Dictionary of Rhymes
This dictionary lists rhymes for a given word. In addition to single-word rhymes, such as pliable and viable, it can also suggest rhymes consisting of multiple words, including expressions, such as industry and Christmas tree. It identifies a word’s perfect rhymes and distinguishes these from its imperfect ones. For two words to be perfect rhymes, their vowels with primary stress must be identical in sound, as should all sounds that follow the vowels with primary stress. Additionally, the onset (the consonant sound preceding the primary-stressed vowel) must be different. For example, the words revive [ri-VIVE] and deprive [di-PRIVE] are perfect rhymes.
The dictionary of rhymes is also able to suggest words that do not exactly rhyme, but which share other phonetic similarities such as assonance or consonance.
The following image shows rhymes for the noun flower.
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The main panel displays the results, which are arranged in three columns and divided into sections that combine all words with the same series of final phonemes. This phonetic ending is shown in green text and is enclosed in square brackets. The number of results is indicated next to it. Sections are arranged by number of identical phonemes in descending order.
The first column of each section lists all the words with the phonetic ending in question. Each word is shown in the relevant inflected form, followed by an abbreviated indication of its syntactic category. Clicking this column’s header alternates between ascending and descending alphabetical sorting.
The second column shows the phonetic transcription of the word using either phonetic respelling or the International Phonetic Alphabet. Clicking the transcription will play its pronunciation, preceded by the pronunciation of the word you are looking up. Clicking the column header alternates between four methods of sorting the results in each section. The first two methods follow an inverse phonetic order: they begin at the end of the word and sort the results according to the order of phonemes denoted by the phonetic alphabet (whose order resembles normal alphabetical order), and ascend or descend respectively. The third and fourth methods sort the results by the number of syllables, either ascending or descending.
The third column indicates the relative frequency of the word as a horizontal bar of proportionate length. Clicking the column header alternates between ascending and descending sorting by frequency.
By default, the results are presented in descending order of frequency.
To give a better overview of each section, only the first five results of each are displayed initially. If there are more than five, the list ends with the grey text and x others…, which can be clicked to reveal all the results. When the full list is displayed, click Reduce to 5 results to return to the original view. Additionally, each section is preceded by a hide/show chevron that collapses the list beneath.
If there is a particularly large number of results, the last section may be followed by More results…. Clicking on this shows all of the results.
The hide/show chevron to the left of the title bar collapses the lists for all sections, leaving just the titles visible. This condensed view can be useful when results are divided into many different sections, for example, if you want to browse through all the perfect, imperfect and near rhymes for a long word.
The upper section of the right-hand panel shows the definition of the selected word.