Rhymes Here is a list of the words that rhyme with the word breaking.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

acting

aging

ailing

airing

asking

backing

baiting

bagging

broking

bathing

basting

batting

beading

beaming

bearing

beating

bedding

beijing

belling

biding

blessing

blazing

bracing

biting

blaring

bleeding

bleeping

blocking

braving

braiding

break-in

boiling

breeding

briefing

broiling

bucking

chasing

burping

caning

choking

casing

burning

caulking

ceiling

chirping

chafing

churning

cleaning

climbing

cloaking

clocking

clucking

cocking

coiling

cracking

craving

cooking

crackling

creaking

creeping

curling

damning

daring

dealing

derring

dicing

dining

draining

diving

docking

dragging

dressing

driving

ducking

dwelling

earning

eking

easing

eating

facing

fading

failing

fainting

feigning

erring

feeding

feeling

fehling

fighting

filing

fining

firing

flagging

flaming

flaring

fleeting

fleming

foiling

herring

framing

freaking

fraying

freezing

hiding

gaming

gadding

fucking

gassing

grieving

getting

glazing

girding

glaring

grading

grating

grayling

grazing

greening

greeting

heckling

heating

heaving

heading

healing

hearing

having

hurling

hurting

icing

jailing

jerking

jetting

joking

kenning

jeering

lading

keeling

keeping

kicking

knocking

lagging

mining

laying

leaking

lapping

laughing

leading

leaning

leaping

learning

leasing

legging

lemming

licking

lighting

liking

lining

merkin

looking

madding

mailing

mapping

matting

meaning

meeting

mocking

nagging

napping

netting

nursing

reading

raving

paging

pacing

packing

painting

padding

pairing

panning

paring

passing

paving

peaking

paying

pegging

perkin

picking

piling

plating

phrasing

petting

phasing

pining

piping

raising

playing

pleading

pleasing

poking

praying

racing

racking

plaything

pressing

priming

railing

raging

riding

rising

rocking

sacking

saving

sagging

sailing

scaling

saying

scheming

scraping

screaming

screening

seating

shading

seeling

seeming

seizing

serving

setting

shaving

shedding

sheeting

shelling

shining

shirting

shocking

shredding

siding

sighting

slating

signing

sizing

skirting

slapping

sledding

sleeping

smacking

sliding

slighting

smelling

smoking

snapping

sneaking

sneezing

soaking

sparing

speaking

spelling

stating

sperling

spurling

staving

squeezing

stacking

staging

stealing

sterling

sticking

straining

stocking

streaming

striking

strapping

striving

stroking

sucking

swaying

tacking

tackling

tailing

tasting

swearing

sweating

sweeping

sweeting

swelling

talking

tanning

teaming

teeming

telling

tracing

ticking

tiding

trading

trailing

training

tricking

trucking

turning

twining

veiling

viking

voiding

wading

waiting

walking

waning

wasting

weakling

wearing

wheeling

whacking

whaling

weighing

weaving

webbing

wedding

weeding

weeping

whirling

whiting

wiring

working

wording

workings

wrecking

writing

yearling

yearning

yelling

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

angling

brooding

arcane

arching

argent

argon

argonne

arraign

arming

arson

arsons

awning

banging

banding

banking

barring

being

belting

bending

bargain

binding

bidding

billing

bolting

blending

birthing

bitching

bleaching

blasting

boxing

bargains

blinding

blooming

blowing

blueing

bluing

boning

blushing

boarding

boating

booting

boozing

boring

bowing

boasting

bonding

bouncing

bounding

bowling

bracken

brackens

brakeman

bolling

branching

breathing

breeching

brazen

breasting

brawling

breakneck

brewing

booming

brimming

brogan

broken

browning

brougham

browsing

brushing

buckling

bruting

budding

building

bulging

chewing

burgeon

chilling

bunting

buying

camping

butting

calling

calming

catching

casting

carling

carping

carving

chopping

chipping

chanting

charming

coming

churchman

clanging

clearing

clogging

clipping

closing

clouding

clowning

clothing

coaching

coasting

coating

coaxing

codding

colling

combing

costing

cooing

crashing

cooling

coping

coupling

coursing

couching

cresting

cribbing

crooning

crescent

crescents

curing

crying

dancing

crowing

crushing

crossings

cuddling

culling

cutting

cunning

dashing

crossing

dawning

darling

daunting

darken

darkened

deerskin

lamping

digging

dilling

dipping

dishing

doting

doing

drafting

doubting

drachma

drachmas

dragon

dragnet

dragnets

dragons

drawing

dressings

drying

drilling

dripping

dropping

drugging

