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

aching

baking

breaking

making

quaking

raking

taking

waking

ailing

backing

baiting

blazing

bracing

braiding

makings

takings

braving

caning

casing

chafing

chasing

cracking

craving

creaking

draining

eking

facing

fading

failing

feigning

flaming

framing

freaking

gaming

glazing

grading

grating

grayling

grazing

jailing

jerking

lading

leaking

liking

mailing

pacing

packing

paving

peaking

phasing

phrasing

plating

racing

racking

railing

raising

raving

sacking

sailing

saving

scaling

scraping

shading

shaving

slating

smacking

sneaking

speaking

stacking

stating

staving

straining

striking

tacking

tailing

tracing

trading

trailing

training

veiling

viking

wading

waiting

waning

whacking

whaling

working

wrecking

fraying

laying

paying

playing

praying

saying

swaying

weighing

aging

bathing

beijing

paging

plaything

raging

staging

acting

asking

basting

casings

crackling

facings

fainting

heckling

painting

tackling

tasting

vikings

wasting

weakling

airing

bagging

batting

beading

beaming

bearing

beating

bedding

belling

biding

biting

blaring

bleeding

bleeping

blessing

blocking

boiling

breeding

briefing

broiling

broking

bucking

burning

burping

caulking

ceiling

chirping

choking

churning

cleaning

climbing

cloaking

clocking

clucking

cocking

coiling

cooking

creeping

curling

damning

daring

dealing

derring

dicing

dining

diving

docking

dragging

dressing

driving

ducking

dwelling

earning

easing

eating

erring

feeding

feeling

fehling

fighting

filing

fining

firing

flagging

flaring

fleeting

fleming

foiling

freezing

fucking

gadding

gassing

getting

girding

glaring

greening

greeting

grieving

having

heading

healing

hearing

heating

heaving

herring

hiding

hurling

hurting

icing

jeering

jetting

joking

keeling

keeping

kenning

kicking

knocking

lagging

lapping

laughing

leading

leaning

leaping

learning

leasing

legging

lemming

licking

lighting

lining

looking

madding

mapping

matting

meaning

meeting

mining

mocking

nagging

napping

netting

nursing

padding

pairing

panning

paring

passing

pegging

petting

picking

piling

pining

piping

pleading

pleasing

poking

pressing

priming

reading

riding

rising

rocking

sagging

scheming

screaming

screening

seating

seeling

seeming

seizing

serving

setting

shedding

sheeting

shelling

shining

shirting

shocking

shredding

siding

sighting

signing

sizing

skirting

slapping

sledding

sleeping

sliding

slighting

smelling

smoking

snapping

sneezing

soaking

sparing

spelling

sperling

spurling

squeezing

stealing

sterling

sticking

stocking

strapping

streaming

striving

stroking

sucking

swearing

sweating

sweeping

sweeting

swelling

talking

tanning

teaming

teeming

telling

ticking

tiding

tricking

trucking

turning

twining

voiding

walking

wearing

weaving

webbing

wedding

weeding

weeping

wheeling

whirling

whiting

wiring

wording

writing

yearling

yearning

yelling

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

banking

franking

nanking

planking

spanking

being

buying

crying

drying

dyeing

dying

flying

frying

lying

peeing

prying

seeing

sighing

stirring

trying

tying

vying

banging

birthing

bleaching

breathing

breeching

catching

clanging

crashing

dashing

edging

etching

fetching

flashing

hanging

hatching

lakins

lashing

latching

matching

merging

patching

preaching

purging

scratching

searching

sheathing

stretching

teaching

teething

thrashing

tithing

banding

belting

bending

binding

blasting

blending

blinding

boxing

breasting

buckling

camping

casting

chanting

coaxing

cresting

dancing

dockings

drafting

duckling

ending

evening

fencing

fielding

finding

fixing

glancing

grafting

grappling

grasping

grinding

helping

lamping

landing

lasting

leggings

lending

lightning

marking

melting

minding

panting

parking

pelting

pending

pickings

planting

pointing

resting

rifling

smelting

rafting

sapling

scalping

seedling

shafting

sharking

shelving

slanting

spending

stamping

standing

straddling

tamping

suckling

testing

vesting

wilding

trifling

wielding

winding

wrestling

yielding

awning

barring

bidding

billing

blooming

boating

bolling

boning

booming

booting

