Words that end in -ing
English words ending in -ing, grouped by number of syllables. Great for rhymes and spelling practice.
There are 6,254 words in our list; here are the 500 most common.
1 syllable 12
- thing thing
- bring bring
- king king
- spring spring
- ring ring
- wing wing
- sing sing
- string string
- swing swing
- sting sting
- ping ping
- ding ding
2 syllables 310
- being be-ing
- going go-ing
- something some-thing
- during dur-ing
- doing do-ing
- getting get-ting
- nothing noth-ing
- making mak-ing
- trying try-ing
- coming com-ing
- taking tak-ing
- saying say-ing
- morning morn-ing
- living liv-ing
- building build-ing
- running run-ning
- training train-ing
- meeting meet-ing
- reading read-ing
- feeling feel-ing
- writing writ-ing
- waiting wait-ing
- seeing see-ing
- moving mov-ing
- leading lead-ing
- having hav-ing
- winning win-ning
- looking look-ing
- calling call-ing
- growing grow-ing
- fighting fight-ing
- telling tell-ing
- planning plan-ning
- holding hold-ing
- killing kill-ing
- showing show-ing
- meaning mean-ing
- using us-ing
- evening eve-ning
- putting put-ting
- sitting sit-ting
- standing stand-ing
- walking walk-ing
- working work-ing
- finding find-ing
- losing los-ing
- keeping keep-ing
- wedding wed-ding
- acting act-ing
- hearing hear-ing
- helping help-ing
- shooting shoot-ing
- playing play-ing
- housing hous-ing
- setting set-ting
- changing chang-ing
- knowing know-ing
- teaching teach-ing
- willing will-ing
- flying fly-ing
- spending spend-ing
- turning turn-ing
- talking talk-ing
- ending end-ing
- shopping shop-ping
- lying ly-ing
- thinking think-ing
- dying dy-ing
- funding fund-ing
- passing pass-ing
- trading trad-ing
- cutting cut-ting
- laughing laugh-ing
- dealing deal-ing
- painting paint-ing
- saving sav-ing
- singing sing-ing
- warning warn-ing
- drawing draw-ing
- mining min-ing
- giving giv-ing
- letting let-ting
- rising ris-ing
- shipping ship-ping
- smoking smo-king
- dancing danc-ing
- facing fac-ing
- hanging hang-ing
- racing rac-ing
- riding rid-ing
- heading head-ing
- starting start-ing
- clothing cloth-ing
- fishing fish-ing
- loving lov-ing
- parking park-ing
- closing clos-ing
- hitting hit-ting
- cooking cook-ing
- missing mis-sing
- rating rat-ing
- beating beat-ing
- boring bor-ing
- swimming swim-ming
- hunting hunt-ing
- watching watch-ing
- landing land-ing
- cleaning clean-ing
- posting post-ing
- leaving leav-ing
- asking ask-ing
- gaming gam-ing
- searching search-ing
- banking bank-ing
- screaming scream-ing
- crossing cross-ing
- dropping drop-ping
- hiding hid-ing
- learning learn-ing
- listing list-ing
- nursing nurs-ing
- speaking speak-ing
- driving driv-ing
- failing fail-ing
- ruling rul-ing
- stopping stop-ping
- timing tim-ing
- breathing breath-ing
- feeding feed-ing
- printing print-ing
- stunning stun-ning
- eating eat-ing
- wearing wear-ing
- backing back-ing
- bearing bear-ing
- lightning light-ning
- touching touch-ing
- farming farm-ing
- selling sell-ing
- caring car-ing
- kidding kid-ding
- striking strik-ing
- filling fill-ing
- ranking rank-ing
- ceiling ceil-ing
- heating heat-ing
- boxing box-ing
- dressing dress-ing
- sporting sport-ing
- buying buy-ing
- casting cast-ing
- paying pay-ing
- screening screen-ing
- smiling smil-ing
- breaking break-ing
- binding bind-ing
- wrestling wres-tling
- sterling ster-ling
- washing wash-ing
- climbing climb-ing
- bringing bring-ing
- drinking drink-ing
- lasting last-ing
- dating dat-ing
- fitting fit-ting
- matching match-ing
- shocking shock-ing
- darling dar-ling
- bleeding bleed-ing
- breeding breed-ing
- gambling gam-bling
