Words that rhyme with Crying
Crying is a one-syllable word built around the front /ษ/, and it lets the line ring through a nasal. Lyric-wise, it carries weight without needing description. The word arrives in song as a feeling word. What rhymes with crying? The honest answer: only a handful of strict perfect rhymes survive, the family-rhyme bucket is bare, and the assonance pool runs into the thousands. Assonance is where the modern songwriting toolkit lives for this one.
Open crying in RhymeForge โPerfect rhymes (25 shown)
Exact match from the stressed vowel onward, with voice-pair near-perfects folded in.
- buying
- drying
- dyeing
- dying
- eyeing
- flying
- frying
- lying
- plying
- prying
- shying
- sighing
- spying
- tieing
- trying
- tying
- vying
- applying
- belying
- complying
- defying
- denying
- implying
- relying
- replying
Family rhymes (0 shown)
Same vowel, with a single consonant swapped for one from the same articulatory family. Slant rhymes that pass the ear test.
No family rhymes for crying. Reach for assonance below for the closest slant rhyming.
Additive & subtractive (25 shown)
Same core sound, with an extra consonant added (or one dropped) at the end.
- apply
- awry
- belie
- bonsai
- comply
- decry
- defy
- deny
- descry
- goodbye
- hereby
- imply
- lanai
- mumbai
- rely
- reply
- retry
- supply
- untie
- versailles
- whereby
- ai
- aye
- bi
- buy
Assonance (25 shown)
Matching vowel sound, consonants ignored. The biggest pool by far, and the workhorse of slant rhyming.
- reinking
- binding
- bindings
- blinded
- blinding
- brining
- climbing
- dining
- finding
- findings
- fining
- grinding
- liming
- linage
- lining
- linings
- minding
- mining
- pining
- priming
- rhyming
- shining
- signage
- signing
- signings
Consonance (25 shown)
Matching consonant sound, vowels ignored. Best for texture and tension rather than punch.
- baying
- being
- blowing
- blueing
- bluing
- blurring
- booing
- bowing
- brewing
- chewing
- clawing
- cooing
- cowing
- crowing
- cuing
- dewing
- doing
- drawing
- fleeing
- flowing
- fraying
- freeing
- geeing
- glowing
- gnawing
How songwriters use these rhymes
Every time I write crying, the next line wants buying.
No family rhymes for crying. Reach for assonance below for the closest slant.
Crying alone, apply in the chorus โ the song builds the consonant in.
What we called crying, the lyric heard as reinking.
The crying at the start of the line, the baying tucked inside it, same consonant frame.
Why crying rhymes the way it does
To understand why crying rhymes the way it does, start with the vowel โ the front /ษ/, written /ษ/ โ and the ending, which rings out through a nasal. In our 54,000-word dictionary the perfect-rhyme pool returns 34 matches, family rhymes 0, additive and subtractive together 90, assonance 3,070, and consonance 309. The empty family column matters less than it looks. Family rhymes are a strict-classifier construct; the songwriter's ear accepts most assonance matches in their place. Practical guidance: read the song aloud and listen for where a slant would tighten the line. Strict rhymes are the structural skeleton; the slant columns are where the personality of the lyric lives. With crying, the slant work is doing more weight-bearing than it looks.
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About RhymeForge
RhymeForge is the free rhyme finder built into Undercover Zest. It searches over 54,000 words across five rhyme types: perfect, family, additive, assonance, and consonance. It is built for songwriters, not crossword solvers, and the slant-rhyme classifications are tuned accordingly.
This page is a static snapshot of the rhymes for crying. For interactive search, voice-pair highlighting, syllable counting and quality sorting, open crying in RhymeForge above.