaughter

ironwood

granados

granitic

primitive

traumatic

variant

turntables

expelling

carnations

absorbing

grandfathers

grandmothers

importing

misspelling

alluring

dramatist

granddaughters

grandnephews

maturing

assuring

tornadoes

tornados

granado

permeate

coherent

prenatal

marinade

permeates

tornado

cremation

hermitage

marinades

ornately

formation

formations

orient

promotion

harmattan

promotions

trinity

dramatize

premature

promoters

promoter

4 syllable words

never-ending

merchandising

patronizing

agonizing

detonating

laminating

fascinating

overpowering

understanding

persevering

corresponding

edifying

gratifying

overarching

parachuting

pioneering

everlasting

circulating

aggravating

overwhelming

paramedic

admonishing

hesitating

pyramidal

domineering

awakening

delegating

diagnosing

dominating

irritating

overbearing

overcoming

underlying

overlapping

overrating

overruling

vacillating

fireproofing

overhauling

paramedics

oceangoing

centralizing

energizing

discouraging

agitating

liberating

moderating

operating

notifying

barometer

overlying

reentering

separating

realizing

underpinning

activating

advertising

undertaking

underwriting

waterproofing

palpitating

mountaineering

maximizing

disappointing

embarrassing

emphasizing

interlocking

entertaining

encircling

devastating

aromatic

speechifying

conditioning

annotating

appetizing

babysitting

partitioning

coronation

developing

disappearing

astonishing

disabling

fingerprinting

fluctuating

mitigating

nonrecurring

occupying

oscillating

overflowing

inheriting

suffocating

unassuming

unavailing

barometers

condescending

calculating

executing

permeated

enterprising

intersecting

encouraging

petitioning

disheartening

captivating

disapproving

enlightening

examining

interviewing

penetrating

permutation

unremitting

denigrating

unbelieving

notwithstanding

unbecoming

parameter

serenity

disparaging

engineering

disengaging

legislating

armadillo

dramatizes

undulating

parentheses

unrelenting

bicycling

complicating

encompassing

inquiring

armadillos

coriander

grandiloquent

parameters

barbecuing

coexisting

enveloping

dispiriting

distributing

inhibiting

oriental

oriented

disconcerting

integrating

bewildering

obviating

tarantula

dormitories

formidable

formidably

orientals

registering

grandmotherly

dromedary

grandfatherly

tarantulas

coherently

corinthian

implicating

dramatically

dormitory

corinthians

perimeter

distinguishing

perimeters

grammatical

premeditate

permutations

reorient

chromatograms

dramaturgy

chromatogram

Words that rhyme with the word surrounding

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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