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

aching

acting

aging

ailing

angling

airing

asking

bending

basting

banding

backing

bagging

banking

banging

baiting

baking

bathing

batting

bearing

beading

beaming

beating

beijing

bedding

being

belling

boiling

bolling

binding

biding

billing

bidding

biting

blasting

blaring

bitching

blazing

bleaching

blinding

blending

bleeding

bleeping

blessing

blooming

blushing

boasting

bolting

boating

blowing

blueing

bluing

bouncing

bounding

birthing

boning

bucking

booming

bowling

branching

bracing

braiding

braving

broiling

breaking

breasting

briefing

brimming

browning

breathing

brewing

broking

breeching

brooding

browsing

breeding

brushing

bruting

bowing

budding

booting

bulging

building

boozing

bunting

belting

burning

burping

buying

ceiling

camping

butting

caning

casting

caulking

catching

casing

chanting

chilling

chirping

chafing

chasing

chipping

choking

chewing

churning

clanging

cleaning

clearing

climbing

cloaking

closing

clowning

clucking

coasting

coaxing

coating

coaching

coming

clipping

combing

clothing

clouding

coiling

cooing

cooking

cooling

costing

couching

coping

cracking

crossing

crushing

crashing

cresting

craving

creaking

creeping

cribbing

crying

crooning

crowing

cunning

curing

cutting

dancing

daunting

damning

daring

dawning

dashing

dealing

dicing

derring

dilling

digging

dining

dipping

lashing

dishing

drafting

diving

doting

doing

doubting

dragging

drawing

draining

dressing

drilling

driving

drugging

drumming

dubbing

ducking

dueling

during

drinking

dripping

dumpling

drying

dwelling

dyeing

dying

earning

earring

earthling

easing

eating

eking

edging

fining

ending

erring

feeling

evening

fehling

etching

fighting

failing

fainting

facing

fading

faulting

feeding

fencing

feigning

fetching

fielding

finding

filling

fishing

flagging

flaring

fledgling

flashing

fixing

fitting

flaming

fleeting

flitting

floating

flooding

fleming

flying

flushing

flowing

foaming

foiling

folding

footing

founding

foundling

franking

frosting

frying

framing

freaking

freezing

fruiting

fraying

funding

fucking

fuming

gadding

gassing

gearing

gilding

gaming

getting

ginning

girding

glancing

glaring

glinting

glazing

gloaming

glowing

grafting

going

golding

giving

grading

grasping

groundling

grinding

grounding

grayling

grouting

having

gushing

grating

grazing

greening

greeting

grieving

grooming

grouping

growing

gunning

handling

hanging

hiding

hilling

hatching

hamstring

healing

heckling

hearing

herring

helping

heading

heating

heaving

hissing

hitting

holing

homing

hogging

hounding

housing

hosting

hunting

hugging

humming

hurting

icing

inkling

inning

jailing

jerking

jetting

jumping

kipling

jeering

jutting

keeling

killing

judging

kindling

joking

keeping

kenning

kicking

knitting

knowing

ousting

lagging

lading

madding

lamping

landing

lasting

lapping

latching

laughing

launching

lawing

leading

leaking

leaning

leaping

laying

learning

leasing

legging

lemming

lending

lightning

liking

lighting

lifting

licking

lining

logging

listing

lodging

living

loading

loaning

loathing

longing

looking

looming

looping

lumping

loving

losing

lowing

lunching

lying

mailing

malting

mapping

matching

merging

making

matting

mooring

meaning

meeting

melting

minding

milling

mining

mincing

missing

mitral

molting

mounting

moulding

mugging

nagging

moving

mowing

nanking

napping

musing

muting

nestling

nothing

netting

neutral

nipping

nosing

nitriles

neutrals

nursing

nutting

offing

offspring

oozing

outing

passing

patching

packing

padding

pacing

owing

paging

painting

pairing

panting

panning

paring

patrol

piercing

pelting

paving

peaking

pegging

paying

peeing

patrols

pending

petting

petrels

petrol

phasing

phrasing

picking

pimping

pining

piping

pinching

pitching

planking

planting

plugging

plating

pleading

pleasing

playing

plaything

plumbing

poling

pointing

poking

polling

pooling

posting

pouncing

pounding

pouting

priming

pressing

praying

preaching

printing

puffing

pumping

prying

pruning

pudding

purging

pushing

rafting

putting

quaking

quilling

racking

quilting

racing

railing

raging

raising

rambling

raking

raving

reading

resting

ribbing

riding

rising

rigging

ringing

roasting

rolling

holding

rounding

salting

rousing

rubbing

ruling

running

sacking

sagging

sailing

roofing

roving

yielding

saving

scalping

scaling

schilling

schooling

scratching

scolding

scheming

scraping

screaming

screening

saying

searching

seedling

seeling

serving

scrimping

