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

caning

draining

feigning

straining

training

waning

canings

fainting

painting

aching

ailing

baiting

baking

blazing

bracing

braiding

braving

breaking

burning

casing

chafing

chasing

churning

cleaning

craving

dining

earning

facing

fading

failing

fining

flaming

framing

gaming

glazing

grading

grating

grayling

grazing

greening

jailing

kenning

lading

leaning

learning

lining

mailing

making

meaning

mining

pacing

panning

paving

phasing

phrasing

pining

plating

quaking

racing

railing

raising

raking

raving

sailing

saving

scaling

scraping

screening

shading

shaving

shining

signing

slating

stating

staving

tailing

taking

tanning

tracing

trading

trailing

turning

twining

veiling

wading

waiting

waking

whaling

yearning

fraying

laying

paying

playing

praying

saying

swaying

weighing

aging

banging

bathing

beijing

clanging

hanging

paging

plaything

raging

staging

banding

basting

bending

binding

blending

blinding

chanting

dancing

ending

evening

fencing

finding

glancing

grinding

landing

leanings

lending

lightning

linings

meanings

minding

panting

pending

planting

pointing

slanting

spending

standing

tasting

wasting

winding

airing

awning

backing

bagging

batting

beading

beaming

bearing

beating

bedding

belling

biding

biting

blaring

bleeding

bleeping

blessing

boiling

boning

breeding

briefing

broiling

browning

burping

ceiling

chirping

climbing

clowning

coiling

cracking

creaking

creeping

crooning

cunning

curling

damning

daring

dawning

dealing

derring

dicing

diving

dragging

dressing

driving

dwelling

easing

eating

eking

erring

feeding

feeling

fehling

fighting

filing

firing

flagging

flaring

fleeting

fleming

foiling

freaking

freezing

gadding

gassing

getting

ginning

girding

glaring

greeting

grieving

gunning

having

heading

healing

hearing

heating

heaving

herring

hiding

hurling

hurting

icing

inning

jeering

jerking

jetting

keeling

keeping

lagging

lapping

laughing

leading

leaking

leaping

leasing

legging

lemming

lighting

liking

loaning

madding

mapping

matting

meeting

nagging

napping

netting

nursing

packing

padding

pairing

paring

passing

peaking

pegging

petting

piling

piping

pleading

pleasing

pressing

priming

pruning

racking

reading

riding

rising

running

sacking

sagging

scheming

screaming

seating

seeling

seeming

seizing

serving

setting

shedding

sheeting

shelling

shirting

shredding

siding

sighting

sizing

skirting

slapping

sledding

sleeping

sliding

slighting

smacking

smelling

snapping

sneaking

sneezing

sparing

speaking

spelling

sperling

spinning

spurling

squeezing

stacking

stealing

sterling

strapping

streaming

striking

striving

stunning

swearing

sweating

sweeping

sweeting

swelling

swooning

tacking

teaming

teeming

telling

tiding

tuning

viking

voiding

wearing

weaving

webbing

wedding

weeding

weeping

whacking

wheeling

whirling

whiting

winning

wiring

wording

working

wrecking

writing

yearling

yelling

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

banking

branching

franking

nanking

planking

spanking

being

buying

crying

drying

dyeing

dying

flying

frying

lying

peeing

prying

seeing

sighing

stirring

trying

tying

vying

birthing

bleaching

breathing

breeching

catching

crashing

dashing

edging

etching

fetching

flashing

hatching

lashing

latching

longing

matching

merging

patching

preaching

purging

ringing

scratching

searching

sheathing

singing

springing

stinging

stretching

teaching

teething

thrashing

tithing

wringing

handling

bonding

belting

bunting

camping

cresting

fielding

funding

heckling

helping

horning

hounding

hunting

lemmings

pounding

printing

rafting

rifling

rounding

resting

asking

daunting

acting

crackling

mincing

blasting

morning

melting

casting

founding

innings

lamping

grafting

grappling

grasping

lasting

mounting

pouncing

bouncing

bounding

breasting

drafting

glinting

grounding

mourning

pelting

runnings

tamping

angling

testing

wanting

seedling

smelting

warning

shafting

shelving

vesting

weakling

wrestling

yielding

sapling

scalping

shunting

sounding

squinting

stamping

straddling

tackling

taunting

trifling

