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

airing

acting

aching

aging

ailing

angers

anger

anchored

anchors

anchor

angling

angry

anker

answers

answer

belting

awning

asking

bagging

backing

baiting

baking

banding

banging

banking

barring

arming

bankers

bankrupt

bankroll

bankrolls

basting

bathing

bearing

beading

beaming

beating

bedding

batting

beijing

being

banker

arching

belling

bending

bouncing

bidding

bounding

bencher

benchers

binding

birthing

bitching

biding

billing

blending

blaring

blinding

bleeding

bleeping

blessing

bleaching

blasting

blocking

blushing

blazing

blooming

blowing

blueing

bluing

boarding

branching

boasting

bonding

boning

bolting

boating

boring

boiling

boxing

bolling

booming

booting

boozing

bowling

bouncers

bowing

bouncer

biting

bracing

bulging

braiding

breeding

breathing

breeching

braving

brawling

brimming

breaking

building

breasting

buckling

browning

bucking

budding

brushing

brooding

browsing

bruting

bunker

brewing

briefing

broiling

bunting

bunkers

burning

burping

butting

broking

camping

buying

calling

calming

cancers

cancer

caning

cankers

carling

carping

carving

coaxing

chilling

casing

ceiling

censored

censors

casting

censer

censor

censure

chafing

chipping

catching

chanting

charming

caulking

chasing

changer

clearing

cleaning

clanging

chirping

churning

choking

chopping

climbing

changers

chewing

clipping

clogging

clowning

clucking

coasting

cloaking

clocking

closing

clouding

coating

clothing

coaching

cocking

coiling

concerns

codding

coming

colling

concern

concerned

concert

concrete

concerts

concord

concourse

concur

concurs

conger

combing

coursing

conjures

conjure

crackling

conquers

conscript

conquer

conscripts

conserve

cooking

cooing

cooling

coping

costing

couching

consort

coupling

creaking

cracking

cribbing

creeping

cresting

crooning

crossing

craving

crashing

crowing

crushing

crying

cuddling

cunning

curing

daring

culling

curling

cutting

dancers

dancer

dancing

dangers

danger

daunting

dawning

dealing

darling

dashing

damning

incrust

canker

fingers

derring

digging

dilling

dicing

dipping

dining

dishing

diving

docking

doing

dragging

drafting

draining

doting

doubting

dressing

drawing

dripping

drugging

drumming

driving

dropping

earring

drying

dubbing

dumpling

ducking

during

duckling

dunker

dwelling

dunkirk

dueling

earning

dyeing

dying

drilling

easing

eating

eking

edging

fingered

finger

earthling

ending

encore

encrypt

encrust

encores

encroach

engrave

engraved

fencing

erring

enshrine

enshroud

evening

ensure

etching

ensures

fainting

farming

facing

fading

failing

falling

farthing

feeling

faulting

filling

feeding

fehling

feigning

fielding

fetching

fighting

filing

finding

fitting

fishing

fining

firing

fixing

flitting

flagging

flaring

fledgling

fleeting

fleming

flaming

flashing

flogging

floating

flooding

franking

flooring

flushing

folding

foaming

foiling

flowing

flying

footing

forcing

forming

forging

foundling

founding

framing

freaking

fraying

freezing

frosting

gadding

gearing

funding

gangrene

gilding

fucking

galling

getting

fuming

gaming

gassing

frying

ganger

groundling

ginning

giving

glaring

glancing

girding

ginger

glazing

glinting

greening

golding

golfing

grafting

grappling

gloaming

grading

glowing

going

grasping

grating

grinding

grayling

grazing

greeting

fruiting

grieving

grounding

grooming

grouping

grouting

gunning

growing

gushing

heckling

handling

herring

hanging

harping

hangers

hanker

having

hansard

hatching

hanger

heading

healing

hearing

hilling

hissing

hitting

hamstring

hangars

hungry

helping

heating

heaving

hoarding

hogging

holding

holing

home-grown

hiding

homing

hangar

hugging

hounding

humming

horning

hosting

hopping

housing

hunger

hunker

hunting

hurling

icing

hurting

increase

increased

incur

incurs

monger

injured

injures

injure

inning

inquire

inscribe

inscribes

inserts

insert

inshore

insure

insures

jerking

jeering

jetting

jogging

judging

joking

jumping

kenning

kicking

jarring

junker

jutting

keeling

keeping

junkyards

junkyard

killing

kipling

jailing

knicker

knitting

lagging

lamping

knocking

lading

knowing

lancer

lancers

landing

launching

lasting

lapping

laughing

lashing

latching

launchers

lawing

langridge

launcher

leading

laying

leaning

leaking

leaping

legging

lending

learning

leasing

lemming