seating

seeming

seizing

setting

shading

seeing

sewing

shelving

shafting

shearing

shelling

shifting

shilling

shining

shirting

shaving

shedding

sheeting

shipping

shoestring

sheathing

shooting

shredding

showing

shrouding

shunting

sibling

slanting

siding

sighting

signing

sizing

skilling

sighing

shrinking

sinking

sitting

skimming

skirting

singing

slapping

slating

smacking

sledding

sliding

slighting

sleeping

smelling

snapping

slouching

smelting

slitting

sloping

smoking

sneaking

smoothing

sneezing

sniffing

soaking

something

sounding

spanking

sparing

spelling

spending

speaking

spinning

sprinkling

squinting

springing

squeezing

stacking

stamping

standing

starlight

starlike

staging

stating

stealing

steering

staving

soothing

sterile

sticking

stirring

strapping

stinking

stooping

stowing

straining

stinging

stitching

streaming

stripping

stripling

striking

striving

stroking

strollers

stroller

strutting

stuffing

stunning

sucking

suiting

stretching

suing

swearing

swelling

screwing

sweating

sweeping

sweeting

swimming

swaying

tamping

tacking

tailing

talking

tanning

tasting

swooning

taking

taunting

switching

telling

teeming

tempting

teething

testing

teaching

thumping

thrilling

thrusting

tiding

thrashing

teaming

ticking

throwing

tilting

tossing

tooling

tithing

touching

toasting

tipping

trailing

tracing

trading

training

tricking

trusting

trilling

trucking

trying

trimming

tripping

turning

tubing

tuning

twining

tying

twisting

thinking

wasting

vaulting

veering

veiling

viking

vesting

weighing

washing

walking

vying

voting

wading

waiting

waking

whacking

waning

weakling

wearing

weaving

webbing

wedding

weeding

weeping

whitling

whistling

whaling

whiting

wilding

wheeling

voiding

westling

whipping

wellspring

whooping

wielding

wincing

willing

winding

winning

wishing

witching

wording

wrestling

working

writing

yearning

wrecking

wringing

yelling

3 syllable words

according

absorbing

abounding

abiding

abducting

accusing

accenting

adoring

admiring

afflicting

affecting

agreeing

alarming

alerting

adjoining

asserting

annealing

annoying

amazing

amusing

anything

appalling

appealing

approving

alluring

approaching

arriving

ascending

aspiring

aligning

arranging

assuring

arresting

attracting

astounding

baffling

assuming

badgering

ballooning

backsliding

battening

battering

backbiting

beguiling

beholding

becoming

befitting

beginning

bumbling

bullying

believing

beseeching

bettering

besetting

besieging

billowing

blackmailing

blanketing

bitterly

blistering

bloodletting

bloodsucking

blossoming

betrayal

bickering

betrayals

blundering

blustering

bookkeeping

bubbling

brainwashing

broadcasting

buffeting

bullfighting

bundling

belonging

bungling

bustling

disarming

cackling

bushwhacking

carpeting

carjacking

canoeing

caressing

campaigning

carousing

caterwaul

centering

channeling

chattering

chitterlings

challenging

childbearing

churchgoing

commanding

butchering

commuting

coloring

comforting

colouring

composing

conquering

complying

complaining

completing

compounding

conceding

concerning

concurring

conjuring

conforming

confounding

confiding

connecting

conflicting

confusing

conserving

contracting

converging

conveying

contacting

consuming

convincing

counseling

correcting

covering

cowering

cradling

crippling

crusading

crocheting

cushioning

cycling

dairying

darkening

damaging

dampening

deadening

deafening

departing

consulting

debating

diapering

declining

decreasing

degrading

delighting

defusing

deserving

detailing

designing

descending

despairing

constricting

consoling

discerning

dissecting

diverting

diverging

disgusting

disguising

dissenting

dissolving

dissembling

distressing

dividing

divining

doubling

distracting

downsizing

dressmaking

drizzling

dumbfounding

dwindling

easterling

eavesdropping

echoing

emitting

emptying

enchanting

enclosing

endearing

engaging

enlisting

enduring

ensuing

entering

engraving

engrossing

equating

erecting

erupting

everything

exacting

exceeding

exciting

excepting

exhausting

expanding

factoring

faltering

exulting

fastening

fatherly

favoring

fatherland

feathering

exploring

featherly

federal

federals

existing

expelling

expiring

fingering

finishing

enticing

flowering

flattering

flavoring

fondling

foreboding

forecasting

forthcoming

forbidding

forgiving

forwarding

freewheeling

frustrating

gardening

gathering

gambling

galloping

glowering

glimmering

glistening

good-looking

governing

hardworking

harvesting

groundbreaking

highflying

hairdressing

guttural

handwriting

heartbreaking

housekeeping

