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

aching

aging

acting

ailing

airing

angling

align

aligned

aligns

alkanes

arming

asking

arching

awning

backing

bagging

baiting

beijing

baking

barring

banding

balsam

banking

batting

banging

bathing

basting

beading

beaming

bearing

beating

bedding

being

belgian

belgians

calming

belting

bidding

biding

billing

biting

birthing

bitching

binding

blacken

blackens

blackmail

blaring

bleeping

blessing

bleaching

blending

blessings

blinding

blacksmith

bleeding

blocking

blueing

blasting

blowgun

bluing

blowguns

blossom

blossoms

blushing

bonding

bouncing

bounding

boxing

boarding

bracing

brewing

braiding

braving

breaking

breathing

breeching

breasting

branching

breeding

briefing

brimming

brushing

bucking

buckling

budding

building

bulging

burping

bunting

burning

butting

buying

doing

belling

caning

bending

camping

docking

calkin

casing

catching

carling

carping

carving

casting

ceiling

chewing

chafing

chasing

chilling

chipping

chirping

chanting

charming

chopping

churning

cleaning

clearing

climbing

clanging

classman

claxon

classmate

classmates

clipping

clocking

clogging

clucking

cocking

codding

diving

colling

cologne

coming

cooing

cooking

couching

coursing

cracking

coupling

crackling

costing

creaking

craving

creeping

cribbing

crashing

cresting

culling

crushing

crying

cuddling

cunning

curing

curling

cutting

damning

daring

daunting

dashing

darling

dealing

dancing

dipping

derring

dicing

digging

dilling

dining

dishing

calkins

dragging

drafting

drawing

draining

dressing

drilling

dripping

driving

drinking

dropping

drugging

drumming

drying

dubbing

ducking

duckling

dumpling

during

dwelling

earning

earring

dyeing

dying

earthling

eating

eking

edging

ending

erring

etching

evening

fading

failing

falling

faulting

facing

feeding

feeling

fehling

falcon

farming

fainting

faulcon

falcons

feigning

fighting

fetching

farthing

filing

filling

fencing

fielding

fining

finding

fitting

greening

greeting

firing

fishing

flaring

fleeting

flashing

fledgling

fleming

flexion

flitting

flogging

flooding

flushing

flying

forcing

footing

forging

forming

founding

framing

foundling

franking

fraying

freaking

frosting

flaming

frying

fucking

gadding

funding

gaming

gassing

gearing

getting

ginning

girding

gilding

giving

glaring

glancing

flagman

golfing

grading

glinting

grating

grafting

grappling

grasping

grayling

fulsome

grieving

fixing

grinding

grounding

flagging

groundling

gunning

having

handling

heading

hanging

harping

hatching

hamstring

healing

hearing

heating

heaving

herring

hiding

hilling

hissing

heckling

helping

hitting

hoarding

horning

hounding

hopping

hugging

hurting

humming

hunting

hurling

icing

jarring

jailing

lawing

inkling

jeering

inning

jerking

keeling

keeping

kenning

jetting

jutting

kicking

killing

jogging

judging

jumping

knitting

kipling

knocking

kindling

keelson

kelson

lading

lagging

lapping

laughing

leading

lamping

landing

learning

lashing

leaking

launching

latching

lasting

leaping

leasing

laying

leaning

legging

lemming

licking

lighting

liking

lending

lifting

lightning

lining

listing

living

longing

looking

lopping

loving

madding

lodging

lumping

lying

mailing

lunching

making

gushing

malting

malkin

maligned

mapping

matching

marking

marching

matting

meaning

meeting

milling

missing

merging

melting

mincing

minding

mining

milken

milkens

milkman

mocking

morning

morphing

mooring

mounting

mourning

mowing

mugging

napping

nagging

nanking

nestling

netting

nodding

nursing

nipping

nutting

nothing

piling

pining

piercing

offspring

panning

ousting

panting

pacing

packing

padding

pairing

paging

painting

paring

passing

paving

peaking

paying

parking

parting

patching

peeing

pegging

pelting

petting

pending

picking

serving

pimping

pinching

pitching

seeming

piping

plating

pleading

playing

plaything

planting

planking

pleasant

plaisance

placement

plasma

plodding

plugging

plumbing

pleasants

pointing

pouncing

pounding

popping

praying

preaching

pressing

priming

pudding

puffing

prying

printing

pumping

quaking

purging

pushing

putting

quilling

racing

racking

raking

raging

quilting

rafting

railing

rambling

reading

raving

placements

riding

rigging

ribbing

resting

ringing

rocking

rifling

rounding

rubbing

romping

running

sacking

sagging

sailing

salting

saving

scaling

scarring

scheming

saying

sapling

scalping

salesman

schilling

scraping

screwing

screaming

screening

seating

scorching

scratching

searching

scrimping

seedling

seeing

seeling

setting

shading

shaving

shearing

shedding

sheeting

shelling

shilling

shining

sheathing

shafting

sharking

shelving

shifting

malign

shipping

shirting

shredding

shuffling

shunting

shrinking

shocking

sighting

shoestring

sibling

siding

sighing