licking

linger

lingers

lifting

liking

listing

living

lighting

lining

loading

loaning

longing

logging

lightning

loathing

lodging

long-range

longer

longhorn

longhorns

loring

loving

looming

looping

lopping

losing

lowing

lumping

lunching

lunger

lunchroom

madding

lunchrooms

lying

malting

meaning

mailing

making

mangrove

marking

mapping

matching

marching

matting

manger

melting

meeting

merging

milling

mincing

missing

mongers

mincers

mincer

mining

mooring

mugging

looking

knickers

mocking

nipping

molting

morning

monsieurs

morphing

nanking

mounting

nagging

moulding

mourning

moving

musing

muting

napping

mowing

nestling

monsieur

netting

minding

nodding

nosing

nothing

nutting

offing

offspring

pinchers

longshore

oozing

ousting

outing

painting

pairing

pending

panting

pacing

packing

owing

padding

panning

paging

pegging

panzer

paring

nursing

parking

parting

peeing

peaking

paying

passing

paving

patching

pinching

pelting

piercing

picking

pimping

petting

phasing

phrasing

piling

pincher

pitching

planking

planting

pleading

pleasing

plugging

pining

playing

piping

plating

plaything

plodding

pointing

pouncing

pounding

poking

poling

polling

posting

pouting

preaching

praying

pooling

popping

pressing

priming

printing

quilting

plumbing

pruning

pumping

prowling

prying

pudding

puffing

quilling

putting

purging

pushing

quenchers

quaking

quencher

rafting

racing

racking

raging

railing

raising

raking

rambling

reading

rankers

ranker

raving

rangers

ranger

rancor

onshore

resting

rigging

ribbing

ringer

rifling

riding

ringers

rinker

roaring

roasting

rising

rocking

rolling

running

rounding

rubbing

romping

roofing

rousing

roving

ruling

sacking

sagging

sanskrit

sailing

salting

sapling

saving

scarring

shearing

shifting

scalping

scaling

scheming

schilling

screening

screaming

schooling

scolding

scraping

scratching

scorching

scrimping

screwing

searching

seedling

seating

seeling

seeming

seizing

saying

seeing

sensor

serving

setting

sensors

shading

sewing

shafting

shanker

sharking

shaving

shilling

shelving

shedding

sheeting

shelling

sheathing

shipping

shining

shirting

suckling

shocking

shoestring

shoring

shooting

showing

shredding

shunting

sibling

shuffling

siding

sighing

sincere

sighting

signing

shrouding

singer

singers

sinker

sitting

sizing

skilling

skimming

skirting

slanting

sledding

sleeping

slapping

slating

sliding

slighting

slitting

sloping

slotting

smacking

slouching

tensors

sniffing

smelting

smelling

sneaking

sneezing

smoking

snapping

snicker

smoothing

sneakers

sneaker

smokers

snarling

snickers

snoring

soaring

soaking

spending

something

soothing

sopping

sounding

sparing

spanking

speaking

sparkling

sparling

sobbing

spelling

spinning

sperling

squinting

standing

squeezing

stamping

starling

starting

stalling

staging

stealing

steering

stacking

stating

staving

sterling

sticking

stirring

sporting

stocking

stitching

streaming

stooping

straining

storming

straddling

stopping

stowing

strapping

stretching

stripping

striking

stripling

stunning

spurling

strutting

stuffing

striving

stroking

sucking

tithing

swingers

swimming

swearing

swinger

sweating

sweeping

sweeting

swelling

swaying

switching

swooning

tamping

tanning

tankard

tasting

suing

suiting

thinker

tacking

taunting

teaming

teaching

tackling

teeming

taking

talking

tempting

testing

telling

teething

tensor

thinkers

tailing

thrilling

ticking

thrusting

thumping

tiding

throwing

tilting

tracing

tipping

tinker

touching

tooling

topping

tossing

tricking

trading

training

toasting

trifling

trilling

trimming

tripping

trusting

trailing

trucking

thrashing

twisting

tuning

turning

twining

tubing

trying

tying

wishing

witching

vanguard

veering

vesting

veiling

viking

voiding

walling

uncorks

vaulting

wading

waiting

waking

wanting

wanger

youngers

voting

waning

vying

warling

warming

warning

walking

warping

wapping

whirling

wellspring

westling

wasting

wearing

weaving

webbing

wedding

weeding

weeping

weighing

whacking

wheeling

whipping

whaling

wincing

whistling

whitling

willing

weakling

wielding

wilding

whiting

whooping

whopping

winding

washing

winning

wingers

winker

winger

wiring

wrestling

wording

working

wrecking

younger

yielding

yearling

yearning

yelling

yonkers

writing

yachting

yonker

younkers

younker

uncork

smasher

smoker

3 syllable words

