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

crossing

tossing

backing

awning

bagging

broking

asking

barring

batting

biding

biting

blessing

blasting

blocking

broiling

bracing

blushing

boarding

boasting

boating

boiling

bolling

boning

boring

bouncing

boxing

bowling

brawling

browning

browsing

brushing

dicing

budding

coming

bucking

caulking

butting

calling

casing

casting

calming

chasing

coiling

colling

chopping

codding

coasting

choking

coaxing

clogging

climbing

cloaking

clocking

clouding

clowning

clucking

closing

coating

cocking

combing

costing

coursing

coping

cracking

crashing

crossings

crushing

culling

cunning

cutting

dashing

dawning

dancing

damning

daunting

dining

holing

doting

doubting

diving

docking

drawing

dragging

dressing

driving

dropping

drugging

drumming

dubbing

ducking

fighting

faulting

facing

falling

filing

fining

firing

flooring

flagging

hogging

flashing

floating

gushing

flogging

flooding

forcing

flushing

foaming

foiling

forming

glancing

grasping

gloaming

gassing

frosting

galling

fucking

gadding

grouting

gunning

hoarding

having

hiding

hissing

homing

hopping

horning

hosting

housing

hugging

humming

icing

logging

loring

jarring

jogging

joking

jutting

lawing

lashing

lasting

knocking

lagging

lapping

laughing

leasing

lighting

liking

lining

lopping

loading

loaning

longing

loving

madding

malting

mapping

matting

missing

morning

morphing

mourning

mining

mocking

mugging

nagging

napping

nosing

nodding

nursing

offing

nutting

ousting

outing

pacing

packing

padding

panning

passing

poling

piling

pining

piping

plodding

plugging

plumbing

poking

polling

posting

pouncing

popping

pouting

pressing

priming

putting

prowling

puffing

racing

racking

roaring

rousing

roving

salting

rolling

rubbing

rocking

riding

rising

roasting

running

sacking

sagging

scarring

stalling

sizing

shoring

shining

shocking

shrouding

siding

sighting

signing

sliding

sporting

slapping

slighting

sloping

slotting

smacking

smoking

snapping

snoring

soaring

soaking

sobbing

sopping

stacking

stopping

stocking

storming

stowing

strapping

striving

stroking

strutting

striking

stuffing

stunning

sucking

tacking

talking

tanning

taunting

thrashing

thrusting

tiding

toasting

topping

tracing

trucking

trusting

twining

walking

vaulting

walling

voiding

voting

viking

wapping

washing

warling

warming

warning

warping

whacking

whiting

whopping

wiring

writing

yachting

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

ailing

acting

aching

airing

aging

arching

angling

arcane

argent

arming

argonne

arraign

arson

arsons

banging

banding

baiting

baking

banking

argon

bargain

basting

beading

beaming

bearing

beating

bathing

bedding

beijing

belling

belting

bending

binding

being

bidding

billing

blowing

blooming

bitching

bleaching

blinding

birthing

blaring

blazing

bleeding

bleeping

blending

blueing

bolting

bonding

booming

booting

boozing

bluing

bowing

bounding

bracken

braiding

braving

branching

brazen

brakeman

break-in

breaking

breasting

breeding

briefing

breathing

breeching

brewing

brimming

brackens

brogan

breakneck

broken

bargains

brooding

brougham

bruting

buckling

bulging

building

bunting

burning

burping

buying

camping

caning

carling

carping

carving

catching

chanting

charming

ceiling

chafing

chewing

chilling

chipping

churning

churchman

clanging

clearing

clothing

coaching

clipping

cleaning

chirping

cooking

cooing

cooling

couching

coupling

crackling

craving

creaking

cresting

cribbing

creeping

crescent

crescents

crowing

crying

cuddling

crooning

curing

curling

darling

darken

darkened

daring

dealing

derring

deerskin

burgeon

digging

dilling

dipping

dishing

doing

drafting

draining

dragon

dragons

drachmas

dragnet

dragnets

dressings

drilling

drachma

drying

drinking

dyeing

duckling

dripping

dueling

during

dwelling

dumpling

dying

earning

earring

easing

eating

earthling

edging

ending

erring

etching

evening

fading

failing

fainting

farming

farthing

eking

feeding

fencing

feeling

fehling

feigning

filling

fetching

fielding

finding

fearsome

fishing

fixing

fitting

flaming

flaring

fleeting

fleming

flitting

fledgling

forging

flowing

flying

footing

foreign

folding

foregone

foreseen

foreskin

forgings

founding

getting

ginning

foundling

framing

freaking

freezing

franking

fragments

freshman

frying

gearing

glowing

frogmouth

