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Words that rhyme with paying

Paying has 2 syllables. The first syllable is stressed. There are 35 perfect rhymes and 80 near rhymes below, grouped by syllables.

Top rhymes for paying: playing, saying, staying, laying, praying, weighing, spraying, slaying.

Perfect rhymes for paying

35

2 syllables

  • playing
  • saying
  • staying
  • laying
  • praying
  • weighing
  • spraying
  • slaying
  • swaying
  • preying
  • straying
  • fraying
  • baying
  • graying
  • haying

3 syllables

  • displaying
  • delaying
  • portraying
  • surveying
  • conveying
  • decaying
  • betraying
  • obeying
  • replaying
  • repaying
  • crocheting
  • buffeting
  • allaying
  • dismaying
  • prepaying
  • purveying
  • arraying
  • nonpaying

4+ syllables

  • disobeying
  • overplaying

Near rhymes for paying

80

Same vowel sound, different consonants. Closest-sounding first.

2 syllables

  • sayings
  • slayings
  • making
  • taking
  • training
  • waiting
  • breaking
  • dating
  • trading
  • saving
  • facing
  • racing
  • rating
  • raising
  • gaming
  • claiming
  • failing
  • graham
  • placing
  • stating
  • gaining
  • chasing
  • shaking
  • aging
Show 28 more
  • sailing
  • waking
  • baking
  • aiming
  • blaming
  • naming
  • hating
  • skating
  • waving
  • raining
  • shaping
  • bathing
  • raging
  • staging
  • scaling
  • shaving
  • fading
  • mailing
  • praising
  • framing
  • craving
  • tracing
  • draining
  • trailing
  • mating
  • grazing
  • blazing
  • grading

3 syllables

  • amazing
  • creating
  • remaining
  • containing
  • maintaining
  • explaining
  • relating
  • replacing
  • engaging
  • complaining
  • obtaining
  • retaining
  • awaiting
  • escaping
  • updating
  • debating
  • embracing
  • campaigning
  • detailing
  • upgrading
  • pertaining
  • prevailing
  • sustaining
  • behaving
Show 3 more
  • invading
  • translating
  • restraining

4+ syllables

  • entertaining

Questions

What rhymes with paying?
The closest perfect rhymes for paying are playing, saying, staying, laying, praying, weighing, spraying, slaying, swaying and preying. There are 35 in all, grouped by syllables on this page.
How many syllables are in paying?
Paying has 2 syllables. The first syllable is stressed.
What are some near rhymes for paying?
Near rhymes keep the vowel sound but change the consonants, which is often what a lyric needs. For paying, try sayings, slayings, making, taking and training.

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).