Rhyming Dictionary
Coming in Phase 6 — once we have a proper phonetics dataset.
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Coming Soon — Phase 6
We're not shipping a fake one. Real rhyme matching needs phonetics, not letter matching.
Why this isn't built yet
A rhyming dictionary needs to know how words sound, not how they're spelled. THROUGH, BLUE, and SHOE all rhyme — and they share zero letters in common. TOUGH, COUGH, and BOUGH look the same — and they don't rhyme.
We could ship a quick "find words that end in the same letters" tool, and many sites do. But that's misleading. So we're holding off until we can do it right.
What "doing it right" means
For English, the gold standard is the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary — about 134,000 English words with their phonetic transcriptions in the ARPABET system. We can match the last syllable's stressed vowel + everything after it to find perfect rhymes, relax to find slant rhymes, and group by meter.
For other languages we'll need locale-specific equivalents:
- Spanish: RAE phonetic listings + open-source LibreLex
- French: Lexique.org with IPA transcriptions
- German: WikiLPP phonetic German pronouncing dictionary
- Italian: SAMPA-IT corpus
- Portuguese-BR: Aeiouadô open dataset
- Hindi, Indonesian, Turkish, Polish: per-locale evaluation
Per plan.md Section 6.9, we drop the rhyming game from any language without a real phonetics source. Better to be silent than wrong.
In the meantime
- Word Unscrambler — if you're trying to find a word that fits a meter, building from specific letters works.
- External resources: RhymeZone and B-Rhymes are excellent for English. We'll catch up — and beat them on multilingual coverage.
Subscribe to launch
We don't have email signup — that's deliberate. To know when this lands, check back in Phase 6 (months 4–6 of the roadmap) or follow updates in the site changelog.