boozing

boring

bowling

brawling

brimming

brooding

browning

browsing

bruting

budding

butting

calling

calming

chilling

chipping

chopping

clearing

clipping

clogging

closing

clouding

clowning

coating

codding

colling

combing

coming

cooling

coping

cribbing

crooning

crossing

culling

cunning

curing

cutting

dawning

digging

dilling

dipping

doting

doubting

drilling

dripping

dropping

drugging

drumming

dubbing

dueling

during

earring

falling

filling

fitting

flitting

floating

flogging

flooding

flooring

foaming

footing

fruiting

fuming

galling

gearing

ginning

giving

gloaming

grooming

grouping

grouting

gunning

hilling

hissing

hitting

hogging

holing

homing

hopping

housing

hugging

humming

inning

jarring

jogging

jutting

killing

knitting

living

loading

loaning

logging

looming

looping

lopping

loring

losing

loving

milling

missing

mooring

moving

mugging

musing

muting

nipping

nodding

nosing

nutting

offing

oozing

outing

plodding

plugging

plumbing

poling

polling

pooling

popping

pouting

prowling

pruning

pudding

puffing

putting

quilling

ribbing

rigging

roaring

rolling

roofing

rousing

roving

rubbing

ruling

running

scarring

schilling

schooling

shearing

shilling

shipping

shooting

shoring

shrouding

sitting

skilling

skimming

slitting

sloping

slotting

sniffing

snoring

soaring

sobbing

sopping

spinning

stalling

steering

stooping

stopping

stowing

stripping

strutting

stuffing

stunning

suiting

swimming

swooning

thrilling

tipping

tooling

topping

tossing

trilling

trimming

tripping

tubing

tuning

veering

voting

walling

wapping

whipping

whooping

whopping

willing

winning

yachting

branching

drinking

earthling

fledgling

lashings

shrinking

sinking

stinking

teachings

thinking

akins

basins

beacons

beckons

bitching

blowing

blueing

bluing

blushing

bowing

brewing

brushing

caissons

chewing

clothing

coaching

cooing

couching

crowing

crushing

deacons

dishing

doing

drawing

fishing

fixings

flowing

flushing

glowing

going

growing

gushing

handling

judging

knowing

lawing

lichens

likens

likins

loathing

lodging

longing

lowing

lykens

masons

mowing

nestling

nothing

owing

pitching

pushing

raisins

rambling

reckons

ringing

screwing

sewing

showing

singing

slouching

smoothing

soothing

sparkling

springing

stinging

stitching

suing

switching

technic

tempting

throwing

touching

washing

weakens

westling

wishing

witching

wringing

angling

inkling

sprinkling

arming

asians

boarding

boasting

bolting

bonding

bouncing

bounding

building

bunting

cajuns

carling

carping

carving

charming

coasting

costing

coupling

coursing

cuddling

darling

daunting

farming

faulting

folding

forcing

forming

founding

frosting

funding

gilding

glinting

golding

golfing

grounding

harping

hoarding

holding

horning

hosting

hounding

housings

hunting

jumping

kipling

lifting

listing

lumping

malting

mincing

molting

morning

morphing

moulding

mounting

mourning

muggings

musings

ousting

parting

piercing

pimping

posting

pouncing

pounding

printing

pumping

quilting

riggings

roasting

romping

rounding

salting

scolding

scrimping

shifting

shuffling

shunting

sibling

snarling

sounding

sparling

sporting

squinting

starling

starting

storming

stripling

taunting

thrusting

thumping

tilting

toasting

trusting

twisting

vaulting

wanting

warling

warming

warning

warping

whistling

whitling

wincing

hamstring

succinct

wellspring

bulging

saxons

gascons

arching

bushings

farthing

forging

launching

lunching

marching

pinching

scorching

sequence

sequins

technics

vaccines

something

groundling

kindling

dumpling

foundling

shoestring

begins

biggins

chickens

essence

icons

lessens

lessons

license

peacenik

picnic

poisons

quickens

raccoons

racemes

reasons

resins

seasons

thickens

tokens

tycoons

vegans

wagons

buckskins

pigskins

fashions

legions

lesions

passions

regions

sessions

offspring

licensed

picnics

maxims

eggnog

mesons

becomes

bygones

cousins

dozens

loosens

cocoons

cosens

nuisance

pecans

toughens

russians

rejoins

cushions

lozenge

oceans

vacuums

legumes

askance

eggnogs

techniques

exhumes

cuisines

possums

pygmies

regains

rhizomes

hogans

technique

exchange

pigeons

visions

