Rhyming dictionary
Words that rhyme with breaking
Breaking has 2 syllables. The first syllable is stressed. There are 16 perfect rhymes and 80 near rhymes below, grouped by syllables.
Top rhymes for breaking: making, taking, shaking, waking, baking, faking, aching, raking.
Perfect rhymes for breaking
162 syllables
3 syllables
- mistaking
- remaking
- retaking
- forsaking
Near rhymes for breaking
80Same vowel sound, different consonants. Closest-sounding first.
2 syllables
- makings
- takings
- playing
- saying
- taken
- waiting
- paying
- dating
- staying
- rating
- laying
- bacon
- stating
- praying
- hating
- skating
- weighing
- shaping
- akin
- shaken
- mating
- spraying
- scraping
- slaying
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- taping
- gaping
- grating
- plating
- swaying
- baiting
- weighting
- preying
- straying
- plaguing
- gating
- draping
- fraying
- waken
- baying
- graying
- aping
- crating
3 syllables
- creating
- relating
- mistaken
- awaiting
- escaping
- updating
- debating
- displaying
- translating
- delaying
- awaken
- portraying
- surveying
- conveying
- forsaken
- decaying
- betraying
- obeying
- equating
- reshaping
- inflating
- replaying
- repaying
- berating
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- retaken
- negating
- deflating
- crocheting
- abating
- restating
- buffeting
- sedating
4+ syllables
- recreating
- innovating
- disobeying
- reinstating
- annotating
- overplaying
Sounds the same as breaking
Rhyming breaking with one of these is an identical rhyme; it can feel like repeating yourself.
- braking
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Questions
- What rhymes with breaking?
- The closest perfect rhymes for breaking are making, taking, shaking, waking, baking, faking, aching, raking, staking and flaking. There are 16 in all, grouped by syllables on this page.
- How many syllables are in breaking?
- Breaking has 2 syllables. The first syllable is stressed.
- What are some near rhymes for breaking?
- Near rhymes keep the vowel sound but change the consonants, which is often what a lyric needs. For breaking, try makings, takings, playing, saying and taken.
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Pronunciations from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (Carnegie Mellon University). Word frequency from wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0), word lists from SCOWL, offensive-word filtering from LDNOOBW (CC BY 4.0).