- pressing press-ing
- starring star-ring
- viewing view-ing
- adding add-ing
- charming charm-ing
- hoping hop-ing
- testing test-ing
- falling fall-ing
- sharing shar-ing
- blessing bles-sing
- bowling bowl-ing
- aging ag-ing
- clearing clear-ing
- joking jok-ing
- serving serv-ing
- voting vot-ing
- diving div-ing
- pending pend-ing
- sending send-ing
- betting bet-ting
- camping camp-ing
- spelling spell-ing
- digging dig-ging
- liking lik-ing
- sailing sail-ing
- seeking seek-ing
- spinning spin-ning
- boarding board-ing
- crying cry-ing
- sleeping sleep-ing
- marking mark-ing
- staying stay-ing
- begging beg-ging
- causing caus-ing
- steering steer-ing
- burning burn-ing
- sounding sound-ing
- hacking hack-ing
- leaning lean-ing
- wanting want-ing
- lining lin-ing
- mapping map-ping
- hiking hik-ing
- joining join-ing
- rolling roll-ing
- booking book-ing
- manning man-ning
- mounting mount-ing
- reaching reach-ing
- picking pick-ing
- pushing push-ing
- batting bat-ting
- skating skat-ing
- skiing ski-ing
- typing typ-ing
- checking check-ing
- crushing crush-ing
- inning in-ning
- polling poll-ing
- popping pop-ping
- raising rais-ing
- dragging drag-ging
- bidding bid-ding
- planting plant-ing
- signing sign-ing
- throwing throw-ing
- banning ban-ning
- handling han-dling
- sweeping sweep-ing
- splitting split-ting
- biting bit-ing
- chatting chat-ting
- drowning drown-ing
- grabbing grab-bing
- offspring off-spring
- seating seat-ing
- scoring scor-ing
- logging log-ging
- tapping tap-ping
- glowing glow-ing
- pleasing pleas-ing
- pulling pull-ing
- sampling sam-pling
- briefing brief-ing
- dwelling dwell-ing
- claiming claim-ing
- schooling school-ing
- struggling strug-gling
- scanning scan-ning
- surfing surf-ing
- trusting trust-ing
- blogging blog-ging
- coating coat-ing
- rubbing rub-bing
- shutting shut-ting
- texting text-ing
- coping cop-ing
- daring dar-ing
- quitting quit-ting
- chilling chill-ing
- coaching coach-ing
- lighting light-ing
- mourning mourn-ing
- sewing sew-ing
- slipping slip-ping
- bathing bath-ing
- bonding bond-ing
- flashing flash-ing
- greeting greet-ing
- speeding speed-ing
- stirring stir-ring
- swelling swell-ing
- tying ty-ing
- counting count-ing
- firing fir-ing
- treating treat-ing
- choosing choos-ing
- drafting draft-ing
- raging rag-ing
- staging stag-ing
- tasting tast-ing
- tempting tempt-ing
- tracking track-ing
- fleeing flee-ing
- stalking stalk-ing
- earning earn-ing
- healing heal-ing
- hiring hir-ing
- jumping jump-ing
- stealing steal-ing
- shaving shav-ing
- streaming stream-ing
- fading fad-ing
- forcing forc-ing
- forming form-ing
- pudding pud-ding
- sibling sib-ling
- thrilling thrill-ing
- blowing blow-ing
3 syllables 146
- anything an-y-thing
- everything ev-ery-thing
- following fol-low-ing
- according ac-cord-ing
- amazing a-maz-ing
- beginning be-gin-ning
- opening o-pen-ing
- including in-clud-ing
- becoming be-com-ing
- happening hap-pen-ing
- marketing mar-ket-ing
- increasing in-creas-ing
- offering of-fer-ing
- depending de-pend-ing
- exciting ex-cit-ing
- suffering suf-fer-ing
- wondering won-der-ing
- recording re-cord-ing
- outstanding out-stand-ing
- surrounding sur-round-ing
- annoying an-noy-ing
- programming pro-gram-ming
- publishing pub-lish-ing
- referring re-fer-ring
- upcoming up-com-ing
- ongoing on-go-ing
- concerning con-cern-ing
- accounting ac-count-ing
- surprising sur-pris-ing
- traveling trav-el-ing
- gathering gath-er-ing
- disgusting dis-gust-ing
- threatening threat-en-ing
- controlling con-trol-ling
- believing be-liev-ing
- existing ex-ist-ing
- demanding de-mand-ing