housewarming

happening

hardening

hydraulic

importing

inserting

hydraulics

imploring

imposing

imprinting

impending

improving

increasing

incoming

infighting

inspiring

installing

insulting

invading

interesting

investing

inviting

issuing

juggling

journeying

kidnapping

laboring

landholding

landscaping

languishing

lateral

layering

laundering

lawmaking

leavening

leveling

lightening

lettering

life-giving

lessening

lingering

listening

locating

literal

littoral

lowering

lumbering

lamenting

maddening

machining

marketing

matchmaking

maturing

meddling

mellowing

measuring

middling

misspelling

mistaking

misgiving

misleading

mothering

motoring

motherly

motherland

muscling

narrowing

mumbling

murmuring

neighboring

natural

nerve-racking

neutering

networking

neutralist

nourishing

neutrally

neutralize

observing

offering

obliging

ongoing

offsetting

ordering

opposing

opining

outlying

outfitting

oncoming

outgoing

opening

outpouring

outstanding

patrolling

painstaking

paneling

pardoning

papering

peddling

peppering

pervading

persisting

patrolman

piddling

pickering

perplexing

pilfering

pitying

plastering

polishing

pondering

polluting

powdering

prevailing

preceding

presiding

profiting

proceeding

profiling

promising

pronouncing

provoking

quickening

railroading

raveling

ravishing

reasoning

reckoning

reclining

recording

reducing

regarding

lactating

refreshing

reflecting

rejoicing

relapsing

relieving

rendering

repeating

resisting

respecting

retiring

retrial

reversing

reviving

revolting

revolving

riveting

rumbling

scattering

scrambling

scavenging

seagoing

seasoning

seducing

settling

shadowing

shimmering

shipbuilding

shoplifting

shortening

shortcoming

sizzling

sickening

smattering

sleepwalking

scaffolding

softening

sojourning

soldiering

souring

southerly

sterilize

surveying

stiffening

stuttering

suffering

succeeding

surpassing

surprising

surrounding

strengthening

surviving

scribbling

tabling

tailoring

tapering

unfeeling

sweetening

tempering

unyielding

thundering

threatening

ticketing

tinkering

towering

tormenting

traversing

tinkling

typewriting

transporting

tumbling

trembling

typesetting

trumpeting

twinkling

vanishing

thanksgiving

thickening

undoing

unwilling

unbending

undying

unflinching

unsparing

unfailing

unthinking

uprising

unwitting

upsetting

utterly

visiting

underling

vomiting

wagering

wandering

warehousing

varying

weathering

watering

whitening

whispering

well-being

winnowing

withering

wrongdoing

yellowing

vitriol

weatherly

4 syllable words

agonizing

agitating

activating

advertising

aggravating

admonishing

annotating

appetizing

awakening

barbecuing

astonishing

babysitting

bicycling

bewildering

captivating

centralizing

circulating

calculating

complicating

condescending

conditioning

coexisting

corresponding

developing

detonating

devastating

diagnosing

delegating

denigrating

disabling

disappearing

disappointing

disapproving

disheartening

disparaging

disengaging

dispiriting

distinguishing

dominating

domineering

distributing

edifying

embarrassing

emphasizing

encircling

encompassing

encouraging

energizing

enlightening

entertaining

enveloping

engineering

enterprising

everlasting

examining

ethereal

executing

fascinating

federalist

federalists

federalize

fingerprinting

fireproofing

fluctuating

hesitating

gratifying

implicating

inquiring

inheriting

inhibiting

integrating

interlocking

intersecting

interviewing

irritating

laterally

legislating

literally

liberating

material

materiel

materials

materiels

maximizing

mitigating

moderating

merchandising

mountaineering

naturalists

naturalist

naturally

naturalize

naturalized

neutralizes

neutrality

nonrecurring

never-ending

notifying

neutralism

notwithstanding

obviating

occupying

oceangoing

operating

oscillating

overarching

overcoming

overbearing

overflowing

overlapping

overlying

overruling

overwhelming

overpowering

overrating

parachuting

partitioning

overhauling

palpitating

patronizing

penetrating

petroleum

petitioning

petrology

persevering

pioneering

realizing

registering

reentering

laminating

disconcerting

discouraging

separating

speechifying

sterility

sterilizer

sterilizers

sterilizes

suffocating

vacillating

unavailing

unassuming

underlying

unrelenting

underpinning

undertaking

underwriting

unremitting

undulating

tutorial

tutorials

unbecoming

unbelieving

understanding

waterproofing

vitriolic

7 syllable words

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Words that rhyme with the word starling

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.

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