Words that rhyme with Turning
A two-syllable word that reads as a kinetic anchor, turning sits on the short /ɪ/ and hums to a nasal close. It's restless — the line behind it tends to move. This one travels in song as a verb of movement. If you came here looking for what rhymes with turning, here's the shape of it: only a handful of strict perfect rhymes survive, there's a small family-rhyme pool to draw from, and the assonance column dwarfs the others. Reach for the assonance list whenever the strict pool starts repeating itself.
Open turning in RhymeForge →Perfect rhymes (10 shown)
Exact match from the stressed vowel onward, with voice-pair near-perfects folded in.
- burning
- churning
- durning
- earning
- learning
- spurning
- yearning
- adjourning
- concerning
- discerning
Family rhymes (7 shown)
Same vowel, with a single consonant swapped for one from the same articulatory family. Slant rhymes that pass the ear test.
- firming
- squirming
- terming
- vermin
- affirming
- confirming
- reaffirming
Additive & subtractive (25 shown)
Same core sound, with an extra consonant added (or one dropped) at the end.
- burnings
- earnings
- yearnings
- adjourn
- concern
- discern
- return
- sauterne
- upturn
- burn
- churn
- dern
- durn
- earn
- erne
- fern
- hern
- kern
- kirn
- learn
- spurn
- stern
- turn
- urn
- yearn
Assonance (25 shown)
Matching vowel sound, consonants ignored. The biggest pool by far, and the workhorse of slant rhyming.
- birthing
- burling
- burnet
- burnish
- burping
- chirping
- curbing
- curling
- cursing
- curving
- flirting
- furnish
- girding
- herding
- herling
- hurling
- hurting
- jerking
- lurching
- lurking
- merging
- nursing
- pearling
- perking
- persing
Consonance (25 shown)
Matching consonant sound, vowels ignored. Best for texture and tension rather than punch.
- awning
- banning
- binning
- boning
- branning
- brenning
- brining
- browning
- caning
- canning
- chaining
- cleaning
- cloning
- clowning
- coining
- conning
- crooning
- crowning
- dawning
- deigning
- denning
- dining
- dinning
- donning
- downing
How songwriters use these rhymes
I keep on saying turning, and the night keeps saying burning back.
Turning here, firming there, the ear says they rhyme.
She gave the turning away, then watched it come back as burnings.
What we called turning, the lyric heard as birthing.
Listen for the consonant under turning and you'll hear it again under awning.
Why turning rhymes the way it does
Turning is two-syllable, its rhyme-relevant vowel sitting on the high /ɪ/, then it rings out through a nasal. In our 54,000-word dictionary the perfect-rhyme pool returns 10 matches, family rhymes 7, additive and subtractive together 77, assonance 3,752, and consonance 159. The mix gives you options across the board. Strict rhymes for the structural beats, family or assonance for the interior lines. What matters when you're writing: the ear forgives slants in service of meaning. If the strict rhyme is the predictable word, the assonance match will usually hit harder. Turning is a word where the slant choice almost always reads as more thoughtful than the obvious end-rhyme.
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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 turning. For interactive search, voice-pair highlighting, syllable counting and quality sorting, open turning in RhymeForge above.