fruiting

frozen

funding

frequent

fuming

gaming

frogmouths

freshens

georgian

georgians

girding

foursome

giving

gilding

glaring

glazing

fragment

glinting

going

fraying

golding

golfing

grafting

frequents

gorgon

grading

gorgons

grappling

freshen

grinding

grounding

grating

grayling

grazing

greening

greeting

grieving

grooming

grouping

groundling

grecian

growing

gruesome

heading

firkins

hanging

handling

harken

harkens

hatching

hearing

hamstring

harping

hearkens

heating

heaving

herring

heckling

helping

healing

hilling

hitting

holding

horseman

hounding

hunting

hurling

hurting

jetting

inning

inkling

jailing

irksome

jargon

jeering

jerking

jerkins

judging

jumping

knowing

kicking

killing

knitting

kipling

kindling

krishna

kirkman

lading

lamping

landing

latching

launching

lightning

leading

leaking

leaning

leaping

learning

laying

legging

lemming

licking

lending

lifting

listing

living

loathing

lodging

keeling

keeping

lowing

looking

looming

looping

losing

lorgnette

lorgnettes

lying

lumping

kenning

lunching

mailing

making

marching

margin

marchman

margined

marking

margins

matching

markings

marksman

markman

molting

meaning

meeting

merkin

merging

mowing

mincing

minding

milling

mooring

morgan

melting

morgans

moulding

mounting

moving

merchant

musing

muting

merchants

nanking

nothing

netting

nipping

nestling

offspring

oarsman

oozing

organ

organs

sibling

owing

paging

painting

pairing

panting

paring

parchment

parking

parson

parsons

parting

patching

paving

peaking

paying

peeing

pegging

pelting

pending

perkin

percent

percents

perkins

person

persian

persians

skimming

petting

phasing

persons

phrasing

piercing

picking

pimping

pinching

planting

plating

pleading

pleasing

pitching

playing

plaything

pointing

planking

pounding

pooling

precinct

praying

preaching

precincts

presence

present

pregnant

sniffing

pressman

presents

presume

staving

pushing

printing

prism

prisms

prison

prisons

prying

pumping

pruning

prussian

pudding

purging

quaking

quilling

quilting

rafting

railing

raising

raking

raving

reading

raging

rambling

resting

ribbing

rifling

rigging

ringing

romping

rounding

sapling

roofing

ruling

scalping

sailing

saving

saying

scaling

scorching

scratching

scheming

scolding

schilling

schooling

stamping

standing

scraping

screening

seating

seeming

searching

seedling

seeling

seeing

seizing

serving

setting

sergeant

sergeants

sewing

shafting

shading

sharking

shaving

shearing

shedding

shelling

showing

shilling

shipping

shirting

shooting

shoestring

shelving

shifting

shredding

shrinking

shuffling

sheathing

shunting

presumes

sheeting

sighing

sitting

slanting

skirting

scrimping

skilling

slating

sleeping

sinking

sledding

slitting

slouching

smelling

smoothing

smelting

snarling

sneaking

sneezing

singing

sounding

something

soothing

sorghum

sparling

sparing

speaking

spanking

sparkling

spelling

spending

sperling

spinning

spurling

screwing

springing

sprinkling

squeezing

squinting

perchance

staging

starling

starting

screaming

stating

stealing

steering

sterling

sticking

stooping

stinging

stirring

stitching

stinking

straddling

streaming

stripping

stretching

stripling

straining

suckling

suiting

sweating

sweeping

suing

surgeon

surgeons

sweeting

swelling

swimming

swooning

swaying

switching

tackling

swearing

tailing

taking

tamping

tasting

teaming

teeming

telling

teaching

teething

tempting

testing

throwing

thumping

thrilling

thinking

ticking

tipping

tithing

tilting

touching

torsion

tooling

trading

trailing

training

treason

trifling

tricking

trilling

trimming

tripping

trojan

trojans

trying

treasons

tubing

twisting

tuning

turning

tying

urchin

vesting

urchins

veering

veiling

urson

version

versions

virgin

urgent

vying

wading

waiting

waking

virgins

waning

wanting

wasting

wearing

weakling

weaving

webbing

wedding

weeding

weeping

whaling

wheeling

weighing

westling

wellspring

whipping

whirling

whistling

wilding

wincing

winding

whooping

willing

winning

whitling

wielding

wishing

wording

working

wrecking

witching

workings

worsen

worsens

workman

wrestling

wringing

yearling

yearning

yelling

yielding

zircon

zircons

3 syllable words

abiding

accenting

abounding

absorbing

adjoining

according

accusing

adoring

admiring

agreeing

affecting

afflicting

alarming

alerting

aligning

alluring

amazing

amusing

appalling

