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

acting

aching

airing

aging

ailing

anchor

angling

anchored

anchors

anker

angers

anger

answer

answers

angry

arching

asking

banding

belting

banking

arming

backing

awning

baking

bagging

baiting

banging

banker

bankers

bankrupt

beijing

bankroll

bankrolls

bathing

bearing

belling

barring

bedding

basting

batting

beating

being

beading

beaming

bencher

benchers

bending

bitching

bidding

blocking

birthing

binding

blaring

biding

blending

biting

billing

blessing

blasting

blinding

blazing

bleaching

bleeding

bleeping

bolting

blooming

blushing

boarding

boasting

boating

boiling

bolling

bonding

blowing

bouncing

bounding

boning

boring

booming

booting

boozing

bouncers

blueing

bluing

bowing

bouncer

bowling

boxing

branching

breasting

breaking

braving

breathing

breeching

brawling

breeding

briefing

brewing

brimming

brushing

broking

browning

broiling

brooding

browsing

bruting

buckling

bucking

budding

building

bulging

bunting

burning

burping

bunkers

bunker

camping

butting

cancers

cancer

calling

calming

buying

caning

cankers

canker

braiding

carling

bracing

carping

censer

casting

casing

caulking

ceiling

censor

censored

censors

censure

chafing

changer

changers

chanting

charming

chilling

chipping

chasing

chewing

chirping

choking

churning

clearing

clanging

cleaning

chopping

climbing

clipping

cloaking

clocking

clogging

clothing

closing

clouding

clowning

coaxing

clucking

coating

codding

coiling

colling

coming

concrete

combing

concern

concerned

concerns

concert

concerts

concord

concourse

coaching

concur

coasting

concurs

cocking

conjures

carving

conscripts

conquer

conscript

conquers

conjure

conserve

consort

cooking

cooling

coping

cooing

costing

couching

crackling

cribbing

cresting

conger

cracking

derring

crashing

coupling

coursing

craving

creaking

crooning

cunning

curing

curling

crushing

cuddling

culling

cutting

crying

crowing

dancing

daring

dashing

darling

daunting

damning

dancers

dangers

dancer

danger

dawning

creeping

dealing

crossing

digging

catching

dilling

dicing

dishing

dipping

docking

diving

doing

edging

doting

draining

drafting

dragging

ducking

doubting

drinking

dressing

drilling

dripping

drugging

drumming

dubbing

driving

dropping

drying

duckling

during

dwelling

dumpling

dunkirk

dunker

dueling

earthling

earning

earring

easing

dyeing

dying

eating

drawing

ending

encrypt

encores

encore

encroach

encrust

eking

enshrine

engrave

engraved

erring

etching

ensure

evening

enshroud

ensures

handling

facing

fading

failing

fainting

fencing

farthing

fehling

farming

faulting

feeding

feeling

feigning

fetching

filling

finding

fielding

fighting

filing

finger

fingered

fining

fingers

flaring

fledgling

fishing

fixing

fitting

fleming

flashing

firing

flagging

flaming

fleeting

flitting

flushing

floating

forcing

flooding

flooring

footing

folding

flogging

foaming

foiling

flowing

flying

forging

forming

funding

franking

foundling

founding

framing

getting

fraying

freaking

freezing

frosting

fucking

gangrene

gaming

gassing

gearing

fruiting

fuming

frying

ganger

galling

gilding

ginger

ginning

gadding

girding

glancing

glaring

glinting

giving

glazing

grading

golding

golfing

gloaming

going

grafting

grappling

glowing

grasping

gunning

groundling

gushing

grating

grinding

grounding

grayling

grazing

greening

greeting

grieving

grooming

grouping

grouting

growing

hamstring

falling

heckling

hanging

hanker

hansard

hangars

hangers

hanger

harping

hatching

heading

having

hearing

healing

heating

hangar

heaving

herring

helping

hilling

hissing

hitting

hoarding

holding

horning

hiding

hunting

hogging

holing

homing

hopping

home-grown

hurling

hosting

hounding

hugging

humming

hunker

housing

hunger

hungry

hurting

icing

incrust

incur

incurs

increase

inkling

inning

inscribe

injured

injures

injure

inquire

inscribes

insert

inserts

inshore

insure

insures

increased

jerking

jetting

jailing

jarring

jeering

mincing

mincers

kenning

judging

kicking

jumping

jutting

keeling

keeping

junkyard

junkyards

killing

kindling

kipling

knickers

knicker

knitting

knocking

knowing

lamping

lading

lagging

lancers

lancer

landing

langridge

lashing

latching

lasting

lapping

laughing

launchers

launcher

launching

learning

lawing

leaning

leading

leaking

leaping

joking

lending

leasing

legging

lemming

licking

laying

lifting

lighting

lightning

liking

living

lodging

listing

