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

caning

draining

feigning

straining

training

waning

aching

blazing

aging

airing

ailing

baiting

baking

banging

bathing

beijing

biding

bending

awning

backing

bagging

banding

basting

bedding

belling

binding

blending

batting

beading

beaming

bearing

beating

biting

blaring

bleeding

bleeping

blessing

blinding

bracing

boiling

boning

braiding

braving

breaking

breeding

briefing

broiling

browning

burning

burping

casing

chafing

ceiling

chasing

chanting

churning

cleaning

chirping

climbing

clanging

clowning

coiling

feeding

fining

flaming

fehling

fencing

fighting

filing

finding

firing

flagging

cracking

craving

creaking

creeping

crooning

cunning

curling

damning

dancing

daring

dawning

dealing

derring

dining

dicing

feeling

diving

dragging

dressing

earning

driving

easing

eating

eking

dwelling

facing

fading

ending

evening

erring

failing

fainting

flaring

fleming

foiling

fleeting

seeming

seizing

heaving

framing

fraying

freaking

freezing

gassing

gaming

gadding

glazing

getting

ginning

girding

glancing

glaring

grading

nursing

grating

grayling

grazing

greening

grinding

greeting

grieving

gunning

hanging

having

heading

healing

hearing

heating

kenning

herring

hiding

hurling

hurting

icing

inning

jailing

jeering

jerking

jetting

keeling

keeping

lagging

lading

landing

mapping

lapping

laughing

leaning

learning

laying

leading

leaking

leaping

leasing

legging

lemming

lending

lighting

lightning

lining

liking

loaning

meeting

making

meaning

madding

mailing

matting

mining

minding

nagging

napping

netting

pacing

painting

packing

paging

padding

panning

panting

pairing

paring

passing

paving

phasing

paying

pending

peaking

pegging

phrasing

petting

piling

pining

piping

plating

playing

plaything

planting

pointing

pleading

pleasing

pressing

praying

priming

pruning

quaking

scraping

railing

raising

raking

raging

racking

raving

racing

reading

screaming

riding

screening

rising

sailing

sacking

sagging

running

saving

scaling

saying

scheming

seating

seeling

shading

setting

shaving

shedding

sheeting

shelling

shining

shirting

shredding

siding

signing

slating

slanting

sighting

sizing

skirting

slapping

sledding

sleeping

sliding

slighting

smacking

smelling

snapping

sneaking

sneezing

staging

stating

spending

sparing

speaking

spelling

standing

sperling

spinning

spurling

squeezing

stacking

staving

tanning

serving

stealing

sterling

strapping

streaming

tasting

striking

tailing

striving

stunning

taking

swaying

swearing

sweating

sweeping

sweeting

swelling

swooning

tacking

teaming

teeming

tiding

tracing

trading

trailing

turning

tuning

twining

telling

wasting

veiling

viking

voiding

wading

waiting

waking

weeding

wearing

weaving

webbing

wedding

weeping

weighing

whacking

whaling

wheeling

whirling

whiting

winding

winning

wiring

wording

yearning

working

wrecking

writing

yearling

yelling

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

acting

adorns

adorn

angling

arming

arching

asking

banking

being

belting

barring

bedroom

bedrooms

bidding

birthing

billing

bitching

blasting

bleaching

blocking

blooming

boating

blowing

blueing

bluing

blushing

boarding

boasting

bolling

bonding

bouncing

bounding

booming

booting

boozing

boring

bowling

bowing

boxing

bolting

branching

brawling

breathing

breeching

breasting

brimming

broking

brooding

browsing

brewing

brushing

bunting

bruting

bucking

budding

buckling

building

bulging

butting

buying

camping

calling

calming

carping

catching

casting

carling

caulking

charming

carving

chewing

chilling

chipping

choking

chopping

clearing

clipping

citrin

citron

citrine

cloaking

clogging

closing

clothing

clouding

clocking

clucking

coating

cocking

codding

coaching

coasting

coaxing

colling

combing

coming

faulting

crackling

cooking

cooling

coping

cooing

couching

costing

coupling

coursing

cresting

cribbing

crossing

crowing

crushing

crying

cuddling

culling

crashing

curing

cutting

daunting

darling

