Words that rhyme with Upcoming
Upcoming is an unguarded everyday word: three-syllable, vowel sitting on the tight /ษช/, ending that trails through a nasal hum. The lyric earns it by placement, not by selection. It serves as a household-word in most lyrics. Search for what rhymes with upcoming and the engine returns a recognisable shape: the perfect pool is workable but compact, family rhymes round out the strict column, and the assonance column dwarfs the others. Reach for the assonance list whenever the strict pool starts repeating itself.
Open upcoming in RhymeForge โPerfect rhymes (18 shown)
Exact match from the stressed vowel onward, with voice-pair near-perfects folded in.
- becoming
- succumbing
- coming
- drumming
- dumbing
- humming
- numbing
- plumbing
- summing
- thumbing
- homecoming
- oncoming
- strumming
- unbecoming
- incoming
- shortcoming
- forthcoming
- overcoming
Family rhymes (11 shown)
Same vowel, with a single consonant swapped for one from the same articulatory family. Slant rhymes that pass the ear test.
- stunning
- outrunning
- cunning
- dunning
- gunning
- running
- shunning
- sunning
- outgunning
- rerunning
- overrunning
Additive & subtractive (25 shown)
Same core sound, with an extra consonant added (or one dropped) at the end.
- comings
- shortcomings
- overcome
- become
- among
- succumb
- bum
- cum
- drum
- dumb
- gum
- mum
- sum
- thumb
- overhung
- clung
- flung
- hung
- lung
- stung
- sung
- tongue
- young
- chum
- come
Assonance (25 shown)
Matching vowel sound, consonants ignored. The biggest pool by far, and the workhorse of slant rhyming.
- crushing
- loving
- nothing
- putting
- touching
- discussing
- pumpkin
- something
- bluffing
- blushing
- brushing
- budding
- bugging
- busing
- bussing
- butting
- buzzing
- chugging
- clubbing
- culling
- drugging
- dubbing
- ducking
- dulling
- flooding
Ending rhymes (25 shown)
A shared unstressed final syllable โ the window/shadow slant. Weaker than a perfect rhyme, completely idiomatic in song.
- charming
- farming
- alarming
- blossoming
- bottoming
- performing
- reforming
- transforming
- vacuuming
- underperforming
- arming
- filming
- forming
- harming
- helming
- storming
- swarming
- warming
- upbringing
- uplifting
- uploading
- barnstorming
- brainstorming
- conforming
- disarming
Consonance (25 shown)
Matching consonant sound, vowels ignored. Best for texture and tension rather than punch.
- climbing
- gaming
- swimming
- timing
- acclaiming
- condemning
- proclaiming
- reclaiming
- aiming
- beaming
- blooming
- bombing
- booming
- brimming
- calming
- claiming
- combing
- cramming
- damming
- damning
- dimming
- dooming
- dreaming
- fleming
- foaming
How songwriters use these rhymes
Every time I write upcoming, the next line wants becoming.
Upcoming and stunning: same vowel, kissing-cousin consonant.
It started as upcoming, ended as comings, same vowel either way.
All night the upcoming turned into crushing, vowel-first, consonants letting go.
Upcoming closes one line, charming the next โ the last syllable carries them home.
Inside the line, upcoming echoes climbing on consonant alone.
Why upcoming rhymes the way it does
To understand why upcoming rhymes the way it does, start with the vowel โ the high /ษช/, written /ษช/ โ and the ending, which lets the nasal carry the tail. In our 54,000-word dictionary the perfect-rhyme pool returns 18 matches, family rhymes 11, additive and subtractive together 68, assonance 3,701, and consonance 92. The mix gives you options across the board. Strict rhymes for the structural beats, family or assonance for the interior lines. 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 upcoming 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 upcoming. For interactive search, voice-pair highlighting, syllable counting and quality sorting, open upcoming in RhymeForge above.