lining

loaning

loathing

loading

linger

lingers

logging

long-range

longhorn

longing

looking

loring

loving

looming

looping

lopping

losing

lowing

lunching

longer

longhorns

longshore

lumping

lunchrooms

lunchroom

lying

lunger

making

merging

madding

mailing

malting

mangrove

manger

matching

marking

matting

meaning

melting

mapping

meeting

marching

milling

mincer

jogging

minding

junker

mining

dining

missing

mooring

mocking

molting

monger

mongers

monsieurs

monsieur

morning

morphing

mounting

mourning

moving

pruning

nanking

nagging

napping

musing

muting

nestling

netting

nipping

nursing

nothing

nutting

nodding

nosing

moulding

offspring

offing

oozing

ousting

outing

puffing

mowing

pairing

paging

painting

panting

packing

panning

padding

panzer

paring

patching

mugging

passing

paving

paying

pending

peaking

parking

pelting

pegging

peeing

parting

petting

phasing

owing

pacing

pinching

picking

piercing

pimping

pining

piling

pincher

pinchers

piping

pitching

planking

planting

plaything

pointing

plating

plugging

plumbing

poking

playing

pleading

pleasing

plodding

poling

polling

pouncing

pounding

posting

praying

pooling

popping

pouting

purging

preaching

printing

pressing

priming

pumping

pudding

prying

onshore

raging

prowling

quaking

quilling

racking

pushing

quenchers

quilting

rafting

putting

quencher

racing

railing

raising

raking

rankers

rancor

ranker

rangers

ranger

raving

reading

phrasing

resting

ribbing

rigging

riding

rifling

ringers

shredding

rambling

shunting

ringer

ringing

rinker

shrinking

rounding

romping

rolling

roofing

rousing

roving

rubbing

sanskrit

running

sacking

sapling

sagging

sailing

saving

salting

saying

ruling

scaling

scalping

searching

schilling

scarring

scraping

scolding

scheming

schooling

scorching

scratching

scrimping

screening

screaming

screwing

seedling

rising

seeing

seating

shedding

seeling

serving

setting

sensors

shafting

sensor

shading

sewing

shipping

shanker

sharking

shelving

seeming

shearing

shelling

shilling

shifting

shaving

shining

sheathing

shirting

seizing

shocking

sheeting

shoestring

shoring

shooting

showing

shuffling

roaring

shrouding

sibling

signing

roasting

siding

sighting

sighing

sincere

rocking

singer

sinking

slanting

sitting

skilling

skimming

skirting

sinker

slapping

sizing

slating

sledding

slouching

smelting

smacking

slitting

sleeping

sliding

slighting

sloping

slotting

smasher

smelling

spanking

snapping

snarling

smoothing

spelling

sparkling

spending

snoring

smokers

sniffing

something

sneaking

soaking

soaring

soothing

smoker

snickers

sneezing

snicker

sobbing

sopping

sounding

sparing

sneakers

sparling

smoking

speaking

sneaker

sprinkling

sperling

spinning

sporting

spurling

swelling

swimming

springing

staging

stacking

squeezing

squinting

standing

steering

sterling

sticking

starling

starting

stating

staving

striking

stalling

stinking

stinging

stitching

straining

stripping

stirring

stamping

storming

stocking

stooping

stopping

stowing

straddling

strapping

stretching

stripling

stealing

streaming

striving

stroking

strutting

suckling

stunning

sucking

suing

swearing

stuffing

suiting

swaying

sweating

sweeping

sweeting

thrusting

swinger

singers

singing

swooning

swingers

tackling

tacking

taking

tamping

tailing

talking

tanning

tankard

tasting

taunting

teaching

teething

teaming

teeming

telling

testing

tensors

thinkers

tensor

thinker

thinking

thrashing

tempting

thrilling

ticking

thumping

tilting

tiding

throwing

tinker

tipping

switching

training

touching

tracing

trading

trailing

tooling

topping

tossing

tithing

tricking

trilling

trimming

tripping

trucking

turning

trusting

tuning

twining

trifling

tubing

twisting

trying

uncorks

uncork

tying

toasting

vanguard

vesting

vaulting

veering

veiling

viking

wading

waiting

voting

vying

wanger

waking

waning

wanting

warling

walking

wapping

warming

warping

warning

walling

washing

wasting

voiding

weakling

wearing

weaving

webbing

wellspring

westling

wedding

whipping

whirling

weighing

weeding

weeping

wheeling

whacking

whistling

whitling

whaling

whiting

whooping

wielding

whopping

wilding

wincing

wiring

wishing

wrecking

witching

wording

working

winning

wrestling

willing

yearning

wringing

winker

winger

wingers

writing

yelling

yachting

yearling

winding

yielding

yonkers

yonker

younger

youngers

younker

younkers

3 syllable words

approaching

according

accusing

absorbing

admiring

abiding