- financing fi-nanc-ing
- providing pro-vid-ing
- worrying wor-ry-ing
- promising prom-is-ing
- supporting sup-port-ing
- creating cre-at-ing
- affecting af-fect-ing
- computing com-put-ing
- regarding re-gard-ing
- listening lis-ten-ing
- belonging be-long-ing
- disturbing dis-turb-ing
- inspiring in-spir-ing
- questioning ques-tion-ing
- thanksgiving thanks-giv-ing
- remaining re-main-ing
- allowing al-low-ing
- broadcasting broad-cast-ing
- confusing con-fus-ing
- carrying car-ry-ing
- reasoning rea-son-ing
- receiving re-ceiv-ing
- compelling com-pel-ling
- convincing con-vinc-ing
- frustrating frus-trat-ing
- occurring oc-cur-ring
- revealing re-veal-ing
- varying var-y-ing
- packaging pack-ag-ing
- performing per-form-ing
- appealing ap-peal-ing
- limiting lim-it-ing
- modeling mod-el-ing
- networking net-work-ing
- reporting re-port-ing
- forgetting for-get-ting
- misleading mis-lead-ing
- trafficking traf-fick-ing
- returning re-turn-ing
- involving in-volv-ing
- resulting re-sult-ing
- committing com-mit-ting
- parenting par-ent-ing
- inviting in-vit-ing
- processing pro-cess-ing
- covering cov-er-ing
- featuring fea-tur-ing
- producing pro-duc-ing
- visiting vis-it-ing
- poisoning poi-son-ing
- repeating re-peat-ing
- agreeing a-gree-ing
- containing con-tain-ing
- depressing de-press-ing
- refreshing re-fresh-ing
- enjoying en-joy-ing
- entering en-ter-ing
- expecting ex-pect-ing
- studying stud-y-ing
- fundraising fund-rais-ing
- managing man-ag-ing
- admitting ad-mit-ting
- rendering ren-der-ing
- improving im-prov-ing
- kidnapping kid-nap-ping
- reducing re-duc-ing
- amusing a-mus-ing
- recycling re-cy-cling
- borrowing bor-row-ing
- forthcoming forth-com-ing
- accusing ac-cus-ing
- rewarding re-ward-ing
- transferring trans-fer-ring
- uprising up-ris-ing
- defending de-fend-ing
- imposing im-pos-ing
- preparing pre-par-ing
- attending at-tend-ing
- fulfilling ful-fil-ling
- recurring re-cur-ring
- finishing fin-ish-ing
- insulting in-sult-ing
- protecting pro-tect-ing
- unwilling un-will-ing
- attacking at-tack-ing
- intriguing in-tri-guing
- debating de-bat-ing
- decreasing de-creas-ing
- promoting pro-mot-ing
- attempting at-tempt-ing
- challenging chal-leng-ing
- editing ed-it-ing
- frightening fright-en-ing
- gardening gar-den-ing
- proceeding pro-ceed-ing
- removing re-mov-ing
- arguing ar-gu-ing
- focusing fo-cus-ing
- maintaining main-tain-ing
- suggesting sug-gest-ing
- applying ap-ply-ing
- assuming as-sum-ing
- describing de-scrib-ing
- discussing dis-cuss-ing
- explaining ex-plain-ing
- competing com-pet-ing
- comforting com-fort-ing
- exceeding ex-ceed-ing
- relating re-lat-ing
4 syllables 29
- interesting in-ter-est-ing
- understanding un-der-stand-ing
- engineering en-gi-neer-ing
- advertising ad-ver-tis-ing
- underlying un-der-ly-ing
- embarrassing em-bar-rass-ing
- operating op-er-at-ing
- encouraging en-cour-ag-ing
- corresponding cor-re-spond-ing
- fascinating fas-ci-nat-ing
- entertaining en-ter-tain-ing
- overwhelming o-ver-whelm-ing
- developing de-vel-op-ing
- considering con-sid-er-ing
- disappointing dis-ap-point-ing
- terrifying ter-ri-fy-ing
- satisfying sat-is-fy-ing
- conditioning con-di-tion-ing
- continuing con-tin-u-ing
- devastating dev-as-ta-ting
- representing rep-re-sent-ing
- monitoring mon-i-tor-ing
- positioning po-si-tion-ing
- awakening a-wak-en-ing
- undertaking un-der-tak-ing
- astonishing as-ton-ish-ing
- storytelling sto-ry-tell-ing
- restructuring re-struc-tur-ing
- irritating ir-ri-tat-ing
5 or more syllables 3
- manufacturing man-u-fac-tur-ing
- experiencing ex-pe-ri-enc-ing
- misunderstanding mis-un-der-stand-ing