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

acting

aching

aging

airing

ailing

alarmed

alarm

arming

arching

asking

angling

blending

alarms

blinding

awning

backing

banding

bagging

banging

baiting

baking

ballroom

bearing

ballrooms

banking

barring

batting

basting

beading

bathing

beaming

bedding

beating

belting

belling

bending

bidding

biding

billing

blaring

birthing

binding

blasting

biting

bitching

blazing

bleaching

being

bleeding

bleeping

beijing

blessing

boarding

blushing

blooming

blowing

blueing

bluing

boasting

boating

boiling

bucking

bolting

boring

bonding

bouncing

bolling

boning

booming

booting

boozing

bowing

bowling

bulging

bounding

boxing

branching

braiding

brawling

breasting

brimming

buckling

broiling

braving

breaking

breeding

breathing

breeching

brewing

briefing

brushing

browning

browsing

broking

brooding

bruting

building

bracing

budding

bullhorn

bullhorns

bunting

burning

burping

butting

calling

camping

calming

blocking

buying

caning

carving

carping

charming

carling

casting

caulking

ceiling

catching

casing

chanting

clocking

chafing

chasing

chilling

chirping

churning

chipping

chopping

clipping

chlorine

choking

clanging

clearing

climbing

cleaning

clarence

clearance

cloaking

chewing

clogging

closing

clothing

clouding

clowning

codding

colling

coming

coiling

coasting

coaxing

coating

combing

coaching

farming

faulting

coupling

coursing

clucking

costing

cooking

cooling

couching

coping

crushing

cuddling

cracking

crackling

crashing

craving

creaking

creeping

cresting

cribbing

crossing

crying

crooning

crowing

cunning

curing

curling

cutting

daring

dancing

damning

dashing

drugging

cooing

drumming

darling

daunting

dealing

dawning

derring

dilling

dicing

digging

duckling

dishing

drilling

drafting

diving

docking

doubting

dragging

dressing

doing

draining

drawing

doting

drinking

dripping

driving

dropping

dubbing

dining

drying

ducking

dipping

dueling

during

dwelling

ending

earning

earring

dumpling

earthling

easing

eating

edging

eking

erring

falling

dying

etching

evening

dyeing

facing

fading

failing

fainting

fehling

cocking

farthing

feeling

feeding

feigning

fencing

filing

filling

firing

fielding

fetching

fighting

flaring

finding

fixing

fining

fitting

flagging

fishing

flaming

jerking

mailing

flashing

fledgling

fleming

flitting

flogging

fleeting

floating

flooding

flooring

flushing

forcing

florin

flying

fluorine

florence

folding

foaming

foiling

floren

footing

forming

flowing

forging

funding

fucking

frosting

franking

foundling

fraying

frying

framing

freaking

freezing

fruiting

fuming

gadding

galling

founding

gilding

gaming

gearing

girding

glaring

glancing

glinting

gassing

getting

ginning

giving

glazing

gloaming

golfing

gunning

golding

grafting

grappling

grasping

grading

grating

going

grayling

grazing

grinding

grounding

grouting

groundling

hamstring

gushing

greening

grooming

grouping

growing

greeting

handling

grieving

hanging

harping

heckling

helping

glowing

having

heading

healing

hearing

hatching

horning

heating

heaving

herring

hilling

hiding

hissing

hoarding

holding

hitting

hogging

holing

hopping

homing

hunting

hugging

humming

hurling

hounding

housing

hurting

icing

hosting

inkling

inning

jumping

jarring

jutting

jailing

judging

jeering

jetting

jogging

keeling

joking

keeping

kenning

kicking

killing

logging

kindling

learning

kipling

lamping

landing

knitting

knocking

lagging

lading

knowing

lapping

lasting

laughing

lashing

latching

lawing

laying

launching

leading

leaking

leaning

leaping

lending

legging

lemming

licking

leasing

lifting

lightning

listing

lighting

liking

lining

living

loading

loaning

loathing

lodging

longing

looking

lumping

loring

loving

lunching

lopping

lying

losing

lowing

malting

marking

marching

mapping

matting

matching

making

meaning

milling

melting

merging

mincing

minding

mining

meeting

missing

morning

morphing

mooring

molting

mocking

moulding

mounting

mourning

mugging

nagging

nanking

napping

netting

mowing

musing

muting

nestling

nursing

nothing

nipping

nodding

nosing

nutting

offing

offspring

ousting

oozing

outing

moving

parking

pairing

paring

packing

padding

looping

pacing

owing

panting

panning

parting

passing

patching

pelting

pegging

paying

paving

peaking

peeing

pending

petting

piercing

phasing

phrasing

picking

planting

piling

pimping

pinching

pining

piping

pitching

plugging

plumbing

planking

plodding

playing

pointing

plating

pleading

plaything

pleasing

pouncing

pounding

rafting

poling

polling

pooling

popping

posting

poking

pouting

racking

praying

printing

pressing

priming

pumping

prowling

puffing

pudding

putting

