Rhyming dictionary
Words that rhyme with happening
Happening has 3 syllables (or 2 in another common pronunciation). The first syllable is stressed. It has 2 common pronunciations, so each one has its own list of rhymes below.
Top near rhymes for happening: happenings, dampening, captioning, captaining, grappling, maddening, flattening, fattening.
“happening” (3 syllables)
Near rhymes for happening
80Same vowel sound, different consonants. Closest-sounding first.
3 syllables
- happenings
- dampening
- captioning
- captaining
- grappling
- maddening
- flattening
- fattening
- saddening
- blackening
- slackening
- battening
- happiness
- platinum
- rationing
- babbling
- fastening
- sanctioning
- dabbling
- rampaging
- fashioning
- patenting
- fragmenting
- champion
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- cabinet
- challenging
- gambling
- packaging
- capita
- balancing
- battling
- tackling
- cabinets
- stamina
- acronym
- scrambling
- rambling
- rattling
- baffling
- apnea
- paddling
- scavenging
- cackling
- haggling
- lamina
- taxiing
- ambling
- saddling
- fastenings
- accenting
- waggling
- caddying
- carrying
- champions
- handling
- traveling
- practicing
- damaging
- happiest
- abdomen
- baptism
- patronage
- dazzling
- dangling
- rallying
- canceling
- championed
- scaffolding
- channeling
4+ syllables
- examining
- imagining
- abandoning
- unhappiness
- reexamining
- inhabiting
- cohabiting
- establishing
- diagonal
- dismantling
- hexagonal
“happening” (2 syllables)
Near rhymes for happening
80Same vowel sound, different consonants. Closest-sounding first.
2 syllables
- planning
- mapping
- manning
- banning
- tapping
- scanning
- granting
- wrapping
- spanning
- snapping
- trapping
- clapping
- slapping
- canning
- tanning
- rapping
- fanning
- happenings
- capping
- scrapping
- napping
- flapping
- strapping
- lapping
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- panning
- dampening
- sapping
- zapping
- flattening
- fattening
- blackening
- grabbing
- stabbing
- grappling
- trappings
- maddening
- dabbing
- sapling
- saddening
- jabbing
- nabbing
- gabbing
- tabbing
- happen
- adding
- hanging
- anna
- tracking
- backing
- canon
- lacking
- packing
- cannon
- cracking
- ana
- hacking
- batting
- phantom
- chatting
- sampling
- banging
- kappa
- slamming
- jamming
- stacking
- spamming
- damning
- padding
- racking
- sacking
- smacking
3 syllables
- enchanting
- unwrapping
- recapping
- piano
- attacking
- banana
- adapting
- collapsing
- combating
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Questions
- What rhymes with happening?
- The closest near rhymes for happening are happenings, dampening, captioning, captaining, grappling, maddening, flattening, fattening, saddening and blackening. There are 80 in all, grouped by syllables on this page.
- How many syllables are in happening?
- Happening has 3 syllables (or 2 in another common pronunciation). The first syllable is stressed.
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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).