drumming

drinking

dubbing

during

dying

duckling

dueling

dumpling

dyeing

earring

earthling

edging

ending

founding

etching

evening

finding

falling

farming

farthing

faulting

fishing

fetching

fencing

fielding

filling

fixing

firkins

fitting

flashing

flitting

fledgling

floating

flogging

flooding

flooring

flowing

flying

foaming

footing

flushing

folding

forcing

foreign

foregone

fearsome

forming

foreskin

forging

forgings

foreseen

fragment

foundling

franking

frequent

freshen

frequents

freshens

freshman

foursome

frying

fruiting

fuming

galling

funding

frozen

homing

gearing

fragments

glancing

ginning

giving

gloaming

gilding

glinting

glowing

going

golding

golfing

grafting

grappling

gorgon

gorgons

grasping

grecian

georgians

grinding

grouping

hanging

grouting

gunning

growing

gushing

handling

frosting

hamstring

gruesome

hatching

harping

harken

harkens

hearkens

helping

hilling

frogmouth

grooming

hissing

georgian

hitting

grounding

hoarding

hogging

holing

holding

groundling

hopping

horseman

frogmouths

horning

housing

hugging

humming

hounding

hunting

hosting

inning

irksome

jargon

jarring

jerkins

inkling

jogging

jutting

killing

knitting

judging

jumping

kindling

kipling

kirkman

knowing

krishna

landing

lashing

latching

lasting

lawing

launching

lending

lifting

lightning

living

listing

loading

loaning

loathing

looming

looping

lopping

lodging

longing

lorgnette

loring

lying

losing

loving

lowing

lumping

lunching

malting

matching

logging

marching

marchman

margin

margined

margins

marking

markings

markman

marksman

lorgnettes

merging

melting

merchant

merchants

minding

milling

mincing

muting

missing

nanking

mooring

moving

molting

morning

morgan

morgans

mugging

morphing

moulding

mounting

mourning

mowing

musing

nosing

nutting

nipping

nodding

nestling

offing

oozing

nothing

oarsman

offspring

ousting

organ

organs

outing

owing

panting

patching

parking

parchment

parting

parson

parsons

peeing

pelting

pending

percent

percents

perchance

perkins

persian

person

persians

persons

piercing

pimping

pinching

pitching

planking

planting

pointing

plodding

plugging

plumbing

poling

polling

pooling

popping

pouting

posting

pouncing

pounding

preaching

precinct

precincts

pregnant

presence

present

presents

printing

presume

prism

prisms

presumes

prison

prisons

rafting

prowling

prying

pruning

prussian

pudding

puffing

purging

putting

quilling

pushing

pumping

quilting

pressman

rambling

zircons

suiting

resting

ribbing

rifling

rigging

roaring

ringing

roasting

rolling

roofing

romping

rounding

rousing

roving

rubbing

ruling

running

salting

sapling

scalping

scarring

schilling

schooling

scolding

scorching

scratching

searching

screwing

scrimping

seedling

seeing

shafting

sewing

sergeant

sergeants

sharking

sheathing

shelving

shearing

shipping

shifting

shilling

shooting

shoring

shoestring

showing

shrinking

shrouding

shuffling

shunting

sibling

sighing

sitting

sinking

singing

slanting

skilling

skimming

smelting

slitting

sloping

slotting

slouching

smoothing

snarling

sniffing

snoring

spanking

soaring

sobbing

sopping

soothing

sounding

something

sorghum

sparkling

sparling

spending

spinning

springing

sporting

sprinkling

stamping

standing

stalling

squinting

starling

starting

steering

straddling

stinking

stirring

stooping

stopping

stinging

stitching

storming

stowing

stretching

stripping

stripling

strutting

stuffing

stunning

suckling

suing

surgeons

swimming

tamping

switching

teaching

swooning

taunting

teething

thrashing

testing

thinking

tempting

thrilling

throwing

thrusting

thumping

tilting

tipping

tithing

tooling

toasting

topping

tossing

torsion

touching

trifling

trilling

trimming

treason

treasons

tripping

tubing

tuning

surgeon

trojan

trusting

tying

trojans

twisting

urson

trying

urchin

urchins

urgent

vaulting

veering

vesting

virgin

voting

versions

virgins

vying

walling

wapping

wanting

warling

warming

warning

warping

washing

version

whipping

westling

wellspring

whistling

wilding

whooping

wielding

winding

whopping

willing

winning

wishing

whitling

witching

wincing

workman

wrestling

worsen

worsens

wringing

zircon

yielding

yachting

3 syllable words

admiring

abiding

amazing

affecting

abducting

accenting

according

adjoining

accusing

abounding

absorbing

adoring

alerting

aligning

agreeing

alluring

afflicting

alarming

annealing