accenting

adjoining

abounding

adoring

afflicting

agreeing

alerting

alarming

alluring

affecting

aligning

amazing

amusing

anchorage

anchorman

anything

annealing

ankara

annoying

angora

angoras

appealing

appalling

anagram

angrily

approving

backsliding

asserting

arranging

badgering

arriving

ascending

aspiring

arresting

assuring

assuming

backbiting

astounding

baffling

ballooning

attracting

bankruptcy

bankruptcies

battering

battening

becoming

befitting

beginning

beholding

beguiling

believing

belonging

beseeching

bettering

bickering

besetting

besieging

billowing

bloodsucking

blistering

blanketing

blackmailing

carjacking

bloodletting

blundering

blustering

blossoming

bookkeeping

bottling

carousing

brainwashing

bubbling

broadcasting

buffeting

bundling

bungling

bumbling

bullying

bushwhacking

bustling

butchering

cackling

campaigning

canoeing

bullfighting

caressing

carpeting

carrying

conflicting

centering

censorship

challenging

chancery

channeling

chattering

childbearing

churchgoing

concurring

comforting

coloring

colouring

completing

complaining

commuting

complying

composing

concerning

conceding

concurrence

commanding

compounding

concerted

concertos

concerto

concierge

concourses

concretely

concurrent

conforming

confiding

confounding

confusing

conjuring

congresses

congruence

congregate

congressman

congruent

conscription

connecting

conjurer

conjuror

connoisseur

conquering

connoisseurs

conquerors

conqueror

covering

conserving

constricting

convincing

consulting

consoling

consuming

counseling

contacting

conveying

correcting

contracting

copying

abducting

cowering

crippling

crocheting

cradling

cycling

crusading

cushioning

cynosure

dairying

damaging

deadening

dampening

darkening

deafening

debating

decreasing

declining

defusing

degrading

delighting

deserving

democrats

democrat

denigrate

departing

descending

despairing

designing

detailing

diapering

dialing

discerning

disgusting

disarming

disguising

dissecting

dissenting

dissembling

dissolving

distracting

distressing

diverging

diverting

doddering

dividing

divining

doubling

downsizing

dwindling

easterling

dressmaking

drizzling

dumbfounding

exceeding

eavesdropping

echoing

emigrants

emigrate

emigrant

enclosing

emitting

emigres

emigre

encrypted

emptying

encroaches

enchanting

encroachment

encroachments

encircle

encrusted

enduring

everything

endearing

engrossing

engraving

engravings

engrossment

enlisting

enquire

engraver

excepting

enquirer

enquiry

entering

enticing

ensuing

equating

erecting

erupting

handwriting

exacting

emigrates

factoring

existing

exciting

expiring

exploring

exulting

expanding

expelling

exhausting

favoring

feathering

fastening

fanciers

fancier

fenugreek

fingering

fingerprint

fingerboard

fingerpaint

fingerprints

finishers

fingertip

fingertips

finisher

finishing

flattering

flavoring

forbidding

fondling

forgiving

flowering

following

foreboding

forecasting

hairdressing

faltering

forwarding

forthcoming

gathering

freewheeling

frustrating

galloping

gambling

gardening

gingerly

gingerbread

gingery

governing

glimmering

glowering

good-looking

glistening

groundbreaking

happening

hardening

hardworking

harvesting

haymakers

haymaker

heartbreaking

housekeeping

highflying

housewarming

hungary

hungrily

imprinting

imageries

impending

imagery

imposing

imploring

importing

immigrate

immigrants

immigrant

incoming

improving

incarnate

incorrect

inscription

increases

inserting

increment

incursion

increments

interesting

infighting

incursions

insertion

injuries

injury

inquirer

inquires

inscriptions

inquiry

inserted

installing

insulting

inspiring

insurance

insurgent

insurgents

insurers

insurer

investing

invading

inviting

ironing

issuing

jockeying

journeying

misgiving

juggling

kangaroos

kangaroo

kidnapping

lactating

laboring

lamenting

landholding

languishing

landscaping

laundering

lettering

lawmakers

leavening

lessening

lawmaker

lawmaking

leveling

layering

life-giving

lightening

lingering

locating

listening

lingerie

lumbering

lowering

machining

measuring

marketing

maddening

manager

manicure

manuscript

meddling

managers

manuscripts

maturing

matchmaking

marshaling

mellowing

middling

mimicry

mothering

misleading

mistaking

misspelling

modeling

monikers

monochrome

monographs

monogram

monograph

moniker

motoring

mottling

murmuring

narrowing

neighboring

mumbling

muscling

nerve-racking

networking

nourishing

neutering

observing

obliging

offering

oncoming

ongoing

onagers

opening