annoying

annealing

appealing

anything

approving

approaching

backbiting

arcanum

arachnids

archangel

archangels

arachnid

arkansan

arranging

argument

arguments

argonauts

argonaut

arkansans

arraignment

arraignments

arresting

arriving

arsenal

arsenic

arsenals

arrogance

arrogant

arsenide

asserting

ascending

arsonist

aspiring

argentines

assuming

assuring

arsonists

astounding

attracting

argentine

badgering

backsliding

baffling

ballooning

bargainer

bargainers

battering

battening

becoming

belonging

beguiling

beholding

beginning

believing

besetting

beseeching

besieging

befitting

bettering

billowing

bickering

blistering

blackmailing

blanketing

blossoming

bloodletting

bloodsucking

blustering

blundering

bookkeeping

bottling

brainwashing

brazenly

brigantine

broadcasting

bubbling

bullying

bullfighting

bumbling

bundling

bungling

abducting

bustling

butchering

bushwhacking

burgundy

burgundies

cackling

canoeing

campaigning

carousing

carpeting

carrying

caressing

channeling

challenging

centering

chattering

childbearing

carjacking

churchgoing

circumference

circumspect

circumstance

circumcise

circumscribe

circumvent

coercion

circumvents

coloring

colouring

comforting

commanding

commuting

complying

composing

complaining

compounding

conceding

concerning

concurring

conjuring

confiding

conforming

confounding

confusing

conflicting

conserving

connecting

conquering

consoling

consuming

cowering

consulting

conveying

convincing

converging

constricting

contracting

copying

counseling

correcting

corrosion

covering

contacting

cradling

crippling

crocheting

crusading

cross-country

cycling

cushioning

damaging

dairying

dampening

deadening

deafening

debating

darkening

delighting

designing

declining

decreasing

defusing

degrading

departing

crescendo

derision

descending

despairing

deserving

completing

detailing

buffeting

dialing

diapering

landscaping

dissolving

discerning

disguising

dissecting

disgusting

dissembling

dissenting

doddering

diverting

dividing

divining

diverging

distressing

distracting

doubling

downsizing

drizzling

dressmaking

dressmaker

dressmakers

dwindling

dumbfounding

fastening

echoing

easterling

eavesdropping

emitting

enclosing

enchanting

emptying

endearing

enduring

engaging

enticing

engrossing

ensuing

entering

enlisting

equating

erecting

erosion

engraving

erupting

everything

eurasian

exceeding

exciting

excepting

exhausting

exacting

exploring

existing

expiring

faltering

exulting

factoring

expanding

expelling

favoring

feathering

fingering

flattering

flavoring

flowering

forecasting

foreboding

forbidding

following

foreigner

fondling

foreigners

forgiving

forwarding

finishing

forthcoming

freewheeling

fragmented

frequencies

garrison

frequency

frustrating

galloping

gambling

gardening

frequently

gathering

glimmering

glistening

glowering

governing

good-looking

groundbreaking

happening

hardening

handwriting

hardworking

harassment

harvesting

heartbreaking

hairdressing

highflying

horizon

housekeeping

housewarming

horsemanship

horizons

imploring

imposing

hurricanes

importing

impending

incoming

increasing

imprinting

improving

infighting

hurricane

installing

inserting

interesting

inspiring

insulting

ironing

issuing

investing

inviting

invading

irishman

jockeying

juggling

journeying

laundering

kidnapping

laboring

lactating

lamenting

languishing

larceny

landholding

kerosene

layering

leavening

lessening

leveling

lightening

lettering

life-giving

lingering

listening

lawmaking

locating

lowering

lumbering

machining

maddening

marginal

marconi

marshaling

marketing

matchmaking

marksmanship

maturing

measuring

meddling

mercantile

middling

mellowing

misgiving

misleading

mistaking

misspelling

modeling

moroccan

moroccans

merchandise

mothering

motoring

mottling

muscling

mumbling

murmuring

narrowing

neighboring

nourishing

neutering

nerve-racking

norwegian

norwegians

networking

nourishment

offering

opposing

observing

obliging

offsetting

oncoming

ongoing

opening

opining

ordering

organic

organelles

organics

organist

organize

organized

organum

origins

outfitting

outgoing

outlying

disarming

origin

outpouring

outstanding

painstaking

sickening

papering

parceling

paneling

sizzling

parsonage

patrolling

peddling

pardoning

peppering

percentage

perplexing

persisting

personal

persona

personals

parisian

pervading

personnel

piddling

pilfering

plastering

pickering

pitying

phrygian