amusing

anything

appealing

annoying

appalling

approving

approaching

arachnid

arachnids

arcanum

archangel

argentine

argentines

argument

archangels

argonaut

argonauts

arraignment

arkansan

arkansans

arraignments

arranging

arresting

arriving

arrogance

arrogant

arsenal

arsenic

arsenide

arsenals

arsonist

arsonists

ascending

asserting

attracting

aspiring

assuming

assuring

astounding

backbiting

badgering

baffling

backsliding

ballooning

arguments

battering

battening

becoming

beguiling

believing

beginning

belonging

beholding

bettering

besetting

beseeching

befitting

besieging

bloodletting

billowing

bickering

blackmailing

bloodsucking

blistering

blossoming

blanketing

bottling

blundering

blustering

brainwashing

bookkeeping

brazenly

broadcasting

brigantine

bargainer

detailing

bargainers

buffeting

chattering

bullying

bullfighting

bumbling

bundling

bungling

bushwhacking

butchering

bustling

cackling

campaigning

canoeing

burgundy

caressing

carousing

carrying

carjacking

carpeting

centering

burgundies

channeling

challenging

childbearing

churchgoing

circumcise

circumference

circumstance

circumvent

circumvents

circumspect

circumscribe

colouring

coloring

coercion

comforting

bubbling

commanding

complaining

concurring

conceding

confiding

completing

complying

composing

compounding

concerning

confusing

conflicting

connecting

conforming

confounding

conjuring

contacting

conquering

conserving

consoling

consuming

constricting

consulting

contracting

converging

correcting

copying

covering

cowering

corrosion

counseling

cradling

convincing

conveying

commuting

crippling

crescendo

crocheting

crusading

cycling

cushioning

dairying

damaging

dampening

debating

deadening

deafening

darkening

declining

degrading

delighting

deserving

decreasing

defusing

descending

derision

departing

cross-country

designing

engraving

despairing

diapering

dialing

discerning

disarming

enticing

disguising

disgusting

dissecting

dissenting

distracting

dissembling

distressing

dissolving

diverting

diverging

dividing

divining

doddering

doubling

downsizing

dressmaking

dressmaker

dumbfounding

echoing

easterling

eavesdropping

emptying

emitting

endearing

enchanting

dwindling

enclosing

dressmakers

engaging

drizzling

enduring

equating

ensuing

erecting

entering

enlisting

engrossing

eurasian

everything

exacting

excepting

erupting

exceeding

exciting

expelling

expiring

expanding

exploring

exhausting

existing

exulting

factoring

faltering

favoring

fastening

erosion

fingering

finishing

feathering

flavoring

flattering

flowering

forbidding

following

forecasting

fondling

foreboding

foreigner

foreigners

forgiving

forthcoming

forwarding

freewheeling

frequency

frequencies

frequently

galloping

frustrating

gambling

gardening

fragmented

gathering

glimmering

glistening

glowering

good-looking

governing

groundbreaking

handwriting

hairdressing

happening

heartbreaking

hardworking

hardening

harvesting

harassment

highflying

horizon

horizons

garrison

housekeeping

housewarming

hurricane

hurricanes

impending

incoming

imposing

imploring

importing

improving

imprinting

infighting

increasing

inserting

inspiring

invading

insulting

interesting

ironing

inviting

issuing

investing

irishman

jockeying

installing

journeying

kerosene

kidnapping

juggling

laboring

lactating

lamenting

horsemanship

larceny

laundering

lettering

leavening

lessening

leveling

life-giving

lightening

listening

lingering

locating

lowering

maddening

machining

lumbering

marconi

marginal

matchmaking

marketing

marshaling

marksmanship

maturing

measuring

mellowing

meddling

mercantile

merchandise

mistaking

misleading

misspelling

moroccan

moroccans

motoring

mothering

mottling

mumbling

neighboring

middling

modeling

murmuring

narrowing

networking

neutering

languishing

muscling

norwegian

norwegians

nerve-racking

nourishing

observing

obliging

nourishment

offering

oncoming

offsetting

opining

ongoing

opening

opposing

ordering

organic

organelles

organics

organist

origin

organum

organize

organized

origins

outfitting

reckoning

landscaping

outgoing

misgiving

painstaking

paneling

papering

parisian

paragon

parceling

pardoning

parsonage

patrolling

peddling

peppering

percentage

perplexing

pickering

persisting

personal

persona

personals

pervading

personnel

phrygian

piddling

pilfering

pitying

plastering

polishing

polluting

powdering

pondering

pragmatic

pragmatist