missions

against

cognac

dismays

isms

lagoons

resumes

schisms

machines

regimes

mishmash

assumes

magness

3 syllable words

arriving

echoing

favoring

flavoring

laboring

neighboring

papering

tailoring

tapering

wagering

dressmaking

mistaking

factoring

tabling

surviving

locating

pervading

prevailing

reckoning

amazing

cackling

correcting

cradling

crusading

cycling

debating

detailing

matchmaking

bettering

bickering

anything

battering

buffeting

caressing

carousing

carrying

chattering

dairying

arranging

dialing

diapering

flattering

ironing

jockeying

journeying

lettering

mellowing

murmuring

narrowing

peppering

pickering

scattering

seagoing

shadowing

smattering

surveying

varying

yellowing

painstaking

admiring

affecting

backbiting

badgering

blackmailing

campaigning

connecting

cowering

crocheting

degrading

dissecting

endearing

enticing

equating

erecting

feathering

flowering

gathering

glowering

invading

lactating

lowering

measuring

nerve-racking

networking

nourishing

railroading

sleepwalking

souring

surprising

towering

unfailing

vacancy

weathering

brainwashing

bushwhacking

carjacking

engaging

everything

alerting

packinghouse

abiding

aligning

annealing

appealing

arresting

becoming

believing

colouring

concurring

deadening

deserving

designing

diverting

divining

fastening

forbidding

freewheeling

governing

laughingly

leavening

lessening

lightening

maddening

meddling

opining

proceeding

profiling

provoking

groundbreaking

asserting

baffling

battening

beguiling

besetting

centering

channeling

conveying

deafening

delighting

discerning

dividing

ensuing

entering

forgiving

galloping

happening

highflying

jokingly

leveling

paneling

peddling

plastering

preceding

presiding

quickening

raveling

reasoning

relieving

rendering

repeating

retiring

reversing

reviving

seasoning

settling

surpassing

surrounding

heartbreaking

blanketing

sickening

sweetening

tempering

thickening

threatening

ticketing

traversing

well-being

whitening

abducting

accenting

attracting

backsliding

complaining

contacting

enclosing

enduring

engraving

exacting

excepting

frustrating

handwriting

hardworking

perplexing

reflecting

respecting

adjoining

awakens

beseeching

besieging

churchgoing

conquering

damaging

diverging

machining

ravishing

rejoicing

sojourning

tinkering

vacancies

vanishing

doddering

offering

glimmering

annoying

billowing

bullying

canoeing

coloring

copying

covering

following

motoring

neutering

pitying

powdering

shimmering

soldering

stuttering

toweling

watering

suffering

winnowing

according

accusing

amusing

ascending

aspiring

bloodletting

bloodsucking

bookkeeping

bullfighting

comforting

commanding

commuting

conceding

concerning

confiding

conserving

dampening

darkening

declining

decreasing

defusing

descending

despairing

disguising

dissenting

downsizing

easterling

emptying

erupting

exceeding

exciting

forwarding

gambling

good-looking

housekeeping

incoming

infighting

inserting

inviting

kidnapping

lamenting

life-giving

marketing

misleading

observing

offsetting

oncoming

persisting

reclining

recording

relapsing

revolting

revolving

scaffolding

scrambling

succeeding

technician

trembling

typesetting

typewriting

underling

unfeeling

uprising

upsetting

butchering

issuing

mechanize

mothering

contracting

distracting

landscaping

withering

challenging

converging

obliging

refreshing

scavenging

tinkling

twinkling

warehousing

reducing

blossoming

assuming

scribbling

beginning

ballooning

befitting

bottling

riveting

sizzling

blundering

blustering

bubbling

seducing

softening

stiffening

thanksgiving

thundering

adoring

agency

agreeing

alluring

appalling

blistering

bustling

crippling

doubling

drizzling

emitting

faltering

glistening

juggling

laundering

listening

lumbering

middling

modeling

mottling

muscling

ongoing

opening

opposing

ordering

outgoing

outlying

piddling

pilfering

polluting

pondering

profiting

promising

quarreling

reconquer

undoing

undying

visiting

vomiting

wandering

whispering

afflicting

broadcasting

childbearing

completing

confusing

dissembling

distressing

enlisting

expelling

expiring

forecasting

hairdressing

impending

increasing

inspiring

investing

laughingstock

