Words that rhyme with Trying
A one-syllable word that reads as a household-word, trying sits on the front /ษ/ and lets the nasal carry the tail. The lyric earns it by placement, not by selection. Songwriters reach for it as a quotidian anchor. You won't run short of perfect rhymes, the family-rhyme bucket is bare, and the assonance well is bottomless. There's enough in the strict column to write a verse without leaving it.
Open trying in RhymeForge โPerfect rhymes (25 shown)
Exact match from the stressed vowel onward, with voice-pair near-perfects folded in.
- buying
- crying
- dying
- flying
- lying
- drying
- dyeing
- eyeing
- frying
- plying
- prying
- shying
- sighing
- spying
- tieing
- tying
- vying
- applying
- complying
- defying
- denying
- implying
- relying
- supplying
- undying
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 trying. 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
- comply
- deny
- goodbye
- imply
- mumbai
- rely
- supply
- aye
- bye
- chi
- cry
- die
- dry
- dye
- eye
- fly
- fry
- guy
- high
- lie
- pie
- shy
- sigh
- sky
Assonance (25 shown)
Matching vowel sound, consonants ignored. The biggest pool by far, and the workhorse of slant rhyming.
- binding
- climbing
- findings
- grinding
- lining
- mining
- timing
- biting
- diving
- fighting
- hiding
- hiking
- psychic
- riding
- rising
- smiling
- striking
- typing
- wireless
- writings
- bindings
- blinded
- blinding
- dining
- finding
Ending rhymes (25 shown)
A shared unstressed final syllable โ the window/shadow slant. Weaker than a perfect rhyme, completely idiomatic in song.
- acting
- aging
- backing
- banking
- banning
- batting
- bearing
- beating
- begging
- betting
- bidding
- bleeding
- blessing
- boarding
- booking
- boring
- bowling
- boxing
- breeding
- burning
- calling
- camping
- caring
- casting
- ceiling
Consonance (25 shown)
Matching consonant sound, vowels ignored. Best for texture and tension rather than punch.
- drawing
- flowing
- glowing
- skiing
- viewing
- baying
- blowing
- blueing
- bluing
- blurring
- booing
- bowing
- brewing
- chewing
- clawing
- cooing
- cowing
- crowing
- dewing
- fleeing
- fraying
- freeing
- geeing
- greying
- growing
How songwriters use these rhymes
All the words I learned for trying came back as buying.
No family rhymes for trying. Reach for assonance below for the closest slant.
She gave the trying away, then watched it come back as apply.
Trying at the line's beginning, binding at its end, same vowel humming through both.
Sing trying, answer with acting: the endings lean on each other and hold.
Inside the line, trying echoes drawing on consonant alone.
Why trying rhymes the way it does
In our engine, trying registers as a one-syllable word on the short /ษ/ (/ษ/) that ends on a humming nasal. In our 54,000-word dictionary the perfect-rhyme pool returns 84 matches, family rhymes 0, additive and subtractive together 195, assonance 4,150, and consonance 385. That's a deep perfect column. The song can ride strict rhymes from end to end, only sliding into assonance when the line needs to surprise. 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 trying, 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 trying. For interactive search, voice-pair highlighting, syllable counting and quality sorting, open trying in RhymeForge above.