pragmatists

preceding

preconceive

pregnancies

pregnancy

prescience

prescient

presenter

presences

presenters

presently

presentment

presiding

prevailing

presumptive

presumption

presumptions

proceeding

profiling

profiting

progeny

proconsul

prisoner

prisoners

prognoses

provoking

promising

pronouncing

proximal

proximate

quickening

quarreling

pyroxene

pursuant

railroading

raveling

outstanding

reasoning

ravishing

outlying

outpouring

reclining

recording

reflecting

refreshing

reducing

relieving

rendering

rejoicing

relapsing

landholding

surpassing

regarding

repeating

retiring

reversing

reviving

respecting

revolting

resisting

revolving

riveting

rumbling

scaffolding

sarasin

scattering

saracens

scavenging

scrambling

seagoing

seasoning

scribbling

seducing

settling

shadowing

shimmering

shoplifting

shortcoming

shortening

shipbuilding

sickening

sizzling

sleepwalking

smattering

souring

sojourning

soldering

softening

soldiering

strengthening

stiffening

stuttering

succeeding

suffering

surprising

unfeeling

surviving

surveying

sweetening

tabling

tailoring

tapering

thickening

threatening

thanksgiving

ticketing

tinkering

tinkling

thundering

tiresome

tormenting

tempering

toweling

towering

traversing

trembling

transporting

surrounding

tumbling

twinkling

truism

trumpeting

typesetting

typewriting

vanishing

underling

unbending

unfailing

undoing

undying

unsparing

uprising

upsetting

unyielding

unthinking

unwilling

unwitting

urgency

urgently

unflinching

varying

visiting

vomiting

virginal

wagering

warehousing

wandering

watering

sarcoma

well-being

whispering

weathering

whitening

withering

winnowing

worrisome

wrongdoing

yellowing

workmanship

wearisome

workmanlike

4 syllable words

activating

admonishing

agonizing

agitating

aggravating

advertising

annotating

appetizing

argentina

argentinas

archenemy

arizonan

arizonans

arrogantly

astonishing

awakening

babysitting

barbecuing

bicycling

bewildering

broken-winded

calculating

captivating

carcinoma

burgomaster

burgomasters

carcinogen

centralizing

circumcision

charismatic

charismatics

carcinogens

circulating

circumvention

circumstances

circumspection

circumstantial

chrysanthemum

coexisting

chrysanthemums

complicating

condescending

conditioning

corresponding

delegating

denigrating

detonating

devastating

disabling

developing

enlightening

diagnosing

discouraging

disappointing

disheartening

disparaging

dispiriting

distinguishing

distributing

dominating

domineering

draconian

disengaging

edifying

embarrassing

emphasizing

encircling

encompassing

encouraging

energizing

engineering

disapproving

entertaining

enterprising

enveloping

disconcerting

disappearing

everlasting

examining

fascinating

executing

fireproofing

fluctuating

fingerprinting

hesitating

fragmentary

fragmentation

gratifying

gorgonian

heroism

intersecting

gargantuan

implicating

inquiring

inheriting

interlocking

irritating

inhibiting

integrating

interviewing

horizontal

laminating

liberating

legislating

maraschino

marginally

marijuana

maximizing

merchandising

mercenary

mercenaries

merchandiser

merchandisers

mitigating

moderating

mountaineering

never-ending

nonrecurring

obviating

occupying

notifying

oceangoing

notwithstanding

operating

organically

organism

organismic

original

oscillating

originate

organizers

organizes

organisms

originals

originates

organizer

overcoming

overlying

overbearing

overflowing

overlapping

overpowering

overhauling

overrating

overruling

overwhelming

palpitating

parachuting

parishioner

parisians

parishioners

parisienne

patronizing

partitioning

parsonages

parsimony

paraguayan

penetrating

percentages

personalize

persevering

personable

personalized

petitioning

personify

personifies

pioneering

personally

pragmatism

precondition

preconditions

preconception

preconceptions

preignition

presentation

presentations

presentable

presumably

progenitor

prognosticates

prognosticate

proximity

realizing

overarching

reentering

registering

separating

speechifying

suffocating

reorganize

unassuming

unavailing

underlying

unbecoming

underwriting

undulating

underpinning

understanding

undertaking

unremitting

vacillating

unbelieving

unrelenting

virginity

waterproofing

zirconium

zirconiums

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Words that rhyme with the word breaking

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

Rhyming Dictionary


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