dashing

daydream

daydreams

digging

dethrone

dilling

dipping

dishing

cutworm

cutworms

docking

doing

dubbing

drafting

doting

doubting

drilling

drawing

drinking

dripping

drying

dropping

drumming

ducking

duckling

during

dyeing

drugging

dying

earring

earthling

edging

dueling

dumpling

etching

falling

farming

farthing

fetching

flashing

fielding

filling

floating

flying

flitting

flogging

fitting

fishing

fixing

fledgling

flooding

flooring

foaming

footing

flowing

flushing

folding

forcing

forging

forming

founding

franking

fruiting

frosting

frying

funding

fucking

fuming

galling

gearing

giving

gilding

glinting

gloaming

glowing

going

golding

golfing

foundling

grafting

grappling

handling

grasping

grooming

grounding

grouting

groundling

growing

gushing

hamstring

hadron

grouping

hatching

harping

headroom

hawthorns

hawthorn

heckling

helping

horning

hounding

hilling

hissing

hitting

hogging

holing

homing

hopping

hoarding

holding

hosting

hunting

housing

hugging

humming

hydrants

hydrant

inkling

jarring

jogging

joking

jutting

judging

jumping

kicking

knitting

lamping

knocking

kindling

knowing

kipling

lashing

latching

lasting

launching

latrines

latrine

lawing

killing

licking

lifting

living

loading

listing

longing

lodging

loathing

logging

looking

looming

looping

lopping

loring

losing

loving

lunching

lowing

lumping

lying

marching

matron

marking

matching

matrons

malting

merging

melting

mincing

milling

missing

midterms

mocking

mooring

molting

morning

modern

nosing

morphing

nothing

nanking

mounting

mourning

moving

mugging

musing

muting

mowing

moulding

nipping

nodding

nestling

midterm

nutting

pounding

moderns

offing

oozing

offspring

ousting

outing

preaching

outrun

owing

patching

parking

parting

patterned

patron

patrons

patterns

peeing

pelting

pouncing

picking

pinching

piercing

pitching

pimping

planking

plugging

plumbing

poking

plodding

poling

polling

pooling

popping

posting

pouting

purging

printing

prowling

prying

pudding

puffing

pumping

putting

pushing

quilling

rafting

rambling

quilting

return

returns

ringing

resting

rifling

ribbing

rigging

roaring

rocking

roasting

rolling

romping

roofing

rounding

roving

rubbing

ruling

salting

sapling

scalping

rousing

sauternes

saturn

scarring

saturns

schilling

sauterne

schooling

scolding

scorching

scratching

retrench

searching

screwing

scrimping

outruns

pattern

seeing

quadrant

seedling

shafting

sewing

sharking

sheathing

shelving

shilling

shifting

shearing

shipping

shocking

shooting

showing

shrinking

shrouding

sighing

shunting

sibling

shoestring

singing

shuffling

sinking

sitting

shoring

skilling

skimming

slitting

smelting

sloping

slotting

smoking

slouching

smoothing

snarling

sniffing

snoring

soaking

soaring

sobbing

soothing

something

sopping

sounding

spanking

sparling

sparkling

springing

squinting

sprinkling

sporting

squadron

squadrons

stalling

southern

stamping

starling

starting

steering

sticking

sternly

sterner

sternpost

sternposts

stinging

stirring

straddling

stirrings

stocking

stooping

stopping

stowing

stinking

stitching

storming

stormy

strangely

stranger

strangers

strangle

strangler

streamers

streamer

streamline

strengthen

strengthens

stretching

stroking

stripling

stripping

suiting

stringer

stringy

stringers

stroma

stringent

sucking

stronghold

strutting

stuffing

strongholds

strongly

suing

suckling

tackling

swimming

switching

talking

tamping

taunting

teaching

teething

thrashing

testing

thinking

tempting

thrilling

throwing

thrusting

ticking

tilting

tipping

tithing

tooling

thumping

topping

toasting

tossing

touching

tricking

trifling

trilling

trimming

tripping

trying

trucking

tubing

trusting

tying

twisting

vesting

veering

voting

vying

wanting

walking

walling

wapping

warling

warming

warning

washing

warping

vaulting

whitling

weakling

whipping

westling

wellspring

whistling

whopping

wielding

wilding

wincing

willing

wishing

witching

wringing

wrestling

whooping

yachting

yielding

3 syllable words

abiding