adoring

abiding

absorbing

agreeing

according

accusing

accenting

alerting

adjoining

admiring

affecting

afflicting

alluring

alarming

abounding

aligning

amazing

anything

anchorage

anchorman

angora

anagram

appalling

angoras

annealing

annoying

ankara

angrily

appealing

approving

amusing

approaching

assuring

aspiring

asserting

attracting

badgering

assuming

ascending

arresting

arranging

arriving

astounding

backbiting

backsliding

baffling

ballooning

bankruptcy

bankruptcies

beguiling

battering

battening

becoming

befitting

beginning

incursion

beholding

believing

belonging

abducting

bettering

besieging

besetting

billowing

beseeching

blustering

blackmailing

blanketing

bloodletting

bloodsucking

blossoming

bookkeeping

bottling

brainwashing

bullfighting

broadcasting

bumbling

buffeting

bubbling

bundling

bungling

butchering

bullying

bushwhacking

bustling

cackling

campaigning

canoeing

chattering

caressing

carousing

censorship

challenging

chancery

carpeting

carrying

childbearing

channeling

churchgoing

carjacking

coloring

colouring

concerted

commanding

completing

comforting

concerning

conceding

complaining

commuting

complying

compounding

composing

concerto

concourses

concretely

concierge

concurrence

concurrent

conforming

confiding

confounding

conflicting

concertos

confusing

congresses

congressman

conjuring

conjuror

conjurer

connecting

conserving

conquerors

conscription

conqueror

consoling

consuming

conveying

congregate

consulting

contacting

convincing

contracting

converging

covering

correcting

copying

counseling

constricting

cowering

congruence

crippling

crocheting

crusading

connoisseurs

degrading

cradling

delighting

cushioning

dampening

cycling

cynosure

decreasing

dairying

debating

declining

deadening

deafening

darkening

defusing

damaging

increments

connoisseur

congruent

deserving

departing

descending

designing

denigrate

despairing

detailing

diapering

dialing

discerning

disarming

disguising

disgusting

distressing

dissenting

dissembling

distracting

dividing

dissolving

dissecting

doddering

diverting

diverging

divining

doubling

downsizing

dressmaking

drizzling

dwindling

dumbfounding

emigrants

engaging

emitting

easterling

echoing

eavesdropping

emigrant

exacting

fingerprints

encircle

endearing

enclosing

emptying

encourage

encouraged

encroaches

encrusted

encroachments

encroachment

encrypted

encryption

enduring

enchanting

engraver

feathering

equating

ensuing

engrossment

enticing

erecting

enlisting

enquiry

enquire

enquirer

erupting

everything

existing

exceeding

exhausting

exciting

excepting

expanding

engravings

expelling

expiring

exploring

factoring

faltering

exulting

fanciers

fancier

favoring

fastening

emigrate

emigrates

fenugreek

fingerboard

emigre

fingerpaint

emigres

finishing

finishers

finisher

flattering

flavoring

flowering

forwarding

following

fondling

forgiving

forecasting

foreboding

forthcoming

forbidding

freewheeling

gardening

gathering

galloping

gambling

gingerbread

gingerly

gingery

glistening

glowering

governing

good-looking

frustrating

groundbreaking

hairdressing

handwriting

hardworking

happening

hardening

harvesting

haymakers

haymaker

highflying

heartbreaking

hungary

housewarming

housekeeping

imprinting

immigrant

immigrants

impending

imploring

importing

imposing

improving

imagery

imageries

immigrate

increasing

incoming

hungrily

incorrect

incarnate

increases

increment

democrats

democrat

incursions

zingaro

infighting

injuries

injury

inquires

inquiry

inquirer

inscription

insertion

inserted

inspiring

installing

insulting

insurance

insurers

insurer

inscriptions

insurgent

insurgents

invading

inviting

interesting

investing

ironing

issuing

journeying

jockeying

juggling

kidnapping

kangaroo

kangaroos

laboring

lactating

lamenting

landholding

laundering

languishing

layering

landscaping

lawmaking

leavening

lessening

lettering

leveling

life-giving

lightening

listening

lingerie

locating

nourishing

lowering

lumbering

maturing

maddening

machining

marshaling

marketing

manuscript

manicure

measuring

managers

matchmaking

manuscripts

manager

middling

meddling

mellowing

misgiving

mistaking

misspelling

misleading

modeling

motoring

mimicry

lawmaker

lawmakers

mothering

monikers

murmuring

monogram

monograph

muscling

neutering

mumbling

neighboring

mottling

narrowing

monographs

nerve-racking

networking

moniker

observing

offering

obliging

