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Words that rhyme with waiting

Waiting has 2 syllables. The first syllable is stressed. There are 36 perfect rhymes and 80 near rhymes below, grouped by syllables.

Perfect rhymes for waiting

36

2 syllables

  • dating
  • rating
  • stating
  • hating
  • skating
  • mating
  • grating
  • plating
  • baiting
  • gating
  • crating
  • slating
  • plaiting

3 syllables

  • creating
  • relating
  • awaiting
  • updating
  • debating
  • translating
  • equating
  • inflating
  • berating
  • negating
  • deflating
  • abating
  • restating
  • sedating
  • misstating
  • elating
  • postdating

4+ syllables

  • recreating
  • innovating
  • reinstating
  • annotating
  • procreating
  • overrating

Near rhymes for waiting

80

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

2 syllables

  • painting
  • ratings
  • wasting
  • tasting
  • fainting
  • straightening
  • pasting
  • basting
  • tainting
  • weightings
  • hasting
  • making
  • taking
  • playing
  • saying
  • data
  • paying
  • breaking
  • trading
  • staying
  • beta
  • laying
  • shaking
  • praying
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  • waking
  • baking
  • weighing
  • shaping
  • fading
  • grading
  • aiding
  • faking
  • spraying
  • braking
  • scraping
  • shading
  • aching
  • raiding
  • straighten
  • slaying
  • taping
  • gaping
  • theta
  • swaying
  • zeta
  • wading
  • raking
  • staking
  • preying
  • straying

3 syllables

  • repainting
  • lambasting
  • escaping
  • displaying
  • upgrading
  • invading
  • delaying
  • degrading
  • portraying
  • surveying
  • conveying
  • decaying
  • betraying
  • persuading
  • verbatim
  • obeying
  • mistaking
  • evading
  • reshaping
  • cascading
  • remaking
  • parading
  • replaying
  • repaying
Show 2 more
  • downgrading
  • crusading

4+ syllables

  • animating
  • ultimatum
  • masquerading
  • disobeying

Sounds the same as waiting

Rhyming waiting with one of these is an identical rhyme; it can feel like repeating yourself.

  • weighting

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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).