accenting

abounding

abducting

absorbing

accusing

according

adherents

adherence

adherent

adjoining

admiring

adrian

affecting

adoring

afflicting

adrenal

adornment

agreeing

aligning

amazing

annealing

amusing

alluring

arranging

annoying

alerting

arriving

anything

arresting

ascending

appealing

aspiring

asserting

appalling

alarming

atriums

backbiting

badgering

backsliding

baffling

attorney

attracting

ballooning

battening

battering

becoming

attorneys

beginning

beguiling

befitting

beholding

believing

approaching

belonging

approving

bettering

besetting

besieging

blackmailing

beseeching

bickering

billowing

betterment

blanketing

assuming

assuring

astounding

atrium

blundering

bloodletting

blossoming

blustering

bloodsucking

bookkeeping

bottling

brainwashing

broadcasting

buffeting

bullying

bullfighting

bundling

bungling

bubbling

bumbling

bushwhacking

bustling

butchering

buttermilk

campaigning

carousing

cackling

carjacking

canoeing

caressing

centering

carpeting

carrying

challenging

channeling

chattering

childbearing

churchgoing

coloring

colouring

comforting

favoring

blistering

commanding

commuting

complaining

completing

concerning

conceding

conquering

complying

confiding

confounding

connecting

conserving

contacting

discerning

composing

compounding

conveying

copying

counseling

convincing

correcting

covering

cowering

cradling

crusading

crocheting

conflicting

crippling

cushioning

defusing

contracting

deadening

dairying

dampening

damaging

darkening

deafening

debating

declining

degrading

delighting

converging

decreasing

departing

descending

designing

detailing

despairing

determent

cycling

deserving

determine

deterrents

deterrence

determined

determines

deterrent

dialing

diapering

detriment

disguising

disarming

disgusting

dissenting

dissembling

dissolving

emptying

distressing

enclosing

divining

diverting

dividing

doddering

dissecting

dressmaking

downsizing

doubling

drizzling

dwindling

distracting

echoing

easterling

eavesdropping

enchanting

emitting

dumbfounding

diverging

ensuing

entering

endearing

engaging

enduring

engraving

enlisting

engrossing

enticing

equating

everything

erecting

erupting

exacting

eternal

factoring

exciting

expanding

excepting

expelling

expiring

exhausting

existing

exploring

exulting

exceeding

fastening

faltering

dithyramb

feathering

flavoring

concurring

fingering

finishing

lawmaking

flattering

conforming

flowering

confusing

conjuring

forbidding

consoling

following

fondling

forecasting

forgiving

foreboding

constricting

consuming

freewheeling

frustrating

galloping

gambling

gardening

gathering

glistening

glimmering

glowering

gatherings

good-looking

governing

handwriting

groundbreaking

happening

hardening

hairdressing

heartbreaking

hardworking

harvesting

highflying

impending

housekeeping

housewarming

incoming

infighting

increasing

imposing

imprinting

imploring

importing

improving

inserting

inspiring

installing

insulting

investing

ironing

interesting

invading

inviting

issuing

journeying

jockeying

juggling

laboring

lactating

lamenting

kidnapping

laundering

forthcoming

leavening

lessening

lightening

lettering

leveling

life-giving

listening

lingering

locating

lowering

languishing

consulting

maddening

machining

landholding

lumbering

marketing

lutherans

matchmaking

marshaling

maternal

matronly

lutheran

maturing

measuring

meddling

landscaping

mellowing

middling

mistaking

misleading

modeling

misspelling

misgiving

modernist

modernists

mothering

motoring

mottling

murmuring

muscling

mumbling

neighboring

narrowing

neutering

nerve-racking

networking

nourishing

forwarding

modernize

observing

obliging

ongoing

offsetting

oncoming

opening

opining

opposing

ordering

outgoing

outfitting

outlying

outpouring

nutrient

painstaking

paneling

papering

pardoning

parceling

paternal

nutrients

patronize

patrolling

patronage

pervading

peppering

peddling

persisting

perplexing

peterman

pickering

piddling

pilfering

pondering

plastering

pitying

polluting

polishing

pronouncing

odorant

offering

preceding