polishing

powdering

pragmatic

polluting

pondering

preceding

preconceive

pragmatist

pragmatists

prescience

prescient

presences

pregnancies

pregnancy

presenter

presiding

presenters

presently

proceeding

profiling

prevailing

proconsul

progeny

presumptive

profiting

prisoners

prisoner

prognoses

promising

provoking

pronouncing

pursuant

proximal

proximate

quarreling

quickening

pyroxene

railroading

rejoicing

reducing

recording

relapsing

reckoning

reclining

regarding

refreshing

relieving

retiring

repeating

resisting

respecting

reversing

revolting

revolving

reviving

riveting

rendering

raveling

rumbling

ravishing

sarasin

saracens

sarcoma

reasoning

scaffolding

reflecting

scattering

scrambling

scavenging

seasoning

seducing

seagoing

settling

shadowing

paragon

shimmering

shoplifting

shortcoming

shortening

shipbuilding

sleepwalking

smattering

souring

softening

soldering

sojourning

soldiering

scribbling

presentment

stiffening

strengthening

stuttering

succeeding

surpassing

suffering

surrounding

surveying

surprising

surviving

sweetening

tabling

tailoring

tapering

tempering

thanksgiving

thickening

threatening

thundering

ticketing

tinkling

tinkering

tiresome

towering

traversing

toweling

tormenting

transporting

trembling

truism

trumpeting

tumbling

twinkling

typesetting

undoing

undying

typewriting

underling

unbending

upsetting

unsparing

unfailing

unfeeling

unflinching

unthinking

unwilling

unwitting

unyielding

uprising

urgency

vanishing

varying

vomiting

wagering

urgently

visiting

virginal

wandering

presumptions

watering

wearisome

weathering

well-being

whispering

winnowing

whitening

withering

workmanship

worrisome

workmanlike

wrongdoing

warehousing

yellowing

presumption

4 syllable words

activating

agonizing

agitating

advertising

aggravating

admonishing

annotating

appetizing

archenemy

argentina

arizonan

arizonans

arrogantly

astonishing

awakening

babysitting

argentinas

barbecuing

bicycling

bewildering

broken-winded

burgomasters

captivating

carcinogen

calculating

carcinogens

carcinoma

centralizing

charismatic

charismatics

circulating

circumcision

circumspection

circumstances

circumstantial

chrysanthemums

circumvention

chrysanthemum

coexisting

burgomaster

conditioning

condescending

corresponding

delegating

denigrating

complicating

devastating

diagnosing

detonating

developing

disabling

discouraging

dispiriting

disengaging

disparaging

disconcerting

disheartening

dominating

domineering

distributing

distinguishing

draconian

fascinating

edifying

emphasizing

encompassing

energizing

encircling

encouraging

engineering

enlightening

enveloping

enterprising

entertaining

embarrassing

everlasting

examining

executing

fingerprinting

fireproofing

fluctuating

fragmentary

gargantuan

fragmentation

gorgonian

gratifying

heroism

hesitating

disappearing

horizontal

implicating

inquiring

integrating

interlocking

intersecting

irritating

inheriting

interviewing

inhibiting

disappointing

laminating

liberating

legislating

maraschino

marginally

maximizing

marijuana

mercenaries

merchandisers

mitigating

moderating

mercenary

mountaineering

merchandiser

merchandising

never-ending

nonrecurring

notifying

notwithstanding

obviating

occupying

oceangoing

operating

organically

organism

organismic

organisms

organizer

organizers

organizes

oscillating

originate

originals

originates

original

overarching

overbearing

overcoming

overflowing

overhauling

overlapping

overlying

overpowering

overrating

overruling

disapproving

overwhelming

parachuting

palpitating

parisienne

parisians

parsimony

parsonages

partitioning

patronizing

paraguayan

percentages

persevering

parishioner

penetrating

personable

personalize

personalized

personally

parishioners

petitioning

pioneering

personify

preconception

pragmatism

preconceptions

precondition

preignition

preconditions

presentable

personifies

progenitor

prognosticate

prognosticates

proximity

registering

reentering

reorganize

realizing

separating

presentations

presentation

presumably

speechifying

suffocating

unassuming

unavailing

underlying

unbecoming

unbelieving

underpinning

understanding

undertaking

unremitting

unrelenting

undulating

underwriting

vacillating

virginity

waterproofing

zirconium

zirconiums

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Words that rhyme with the word crossing

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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