offsetting

ongoing

opposing

opening

opining

ordering

outgoing

outpouring

outlying

outfitting

outstanding

pitying

monochrome

painstaking

paneling

papering

peddling

pardoning

parceling

patrolling

peppering

piddling

persisting

pervading

perplexing

phonograph

phonographs

plastering

oncoming

polluting

polishing

pondering

presiding

prevailing

powdering

preceding

pronouncing

proceeding

provoking

profiling

quickening

quarreling

punisher

profiting

railroading

promising

onagers

ravishing

raveling

reasoning

reckoning

regarding

refreshing

reflecting

recording

reducing

reclining

ranchero

reinsure

relieving

repeating

relapsing

resisting

respecting

retiring

reversing

reviving

revolting

revolving

riveting

rumbling

scaffolding

scrambling

scribbling

seagoing

seducing

seasoning

sensory

settling

shadowing

scattering

shipbuilding

scavenging

shoplifting

shortening

shortcoming

sickening

sincerely

sizzling

sleepwalking

rejoicing

soldering

sojourning

soldiering

softening

souring

stuttering

stiffening

strengthening

succeeding

shoemaker

suffering

smattering

sweetening

surveying

surrounding

surviving

synchronize

tailoring

tapering

tangerines

tangerine

surprising

tabling

surpassing

tempering

shoemakers

thanksgiving

teenagers

teenager

thickening

ticketing

tinkling

threatening

traversing

tormenting

toweling

towering

trembling

transporting

trumpeting

typewriting

twinkling

tumbling

typesetting

unbending

uncertain

underling

wandering

unfailing

undoing

undying

unfeeling

unflinching

unsparing

ungrateful

upsetting

unicorn

unthinking

unyielding

uprising

unwilling

unwitting

vanishing

varying

vinegars

visiting

vinegar

vomiting

wagering

warehousing

watering

weathering

well-being

whitening

winnowing

wrongdoing

yellowing

4 syllable words

activating

aggravating

agitating

agonizing

admonishing

advertising

annotating

answerable

appetizing

awakening

astonishing

babysitting

barbecuing

bewildering

bicycling

calculating

incriminate

captivating

centralizing

circulating

coexisting

commiserate

commissaries

complicating

commissary

concertina

commiserates

concurrently

condescending

conditioning

congratulate

coinsurance

congressional

congregation

congregations

congruity

conservancy

conservative

conservator

conservation

conservators

corresponding

delegating

democracy

democracies

democratic

denigrating

demography

demographics

developing

devastating

diagnosing

disappearing

detonating

disabling

disappointing

disapproving

disconcerting

discouraging

disengaging

disparaging

dispiriting

disheartening

distinguishing

dominating

distributing

domineering

edifying

emissaries

emissary

encircling

emphasizing

encouraging

encourages

encouragement

encompassing

energizing

engineering

embarrassing

entertaining

enveloping

enterprising

enlightening

everlasting

examining

executing

fascinating

emigration

emigrations

fingerprinting

fireproofing

fluctuating

gratifying

demographic

inaugural

hesitating

inaugurate

hungarians

hungarian

implicating

immigration

inaccurate

inaugurates

incarnation

incarcerate

incarcerates

incorporate

incarnations

incorporates

incorrectly

incoherent

increasingly

incredible

incredibly

incremental

incrustation

incurable

democratics

democratize

inheriting

ingredient

ingredients

inhibiting

inquiring

inquiries

insurgency

insurances

inscrutable

insurgencies

interlocking

interviewing

integrating

intersecting

irritating

insurrection

knickerbocker

laminating

ingratiate

legislating

liberating

knickerbockers

manicurist

maximizing

menagerie

merchandising

mimeograph

mitigating

mountaineering

moderating

nonrecurring

never-ending

notifying

overlying

notwithstanding

oceangoing

obviating

occupying

operating

oscillating

overcoming

overarching

overbearing

overflowing

overlapping

overhauling

overrating

overruling

overwhelming

palpitating

pancreatic

parachuting

patronizing

partitioning

penetrating

persevering

petitioning

pioneering

overpowering

pomegranate

realizing

registering

reinsurance

separating

reinsurer

sincerity

reinsurers

speechifying

suffocating

synchronizes

unassuming

unavailing

uncertainly

unbecoming

unbelieving

underlying

uncertainties

undertaking

underwriting

undulating

unrelenting

unremitting

vacillating

understanding

underpinning

waterproofing

uncertainty

Words that rhyme with the word lingering

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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