presiding

powdering

prevailing

outermost

outstanding

profiling

promising

proceeding

profiting

provoking

quarreling

quickening

railroading

raveling

relieving

reasoning

reckoning

reclining

ravishing

rejoicing

relapsing

refreshing

reducing

reflecting

recording

regarding

rendering

repeating

resisting

retiring

retrenchment

retrenchments

reversing

reviving

revolting

riveting

revolving

rumbling

scaffolding

scattering

scavenging

scrambling

respecting

retirements

seasoning

seagoing

scribbling

seducing

shadowing

settling

shimmering

shipbuilding

shortening

shoplifting

sickening

sizzling

shortcoming

sleepwalking

smattering

sojourning

softening

soldering

soldiering

southerners

southernmost

southerner

souring

stiffening

strengthening

strangulate

strontium

stringency

stuttering

succeeding

surrounding

surviving

surveying

sweetening

tabling

surprising

tailoring

suffering

tapering

surpassing

threatening

tempering

thickening

thanksgiving

thundering

tinkering

ticketing

tinkling

tormenting

toweling

towering

traversing

trembling

transporting

tumbling

twinkling

trumpeting

typesetting

typewriting

unbending

varying

unfailing

undoing

undying

unfeeling

unflinching

unwilling

unwitting

uprising

upsetting

unsparing

unyielding

unthinking

uterine

vanishing

underling

visiting

veteran

vomiting

wagering

wandering

warehousing

utterance

waterman

veterans

weathering

watering

watermark

well-being

whispering

whitening

watermarks

winnowing

withering

yellowing

wrongdoing

yttrium

4 syllable words

activating

advertising

admonishing

adrenalin

adrenergic

agonizing

agitating

adrenaline

aggravating

annotating

appetizing

awakening

babysitting

barbecuing

bicycling

bewildering

astonishing

captivating

calculating

centralizing

circulating

coexisting

disappointing

complicating

delegating

denigrating

deodorants

deodorant

determinant

determinist

diagnosing

devastating

developing

detrimental

determinants

corresponding

determinate

disabling

disengaging

discouraging

disconcerting

disappearing

disheartening

disapproving

disparaging

distributing

dispiriting

dominating

edifying

embarrassing

emphasizing

encircling

domineering

enlightening

entertaining

energizing

engineering

encompassing

enterprising

everlasting

eternally

eternity

examining

executing

enveloping

encouraging

fascinating

father-in-law

distinguishing

fireproofing

fingerprinting

condescending

conditioning

fluctuating

gratifying

hesitating

hydrometer

implicating

inquiring

integrating

inheriting

inhibiting

interviewing

interlocking

irritating

intersecting

detonating

laminating

legislating

liberating

maximizing

merchandising

maternity

mitigating

moderating

matrimony

modernism

modernizes

modernity

mother-in-law

never-ending

nonrecurring

mountaineering

notifying

notwithstanding

obviating

occupying

oceangoing

operating

oscillating

overbearing

overlying

overcoming

overflowing

overlapping

overpowering

overarching

overhauling

overrating

overruling

overwhelming

palpitating

parachuting

paternity

partitioning

patrimonial

patronizing

patronizes

patronymic

patrimony

penetrating

persevering

petitioning

pioneering

quadrennial

quaternary

reentering

realizing

registering

returnable

retirement

speechifying

strangulations

strangulation

suffocating

separating

unavailing

unassuming

unbecoming

unbelieving

underpinning

undertaking

underwriting

undulating

underlying

understanding

unrelenting

unremitting

utterances

vacillating

veterinary

waterproofing

watermelon

watermelons

6 syllable words

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Words that rhyme with the word straining

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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.


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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

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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
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  • 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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