purging

railing

pushing

pruning

quilting

prying

quilling

quaking

racing

preaching

raging

rambling

raising

raking

raving

reading

paging

painting

looming

resting

madding

salting

rocking

roaring

rifling

ribbing

riding

rigging

rising

ringing

roasting

rolling

rubbing

running

romping

rounding

rousing

ruling

sacking

sagging

roofing

roving

sailing

sapling

saving

saying

scalping

scarring

swimming

schilling

swelling

scaling

scorching

scolding

yearling

schooling

scratching

working

scheming

serving

searching

scrimping

seating

screwing

seeling

seeming

seeing

seizing

seedling

setting

sewing

shading

shafting

sharking

shearing

shelving

shelling

shedding

shaving

sheeting

sheathing

shifting

shilling

shirting

shoestring

shining

shipping

shocking

shooting

shoring

shredding

showing

shrinking

shuffling

skimming

shunting

sibling

siding

sighting

signing

sinking

sitting

singing

sighing

skilling

sizing

skirting

shrouding

slanting

smelting

slapping

sledding

sliding

slating

slighting

smelling

sleeping

slitting

snoring

slotting

smacking

slouching

sloping

soaring

scraping

snarling

something

snapping

sniffing

smoking

sneaking

smoothing

sobbing

screening

sneezing

sparing

sounding

spanking

sparkling

sparling

speaking

spelling

soaking

sperling

sporting

spending

spinning

springing

spurling

sprinkling

squinting

squeezing

stirring

stacking

soothing

stalling

starting

steering

sterling

stamping

standing

starling

sopping

stealing

sticking

stinking

striking

stating

staving

stinging

storming

straddling

stocking

stopping

strapping

stitching

stooping

stowing

straining

streaming

stretching

staging

strutting

stuffing

stunning

stripping

striving

stroking

sucking

suckling

swearing

stripling

swaying

sweating

suing

suiting

tacking

tackling

tamping

tailing

thrusting

talking

tanning

sweeping

swooning

taking

wellspring

tasting

taunting

telling

tempting

testing

thinking

teaming

teeming

teaching

teething

thrilling

thrashing

throwing

thumping

tilting

ticking

tiding

tipping

tithing

toasting

trusting

topping

touching

tossing

trailing

tracing

trading

training

trilling

trucking

tricking

trifling

tooling

trimming

tripping

sweeting

trying

tubing

turning

twisting

twining

tying

tuning

vaulting

veering

vesting

veiling

viking

vying

voiding

voting

wading

waiting

waking

walling

warming

warning

warping

walking

wanting

wapping

waning

warling

washing

wasting

weakling

wearing

webbing

weaving

wedding

witching

weeding

weeping

weighing

wishing

whistling

whacking

whirling

whaling

wheeling

whipping

whiting

whitling

wilding

willing

wielding

wincing

winding

whopping

westling

wiring

winning

whooping

wording

wrestling

wrecking

yearning

schoolroom

screaming

writing

wringing

yachting

yelling

switching

yielding

3 syllable words

according

abiding

absorbing

adjoining

abounding

accusing

admiring

accenting

affecting

afflicting

aileron

ailerons

assuring

amusing

approving

alarmist

annealing

aspiring

assuming

annoying

appalling

appealing

anything

approaching

ascending

arresting

arriving

arranging

attracting

astounding

alarmists

badgering

baffling

backsliding

battering

battening

befitting

backbiting

becoming

beginning

beguiling

beholding

bettering

bickering

believing

besetting

belonging

besieging

beseeching

billowing

blackmailing

blanketing

blistering

bloodsucking

blossoming

bottling

bookkeeping

buffeting

bubbling

broadcasting

bullfighting

bullying

brainwashing

bumbling

bundling

bungling

butchering

campaigning

bushwhacking

bustling

cackling

canoeing

caressing

centering

carrying

channeling

carousing

carjacking

challenging

carpeting

chattering

childbearing

churchgoing

chlorinate

clarion

clarendon

clearances

clarinet

commanding

complaining

commuting

connecting

completing

feathering

complying

conforming

conjuring

conquering

composing

conceding

confiding

conflicting

compounding

confounding

confusing

consulting

consuming

contacting

converging

constricting

consoling

contracting

conveying

copying

counseling

correcting

cowering

cradling

crippling

crusading

crocheting

convincing

dairying

cycling

cushioning

damaging

dampening

darkening

delighting

declining

decreasing

degrading

defusing

despairing

departing

descending

designing

detailing

dialing

diapering

entering

disarming

dissembling

disguising

dissecting

dissenting

disgusting

distressing

diverging

dissolving

distracting

deafening

divining

doddering

dividing

downsizing

dressmaking

doubling

drizzling

deadening

factoring

endearing

dumbfounding

easterling

eavesdropping

echoing

emitting

emptying

enchanting

enclosing

equating

engaging

dwindling

ensuing

enduring

engraving

engrossing

enlisting

enticing

erecting

everything

