Words that rhyme with Ripping
Take ripping apart phonetically and the bones are these: two-syllable, vowel on the high /ษช/, ending that lets the line ring through a nasal. It's a word everyone uses โ which is what makes it powerful in a lyric. Two readings: as data โ strict rhymes are scarce, the family column adds a handful of singable slants, the vowel-only slant pool is deep enough to write a whole album from; as lyric โ a plain-speech anchor. Lean on assonance and the song will sound contemporary, not catalogued.
Open ripping in RhymeForge โPerfect rhymes (20 shown)
Exact match from the stressed vowel onward, with voice-pair near-perfects folded in.
- chipping
- clipping
- dipping
- dripping
- flipping
- gripping
- nipping
- shipping
- sipping
- skipping
- slipping
- stripping
- tipping
- tripping
- whipping
- zipping
- cribbing
- libbing
- equipping
- outstripping
Family rhymes (1 shown)
Same vowel, with a single consonant swapped for one from the same articulatory family. Slant rhymes that pass the ear test.
- pippin
Only 1 match for ripping in this type โ the slant columns below pick up the slack.
Additive & subtractive (25 shown)
Same core sound, with an extra consonant added (or one dropped) at the end.
- clippings
- equip
- outstrip
- roundtrip
- unzip
- blip
- chip
- clip
- dip
- drip
- flip
- grip
- gyp
- hip
- kip
- kipp
- lip
- nip
- pip
- quip
- rip
- ripp
- scrip
- ship
- sip
Assonance (25 shown)
Matching vowel sound, consonants ignored. The biggest pool by far, and the workhorse of slant rhyming.
- ribbing
- bidding
- billing
- binning
- bitching
- bitting
- bridging
- brimming
- bringing
- cheering
- chilling
- clearing
- clicking
- clinging
- dearing
- dering
- digging
- dilling
- dimming
- dinning
- dishing
- dissing
- ditching
- drilling
- earring
Consonance (25 shown)
Matching consonant sound, vowels ignored. Best for texture and tension rather than punch.
- aping
- beeping
- bleeping
- burping
- capping
- chirping
- chopping
- clapping
- coping
- copping
- creeping
- cropping
- draping
- drooping
- dropping
- flapping
- flopping
- gaping
- griping
- groping
- grouping
- heaping
- hoping
- hopping
- hyping
How songwriters use these rhymes
Ripping in the first verse, chipping in the second, and a song between them.
The ripping in the line, the pippin at the end of it โ same vowel, different door.
Ripping at the verse, clippings at the line that follows it.
Track the vowel from ripping to ribbing and you have the chorus.
Listen for the consonant under ripping and you'll hear it again under aping.
Why ripping rhymes the way it does
Pull ripping apart phonetically and you get a two-syllable word with the high /ษช/ (/ษช/) as the rhyme-bearing vowel; the close lets the nasal carry the tail. In our 54,000-word dictionary the perfect-rhyme pool returns 20 matches, family rhymes 1, additive and subtractive together 61, assonance 10,987, and consonance 91. The mix gives you options across the board. Strict rhymes for the structural beats, family or assonance for the interior lines. The songwriter's move is to pick a small set of strict rhymes for the chorus and open up to family and assonance through the verses. Ripping rewards slant rhyming because the strict pool, when over-used, calls attention to itself.
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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 ripping. For interactive search, voice-pair highlighting, syllable counting and quality sorting, open ripping in RhymeForge above.