wielding

wilding

wincing

winnings

barring

bidding

billing

blocking

blooming

boating

bolling

booming

booting

boozing

boring

bowling

brawling

brimming

broking

brooding

browsing

bruting

bucking

budding

butting

calling

calming

caulking

chilling

chipping

choking

chopping

clearing

clipping

cloaking

clocking

clogging

closing

clouding

clucking

coating

cocking

codding

colling

combing

coming

cooking

cooling

coping

cribbing

crossing

culling

curing

cutting

digging

dilling

dipping

docking

doting

doubting

drilling

dripping

dropping

drugging

drumming

dubbing

ducking

dueling

during

earring

falling

filling

fitting

flitting

floating

flogging

flooding

flooring

foaming

footing

fruiting

fucking

fuming

galling

gearing

giving

gloaming

grooming

grouping

grouting

hilling

hissing

hitting

hogging

holing

homing

hopping

housing

hugging

humming

jarring

jogging

joking

jutting

kicking

killing

knitting

knocking

licking

living

loading

logging

looking

looming

looping

lopping

loring

losing

loving

milling

missing

mocking

mooring

moving

mugging

musing

muting

nipping

nodding

nosing

nutting

offing

oozing

outing

picking

plodding

plugging

plumbing

poking

poling

polling

pooling

popping

pouting

prowling

pudding

puffing

putting

quilling

ribbing

rigging

roaring

rocking

rolling

roofing

rousing

roving

rubbing

ruling

scarring

schilling

schooling

shearing

shilling

shipping

shocking

shooting

shoring

shrouding

sitting

skilling

skimming

slitting

sloping

slotting

smoking

sniffing

snoring

soaking

soaring

sobbing

sopping

stalling

steering

sticking

stocking

stooping

stopping

stowing

stripping

stroking

strutting

stuffing

sucking

suiting

swimming

talking

thrilling

ticking

tipping

tooling

topping

tossing

tricking

trilling

trimming

tripping

trucking

tubing

veering

voting

walking

walling

wapping

whipping

whooping

whopping

willing

yachting

drinking

earthling

fledgling

launching

lunching

pinching

stinking

thinking

sinking

shrinking

bitching

blowing

blueing

bluing

blushing

bowing

brewing

brushing

canines

cannons

canons

caymans

chewing

clothing

coaching

cooing

couching

crowing

crushing

dishing

doing

drawing

fishing

flowing

flushing

foundling

glowing

going

groundling

growing

gushing

judging

kindling

knowing

lawing

loathing

lodging

lowing

mowing

nestling

nothing

owing

penance

pitching

pushing

rambling

screwing

sewing

shamans

showing

slouching

smoothing

soothing

stitching

suing

switching

tempting

throwing

touching

washing

westling

wishing

witching

sprinkling

inkling

arming

boarding

boasting

bolting

boxing

buckling

building

carling

carping

carving

charming

coasting

coaxing

comings

costing

coupling

coursing

cuddling

darling

duckling

farming

faulting

fixing

folding

forcing

forming

frosting

gilding

golding

golfing

harping

hoarding

holding

hosting

jumping

kipling

lifting

listing

lumping

malting

marking

molting

morphing

moulding

ousting

parking

parting

piercing

pimping

posting

pumping

quilting

roasting

romping

salting

scolding

scrimping

sharking

shifting

shuffling

sibling

snarling

sparling

sporting

starling

starting

storming

stripling

suckling

thrusting

thumping

tilting

toasting

trusting

twisting

vaulting

warling

warming

warping

whistling

whitling

hamstring

wellspring

arching

bulging

canyons

forging

farthing

marching

kenyans

scorching

something

shoestring

sparkling

dumpling

enhance

cummins

unhinge

enhanced

offspring

onions

unions

amongst

announce

domains

phonemes

remains

finance

announced

commence

gammons

demeans

demons

denounce

famines

immense

lemans

lemons

linens

quinones

renounce

romance

seamans

minions

communes

bemoans

commons

humans

omens

romans

summons

yeomans

3 syllable words

arriving

favoring

flavoring

ironing

journeying

laboring

neighboring

papering

tailoring

tapering

arranging

wagering

campaigning

divining

ensuing

entering

leavening

lessening

paneling

pervading

lawmaking

centering

channeling

lightening

prevailing

reasoning

reckoning

rendering

surrounding

surviving

sweetening

tabling

threatening

opining

happening

locating

amazing

governing

maddening

debating

designing

cradling

