Words that rhyme with Occurring
Most songwriters treat occurring as a stop-by-stop-grocery-shelf word, but the phonology underneath matters: three-syllable, vowel on the clipped /ษช/, ending that lets the line ring through a nasal. The lyric earns it by placement, not by selection. The assonance well runs into four figures, nothing lands in the family-rhyme column, and the strict-rhyme column is bounded. Type rhymes for occurring into any dictionary and the answer is roughly the same: the pull is toward slant work. The slant pool is huge enough that you'll never need to repeat a rhyme.
Open occurring in RhymeForge โPerfect rhymes (16 shown)
Exact match from the stressed vowel onward, with voice-pair near-perfects folded in.
- concurring
- conferring
- deferring
- demurring
- deterring
- preferring
- referring
- transferring
- incurring
- inferring
- blurring
- purring
- slurring
- spurring
- stirring
- whirring
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 occurring. 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.
- stirrings
- connoisseur
- reoccur
- restauranteur
- saboteur
- chauffeur
- concur
- confer
- defer
- demur
- deter
- incur
- infer
- inter
- liqueur
- monsieur
- occur
- prefer
- recur
- refer
- transfer
- entrepreneur
- restaurateur
- birr
- blur
Assonance (25 shown)
Matching vowel sound, consonants ignored. The biggest pool by far, and the workhorse of slant rhyming.
- adjourning
- affirming
- concerning
- confirming
- discerning
- returning
- absurdist
- alerted
- alerting
- allergic
- asserted
- asserting
- assertive
- averted
- averting
- coercing
- coercive
- conserving
- converging
- conversing
- converted
- converting
- deserted
- deserving
- disbursing
Consonance (25 shown)
Matching consonant sound, vowels ignored. Best for texture and tension rather than punch.
- accruing
- agreeing
- allaying
- allowing
- annoying
- applying
- arraying
- belying
- bestowing
- betraying
- buffeting
- canoeing
- complying
- conveying
- crocheting
- debuting
- decaying
- decrying
- defying
- delaying
- denying
- deploying
- destroying
- dismaying
- displaying
How songwriters use these rhymes
You said occurring, I heard concurring, neither of us was wrong.
No family rhymes for occurring. Reach for assonance below for the closest slant.
She gave the occurring away, then watched it come back as stirrings.
What we called occurring, the lyric heard as adjourning.
Occurring and accruing: the vowels are different but the consonants are kin.
Why occurring rhymes the way it does
Pull occurring apart phonetically and you get a three-syllable word with the clipped /ษช/ (/ษช/) as the rhyme-bearing vowel; the close rings out through a nasal. In our 54,000-word dictionary the perfect-rhyme pool returns 16 matches, family rhymes 0, additive and subtractive together 52, assonance 3,773, and consonance 312. 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. In practice: start at the top of the perfect column, scan family next, and reach for the assonance pool when the strict matches feel worn. A lyric that uses only strict rhymes for occurring tends to read as dated; the contemporary ear forgives โ and often prefers โ the slant.
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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 occurring. For interactive search, voice-pair highlighting, syllable counting and quality sorting, open occurring in RhymeForge above.