misspelling

shortcoming

strengthening

technicians

tormenting

unbending

unsparing

unyielding

axioms

cushioning

likenesses

assuring

belonging

fingering

finishing

lingering

enchanting

conjuring

maturing

polishing

soldiering

technical

wrongdoing

forthcoming

pachinko

reconcile

exploring

abounding

languishing

agencies

expanding

alarming

approving

carpeting

bumbling

bundling

complying

composing

consoling

consuming

disengage

dissolving

dwindling

hardening

housewarming

eavesdropping

imposing

mumbling

outfitting

outpouring

parceling

tumbling

conflicting

misgiving

outstanding

rumbling

transporting

unthinking

counseling

departing

disarming

fondling

gardening

pardoning

patrolling

resisting

shortening

foreboding

pronouncing

regarding

trumpeting

unwilling

unwitting

agonies

agonize

approaching

beholding

bungling

decency

equinox

laconic

landholding

liaisons

licensee

licenser

mackenzie

marshaling

mechanic

reconciles

sequences

technicals

constricting

compounding

absorbing

astounding

messenger

conforming

disengaged

disgusting

dumbfounding

passenger

shipbuilding

regency

engrossing

shoplifting

licensure

eugenic

confounding

consulting

convincing

exhausting

harvesting

imploring

importing

improving

exulting

existing

installing

insulting

agonist

agonized

bookmakers

eskimos

hygienist

licensees

licenses

maximize

pacemakers

peacemakers

weaknesses

mechanics

imprinting

interesting

eugenics

messengers

passengers

deconstruct

unflinching

reconstruct

agonists

disconnect

disconcert

agnostic

disincline

hygienists

misconceive

pessimists

technocrat

machinists

masonic

pacemaker

peacemaker

bookmaker

diagnose

agnostics

cogency

disconnects

exchanger

magnesia

misconstrue

technocrats

dismissive

dismisses

nuisances

bassoonist

dismissal

machinist

lozenges

exchangers

asuncion

exchanges

misconstrues

businesslike

cognizance

cognizant

dismissals

taskmaster

agincourt

casinos

museums

fijians

issuance

begonias

businesses

dishonest

iguanas

ascension

dissension

businessman

magnesite

pessimist

4 syllable words

awakening

liberating

moderating

operating

separating

undertaking

annotating

agonizing

appetizing

babysitting

detonating

bicycling

delegating

disabling

dominating

irritating

laminating

obviating

overrating

suffocating

fascinating

hesitating

mitigating

oscillating

overcoming

unavailing

vacillating

agitating

encouraging

energizing

edifying

gratifying

overlying

pioneering

realizing

reentering

activating

circulating

advertising

aggravating

captivating

denigrating

devastating

emphasizing

interlocking

interviewing

enlightening

encircling

entertaining

maximizing

patronizing

penetrating

palpitating

underwriting

speechifying

disengaging

fluctuating

legislating

merchandising

undulating

fireproofing

developing

inquiring

overbearing

overflowing

overlapping

overpowering

overruling

persevering

underlying

diagnosing

never-ending

nonrecurring

occupying

calculating

centralizing

complicating

encompassing

enterprising

executing

implicating

integrating

intersecting

overarching

messianic

discouraging

overhauling

registering

parachuting

barbecuing

disappointing

embarrassing

enveloping

everlasting

examining

notifying

overwhelming

unbecoming

unbelieving

underpinning

waterproofing

admonishing

magnesium

paganism

mechanism

technically

disparaging

technicolor

engineering

inheriting

agonizes

reconsider

condescending

unrelenting

disconcerting

unassuming

disappearing

domineering

bewildering

mechanisms

petitioning

maximizes

oceangoing

distributing

understanding

coexisting

disapproving

dispiriting

fingerprinting

mountaineering

unremitting

astonishing

conditioning

oceanic

partitioning

inhibiting

mechanical

mechanically

notwithstanding

pessimism

corresponding

disheartening

disengagement

diagnostic

pessimistic

reconstructive

diagnostics

disconnected

deconstruction

businesswoman

iconoclast

distinguishing

reconstruction

reconstructions

disconnection

diagnoses

issuances

misconception

exchangeable

disenchantment

misconceptions

dishonesty

desensitize

dishonestly

desensitized

Words that rhyme with the word waking

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
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