exacting

erupting

excepting

exceeding

exciting

exploring

expiring

exulting

expanding

exhausting

existing

expelling

favoring

fastening

fingering

finishing

flaringly

flattering

flavoring

flowering

following

fondling

florentine

forbidding

foreboding

forgiving

forecasting

forthcoming

forwarding

frustrating

freewheeling

glimmering

gambling

galloping

gathering

gardening

glistening

glowering

good-looking

groundbreaking

hairdressing

handwriting

happening

hardworking

hardening

heartbreaking

harvesting

highflying

housekeeping

housewarming

retiring

imploring

inserting

impending

importing

improving

increasing

imposing

infighting

imprinting

incoming

inspiring

installing

insulting

interesting

ironing

invading

investing

inviting

issuing

juggling

abducting

jockeying

journeying

kidnapping

lamenting

laboring

lactating

locating

landholding

landscaping

laundering

lawmaking

layering

languishing

lettering

leveling

lessening

lightening

lingering

leavening

listening

life-giving

machining

lowering

maddening

matchmaking

marshaling

marketing

maturing

measuring

relapsing

mellowing

misleading

meddling

middling

misgiving

motoring

mottling

mistaking

modeling

misspelling

murmuring

narrowing

neighboring

muscling

mumbling

networking

nerve-racking

nourishing

offering

neutering

obliging

offsetting

outpouring

ongoing

opposing

ordering

opening

outgoing

oncoming

opining

outfitting

outlying

outstanding

painstaking

peppering

paneling

papering

parceling

pardoning

pickering

patrolling

peddling

perplexing

pervading

persisting

recording

piddling

plastering

pitying

powdering

railroading

pondering

polishing

prevailing

proceeding

profiling

profiting

promising

presiding

pronouncing

provoking

preceding

quarreling

quickening

raveling

reducing

ravishing

reasoning

reckoning

reclining

relieving

reflecting

regarding

refreshing

rejoicing

rendering

repeating

resisting

respecting

reviving

riveting

revolving

rumbling

revolting

scaffolding

scattering

scribbling

seasoning

seagoing

seducing

settling

shadowing

shimmering

shoplifting

shipbuilding

shortcoming

shortening

smattering

sizzling

sickening

sleepwalking

soldering

softening

sojourning

soldiering

sweetening

souring

stiffening

strengthening

succeeding

well-being

surveying

surprising

surpassing

surrounding

surviving

tailoring

tabling

tapering

tempering

thickening

thanksgiving

threatening

tinkering

tolerance

ticketing

tinkling

tolerant

tolerants

toweling

towering

trembling

transporting

tormenting

trumpeting

typewriting

tumbling

twinkling

typesetting

unbending

unfailing

undoing

undying

unflinching

unfeeling

unsparing

uprising

unwitting

unyielding

unwilling

unthinking

upsetting

varying

wagering

visiting

vomiting

vanishing

watering

wandering

warehousing

weathering

withering

whispering

whitening

winnowing

scrambling

wrongdoing

yellowing

scavenging

4 syllable words

activating

admonishing

advertising

agitating

aggravating

agonizing

annotating

appetizing

astonishing

awakening

ballerina

ballerinas

barbecuing

bewildering

bicycling

babysitting

calculating

captivating

centralizing

circulating

complicating

condescending

conditioning

corresponding

delegating

delirium

denigrating

detonating

disappearing

devastating

disapproving

developing

diagnosing

disabling

disappointing

disconcerting

discouraging

dispiriting

disengaging

disheartening

disparaging

distinguishing

distributing

dominating

domineering

edifying

emphasizing

encircling

embarrassing

encompassing

encouraging

energizing

enterprising

entertaining

engineering

enveloping

everlasting

examining

enlightening

executing

fascinating

coexisting

fireproofing

fingerprinting

fluctuating

gratifying

hesitating

implicating

inheriting

inhibiting

inquiring

integrating

interlocking

irritating

interviewing

intersecting

laminating

liberating

legislating

maximizing

merchandising

moderating

mitigating

mountaineering

never-ending

nonrecurring

notifying

notwithstanding

oceangoing

obviating

occupying

oscillating

operating

overbearing

overarching

overpowering

overcoming

overflowing

overlapping

overhauling

overlying

overrating

overruling

palpitating

parachuting

partitioning

penetrating

persevering

petitioning

philharmonic

patronizing

pioneering

realizing

overwhelming

reentering

registering

separating

speechifying

suffocating

tellurium

tolerances

unavailing

unbelieving

unassuming

unbecoming

underlying

underwriting

underpinning

undertaking

undulating

unrelenting

understanding

unremitting

vacillating

valerian

waterproofing

6 syllable words

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Words that rhyme with the word colouring

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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