signing

sitting

silken

sneaking

skimming

skirting

skilling

slapping

slating

sledding

sleeping

sliding

slanting

slighting

slitting

slouching

slotting

smacking

smelling

slogans

slackens

smelting

smoothing

slogan

snapping

snarling

slacken

singing

sniffing

sobbing

sinking

something

soothing

sounding

sporting

sopping

sparing

speaking

spelling

sperling

spending

spanking

sparkling

spinning

sparling

springing

sprinkling

spurling

stacking

stating

staving

stealing

steering

sterling

staging

stamping

standing

sticking

stinging

starling

starting

stirring

squinting

stinking

stitching

stocking

stopping

storming

straining

strapping

streaming

straddling

stretching

striking

stripping

striving

strutting

stuffing

stripling

stunning

sucking

suckling

suing

swearing

swaying

sweeping

sweating

sweeting

swelling

swimming

switching

tailing

tacking

tackling

tamping

tanning

talcum

tasting

taunting

teaching

teaming

teeming

telling

teething

tempting

testing

tipping

thrilling

ticking

tiding

thrashing

thrusting

tilting

thinking

thumping

tithing

trying

tracing

trading

trailing

touching

trusting

training

tricking

trilling

trimming

tripping

trucking

trifling

taking

turning

twining

tying

twisting

warming

topping

warning

warping

wearing

vaulting

veering

veiling

viking

waning

vesting

wapping

warling

wading

waiting

waking

vying

vulcan

vulcans

weaving

wanting

webbing

wedding

washing

wasting

weakling

weeding

weeping

whacking

whaling

wheeling

whipping

weighing

westling

wellspring

well-known

welcome

welcomes

whirling

whiting

whopping

whistling

willing

winning

wiring

whitling

wielding

wilding

wholesome

wincing

winding

wording

working

wishing

witching

wrecking

writing

wrestling

wringing

yachting

yearling

yearning

yelling

yielding

3 syllable words

accusing

abounding

according

abiding

absorbing

abducting

accenting

adoring

admiring

affecting

afflicting

agreeing

adjoining

amusing

amazing

annoying

alarming

alerting

alignment

alchemist

alignments

aligning

alchemy

alluring

allusion

allusions

allegiance

annealing

alaskan

alaskans

appalling

belonging

anything

arriving

approving

arresting

arranging

ascending

aspiring

asserting

assuming

astounding

assuring

backbiting

attracting

backsliding

badgering

baffling

ballooning

balkanize

balcony

balconies

approaching

battering

battening

beholding

becoming

befitting

beginning

beguiling

appealing

believing

beseeching

billowing

bickering

blackmailing

blistering

blanketing

bloodletting

bloodsucking

blossoming

blundering

blustering

bettering

bologna

besetting

bottling

brainwashing

broadcasting

bubbling

buffeting

besieging

bookkeeping

bullying

butchering

bushwhacking

bustling

cackling

bullfighting

bumbling

bundling

bungling

calcium

canoeing

carousing

carrying

carpeting

carjacking

centering

chattering

channeling

challenging

childbearing

churchgoing

caressing

coelacanth

collusion

collegian

collision

collegians

collisions

coloring

colouring

commuting

comforting

commanding

complaining

completing

composing

complying

compounding

concurring

collagen

conquering

conceding

conforming

confusing

confounding

conjuring

confiding

connecting

conflicting

conserving

consoling

consuming

conveying

converging

consulting

contacting

contracting

constricting

convincing

concerning

copying

correcting

cowering

covering

counseling

cradling

crocheting

crippling

crusading

dairying

cycling

cushioning

damaging

campaigning

darkening

deadening

deafening

defusing

debating

declining

decreasing

degrading

dampening

delighting

delusion

delusions

deserving

designing

dialing

departing

descending

despairing

detailing

diapering

diligent

diligence

discerning

disarming

disguising

dissecting

disgusting

dissembling

dissolving

dissenting

distracting

diverging

diverting

dividing

divining

doddering

distressing

downsizing

doubling

drizzling

dressmaking

dulciana

dumbfounding

easterling

echoing

dwindling

eavesdropping

emitting

emptying

eloquence

eloquent

enchanting

enclosing

endearing

engaging

enduring

engraving

engrossing

ensuing

enlisting

entering

enticing

equating

erecting

erupting

elison

everything

exciting

exacting

excepting

existing

expelling

expanding

expiring

exploring

exulting

factoring

falconers

faltering

favoring

feathering

fastening

falconet

falconry

falconets

falconer

exceeding

fingering

finishing

exhausting

flattering

flavoring

flowering

following

foreboding

forbidding

fondling

forecasting

forwarding

forgiving

forthcoming

freewheeling

frustrating

galloping

gambling

gardening

gathering

glaucoma

glowering

glimmering

glistening

good-looking

glockenspiel

governing

fluxional

glassmaker

groundbreaking

halcyon

hairdressing

halogen

elegant

handwriting

happening

hardworking

hardening

harvesting

heartbreaking

highflying

helicon

helicons

housekeeping

housewarming