offsetting

opining

opposing

ordering

outfitting

outpouring

outgoing

outlying

outstanding

painstaking

paneling

papering

patrolling

peddling

peppering

pardoning

parceling

persisting

perplexing

pervading

reckoning

pickering

pilfering

plastering

piddling

polishing

polluting

pitying

retiring

phonographs

pondering

powdering

preceding

proceeding

presiding

profiling

profiting

promising

pronouncing

prevailing

provoking

phonograph

punisher

quickening

quarreling

railroading

raveling

ranchero

ravishing

reclining

recording

reducing

reasoning

reflecting

refreshing

reinsure

rendering

rejoicing

relapsing

reversing

relieving

resisting

respecting

repeating

regarding

reviving

revolting

revolving

riveting

scaffolding

rumbling

scavenging

scattering

scrambling

scribbling

seagoing

seasoning

seducing

settling

shipbuilding

sensory

shadowing

shimmering

shoplifting

shortcoming

shortening

shoemakers

shoemaker

sickening

sincerely

sizzling

smattering

sleepwalking

sojourning

soldering

soldiering

souring

softening

strengthening

stiffening

succeeding

stuttering

suffering

surveying

surpassing

surrounding

surviving

surprising

sweetening

undying

tailoring

tapering

tangerine

tangerines

tabling

tempering

teenager

teenagers

tinkering

thanksgiving

thickening

threatening

ticketing

thundering

tinkling

transporting

towering

tormenting

toweling

traversing

trembling

twinkling

tumbling

trumpeting

underling

typesetting

uncertain

typewriting

unbending

undoing

unfailing

unfeeling

unflinching

unwilling

unwitting

unsparing

varying

unthinking

unicorn

ungrateful

vanishing

unyielding

uprising

upsetting

vinegar

visiting

wandering

vinegars

warehousing

wagering

vomiting

weathering

watering

whitening

well-being

whispering

withering

winnowing

wrongdoing

yellowing

zingaro

synchronize

4 syllable words

admonishing

activating

advertising

agonizing

aggravating

agitating

appetizing

annotating

answerable

astonishing

babysitting

awakening

barbecuing

bewildering

bicycling

calculating

captivating

centralizing

circulating

conditioning

coexisting

coinsurance

commiserate

complicating

concertina

commiserates

commissaries

commissary

concurrently

condescending

congruity

congressional

congratulate

congregations

congregation

conservative

conservancy

conservators

conservation

conservator

corresponding

denigrating

delegating

democracies

democracy

democratics

democratic

democratize

demographic

demographics

detonating

devastating

developing

diagnosing

disappearing

disengaging

disabling

disappointing

disapproving

disconcerting

disheartening

disparaging

dispiriting

distinguishing

distributing

dominating

examining

domineering

edifying

emissary

encircling

emphasizing

emissaries

emigrations

encompassing

energizing

embarrassing

engineering

enlightening

everlasting

entertaining

enterprising

enveloping

emigration

executing

fingerprinting

fascinating

fireproofing

fluctuating

gratifying

hesitating

hungarians

hungarian

implicating

immigration

inaugurates

inaccurate

inaugurate

inaugural

incarcerates

incarcerate

incarnation

incarnations

incoherent

inheriting

incorrectly

incorporates

incorporate

increasingly

incriminate

incrustation

incremental

incredible

incurable

ingredient

demography

ingredients

ingratiate

intersecting

inhibiting

inquiring

inquiries

insurrection

inscrutable

insurances

insurgency

insurgencies

integrating

interlocking

interviewing

incredibly

irritating

knickerbocker

knickerbockers

laminating

legislating

liberating

manicurist

maximizing

menagerie

merchandising

mimeograph

moderating

mitigating

sincerity

mountaineering

nonrecurring

never-ending

notwithstanding

notifying

obviating

occupying

operating

oceangoing

overbearing

overcoming

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overhauling

overflowing

overlapping

oscillating

overlying

overwhelming

overpowering

overrating

overruling

palpitating

pancreatic

parachuting

patronizing

penetrating

persevering

petitioning

partitioning

pioneering

reentering

realizing

registering

reinsurer

reinsurers

reinsurance

separating

pomegranate

speechifying

suffocating

underpinning

undertaking

unbecoming

unbelieving

unavailing

unassuming

uncertainty

underlying

uncertainly

uncertainties

understanding

underwriting

undulating

unremitting

unrelenting

vacillating

waterproofing

synchronizes

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Words that rhyme with the word encouraging

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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