deadening

deafening

aligning

battening

crusading

detailing

discerning

fastening

seasoning

whitening

brainwashing

sojourning

annoying

battering

buffeting

adjoining

bettering

canoeing

caressing

carousing

carrying

chattering

dairying

dialing

diapering

echoing

flattering

lettering

mellowing

murmuring

narrowing

peppering

scattering

seagoing

shadowing

anything

varying

machining

smattering

surveying

vanishing

winnowing

yellowing

complaining

painstaking

admiring

ascending

backbiting

badgering

blackmailing

commanding

concerning

cowering

crocheting

dampening

declining

degrading

descending

dissenting

dressmaking

endearing

enticing

equating

feathering

flowering

gathering

glowering

invading

lactating

lamenting

lowering

meaningful

measuring

mistaking

nourishing

railroading

reclining

souring

surprising

towering

unfailing

weathering

blundering

cackling

colouring

conveying

delighting

blanketing

concurring

cycling

deserving

factoring

forbidding

forgiving

galloping

glistening

highflying

leveling

listening

reviving

seemingly

settling

sickening

softening

everything

freewheeling

meddling

stiffening

thickening

challenging

engaging

surpassing

tempering

annealing

appealing

arresting

baffling

ballooning

diverting

dividing

laundering

plastering

pondering

preceding

presiding

proceeding

profiling

quickening

matchmaking

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alerting

asserting

beginning

beguiling

believing

besetting

correcting

ongoing

opening

peddling

raveling

relieving

repeating

retiring

reversing

thundering

traversing

undoing

undying

wandering

scavenging

well-being

accenting

engraving

enlisting

backsliding

enclosing

enduring

frustrating

handwriting

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tormenting

belonging

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besieging

churchgoing

conjuring

conquering

cushioning

damaging

diverging

fingering

finishing

lingering

ravishing

rejoicing

shamanism

tinkering

wrongdoing

enchanting

bickering

billowing

bullying

coloring

copying

covering

following

glimmering

doddering

jockeying

neutering

motoring

offering

pickering

pitying

shimmering

stuttering

suffering

toweling

powdering

soldering

watering

abounding

accusing

affecting

amusing

aspiring

bloodletting

bookkeeping

bullfighting

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easterling

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erupting

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fondling

forwarding

gambling

gardening

hardening

housekeeping

incoming

infighting

inserting

inviting

kidnapping

life-giving

misleading

nerve-racking

networking

observing

offsetting

oncoming

pardoning

persisting

pronouncing

relapsing

revolting

revolving

scaffolding

scrambling

shortening

sleepwalking

succeeding

trembling

typesetting

typewriting

underling

unfeeling

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unwitting

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issuing

outstanding

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expanding

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mothering

languishing

heartbreaking

transporting

tenancy

withering

bungling

bushwhacking

carjacking

converging

leningrad

obliging

refreshing

shamanists

tinkling

twinkling

warehousing

assuming

appalling

becoming

befitting

blistering

lumbering

middling

blossoming

blustering

crippling

emitting

faltering

juggling

modeling

mottling

muscling

ordering

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seducing

sizzling

ticketing

visiting

piddling

pilfering

scribbling

vomiting

whispering

agreeing

bubbling

bustling

drizzling

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opposing

quarreling

provoking

outlying

landholding

adoring

bottling

promising

thanksgiving

alluring

profiting

riveting

abducting

astounding

attracting

broadcasting

childbearing

completing

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conforming

confounding

confusing

consulting

contacting

convincing

dissembling

distressing

dumbfounding

engrossing

exacting

excepting

expelling

expiring

forecasting

hairdressing

hardworking

increasing

inspiring

installing

insulting

investing

misspelling