importing

imposing

improving

illusion

infighting

impending

imprinting

imploring

incoming

increasing

inserting

interesting

inviting

ironing

issuing

jockeying

journeying

juggling

illusions

kidnapping

laboring

lactating

landholding

lamenting

landscaping

languishing

layering

laundering

lawmaking

inspiring

leavening

installing

lettering

lessening

leveling

lightening

life-giving

lingering

insulting

listening

invading

locating

lumbering

dulcimer

investing

machining

maddening

malaysian

yellowing

malaysians

malignant

marketing

marshaling

matchmaking

maturing

measuring

mellowing

meddling

middling

misgiving

misleading

misspelling

mistaking

modeling

motoring

mothering

mottling

narrowing

murmuring

muscling

mumbling

neighboring

nerve-racking

neutering

networking

nourishing

obliging

moleskin

observing

ongoing

offsetting

oncoming

opening

offering

ordering

outgoing

outfitting

outlying

outpouring

outstanding

paneling

painstaking

papering

opining

patrolling

peddling

parceling

pelican

peppering

pervading

persisting

perplexing

pelicans

phlegmatic

pickering

pardoning

piddling

pilfering

pitying

plastering

pleasantly

polluting

polishing

policeman

pliocene

polygon

reflecting

pleasantries

powdering

presiding

preceding

prevailing

profiling

provoking

pronouncing

proceeding

profiting

promising

quarreling

railroading

quickening

raveling

rejoicing

ravishing

refreshing

pleasantry

reasoning

reducing

recording

reckoning

reclining

regarding

relieving

relapsing

religion

religions

malcontent

resisting

rendering

repeating

retiring

reversing

respecting

reviving

revolting

riveting

revolving

rumbling

scattering

scaffolding

scavenging

saleswoman

seagoing

seasoning

seducing

pondering

scribbling

scrambling

realign

realism

settling

shimmering

shipbuilding

shortcoming

shortening

sickening

shoplifting

silicon

sizzling

sleepwalking

smattering

sojourning

soldiering

softening

soldering

souring

stiffening

strengthening

stuttering

succeeding

suffering

surprising

surpassing

surrounding

surviving

surveying

sweetening

tabling

tailoring

talisman

tempering

thanksgiving

thickening

threatening

thundering

ticketing

tinkering

tinkling

toweling

towering

tormenting

traversing

transporting

trembling

trumpeting

typewriting

twinkling

unthinking

unwilling

unwitting

uprising

vanishing

unfailing

upsetting

unfeeling

unsparing

unyielding

unflinching

varying

visiting

undying

volcanic

volcanoes

volcanos

volcano

vomiting

wagering

wandering

tumbling

warehousing

typesetting

unbending

watering

weathering

underling

well-being

whispering

whitening

undoing

tapering

winnowing

withering

wrongdoing

shadowing

malcontents

4 syllable words

advertising

aggravating

admonishing

agitating

agonizing

activating

alexander

alexanders

algonquian

alexandrine

alexandrines

alleghany

annotating

alchemically

awakening

babysitting

astonishing

barbecuing

appetizing

bewildering

bicycling

bolognese

calculating

centralizing

circulating

coalescence

coexisting

colloquium

colosseum

complicating

conditioning

condescending

coliseum

delegating

delusional

denigrating

diagnosing

detonating

developing

devastating

diligently

disabling

disappointing

disappearing

disapproving

discouraging

dispiriting

disengaging

disheartening

disparaging

disconcerting

distinguishing

corresponding

captivating

dominating

distributing

domineering

edifying

dualism

fireproofing

dualisms

emphasizing

elysium

embarrassing

eloquently

encircling

energizing

encouraging

engineering

enlightening

encompassing

enterprising

entertaining

everlasting

enveloping

examining

fascinating

executing

fingerprinting

fluctuating

dulcinea

elegantly

gratifying

hallucinate

hallucinates

hesitating

illusionist

illusionists

inhibiting

inquiring

interlocking

interviewing

intersecting

irritating

implicating

laminating

inheriting

legislating

liberating

integrating

malignancy

malignancies

maximizing

merchandising

mitigating

mountaineering

never-ending

nihilism

moderating

notifying

nonrecurring

notwithstanding

oceangoing

oscillating

overbearing

overcoming

overflowing

overarching

overhauling

overlapping

overlying

overpowering

overrating

overruling

overwhelming

palpitating

parachuting

patronizing

partitioning

pelagian

petitioning

penetrating

persevering

phylogeny

pelagians

operating

obviating

occupying

pioneering

plasmodium

plasmodia

realizing

polygamy

reentering

polygonal

registering

polygyny

religionist

separating

speechifying

suffocating

theologians

understanding

unassuming

unavailing

unbecoming

unbelieving

underlying

underpinning

undertaking

unremitting

unrelenting

vacillating

volcanically

undulating

waterproofing

underwriting

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Words that rhyme with the word closing

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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