perplexing

reflecting

respecting

unbending

unsparing

unyielding

leniency

polishing

soldiering

assuring

maturing

reunions

romances

knowingly

according

alarming

approving

bloodsucking

bumbling

carpeting

commingle

complying

composing

departing

dimension

disarming

dissolving

enhancer

imprinting

foreboding

good-looking

imposing

marketing

mumbling

outpouring

misgiving

unthinking

housewarming

outfitting

parceling

recording

tumbling

conflicting

contracting

rumbling

eavesdropping

resisting

regarding

distracting

trumpeting

interesting

patrolling

anions

annoyance

approaching

beholding

demonic

dominick

dominique

dominos

enemas

enemies

ghanaians

marshaling

mnemonic

phonemic

unflinching

imploring

constricting

absorbing

enhances

exhausting

importing

existing

improving

afflicting

diminish

dimensioned

dimensions

disgusting

exulting

harvesting

shipbuilding

shoplifting

shortcoming

announces

commences

unionists

animist

denounces

finances

financier

humanist

mnemonics

commencement

renounces

forthcoming

exploring

communist

humanists

animists

financiers

unionist

enhancement

bananas

bonanza

financials

announcer

demonize

kimonos

nominees

announcement

communists

enhancements

announcers

romanesque

unanswered

immensely

announcements

financial

immunized

cinemas

dominoes

humanize

minimize

vehemence

womanize

minimized

humankind

demonstrates

demonstrate

4 syllable words

awakening

liberating

pioneering

separating

moderating

operating

reentering

entertaining

enlightening

patronizing

detonating

diagnosing

disabling

agonizing

annotating

suffocating

delegating

babysitting

dominating

unavailing

vacillating

appetizing

overrating

fascinating

irritating

never-ending

hesitating

oscillating

laminating

mitigating

obviating

agitating

encouraging

energizing

edifying

gratifying

overlying

realizing

activating

captivating

advertising

aggravating

circulating

denigrating

emphasizing

penetrating

undertaking

encircling

maximizing

underpinning

underwriting

devastating

disappointing

examining

interviewing

palpitating

leninism

speechifying

admonishing

disengaging

engineering

fluctuating

legislating

merchandising

undulating

bicycling

developing

domineering

fireproofing

inquiring

nonrecurring

occupying

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overcoming

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overlapping

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overruling

underlying

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encompassing

enterprising

executing

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unrelenting

discouraging

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overarching

overhauling

parachuting

petitioning

registering

reminiscence

reminiscent

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embarrassing

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interlocking

mountaineering

notifying

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waterproofing

dynamically

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disparaging

dynamism

peninsula

inheriting

peninsular

inhibiting

animism

partitioning

annoyances

corresponding

condescending

intersecting

disconcerting

notwithstanding

bewildering

disappearing

manumission

communism

dominicans

unionism

disheartening

distributing

understanding

dimensional

dispiriting

fingerprinting

coexisting

disapproving

communicates

inimical

commensurate

dominican

humanism

humanizes

diminishment

demonstrated

diminishes

luminescence

onomastic

humanistic

luminescent

demonstration

unencumber

demonstrations

onomastics

distinguishing

demonstrable

canonical

demonstrative

financially

dehumanize

nomenclature

womanizer

demonstrably

demonstrators

enunciate

minimizes

demonstrator

emancipates

communicate

emancipate

6 syllable words

Words that rhyme with the word waning

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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

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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
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Different Types of Rhymes
  • Mascline rhymes: have a stressed syllable
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