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A rhyme finder returns the words that end in the same sound as yours. This one matches on pronunciation, not spelling: every entry with a transcription in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary carries the phonemes from its last stressed vowel onward as a rhyme key, and two words rhyme when their keys match. There are 22,528 such keys across 35,490 transcribed entries.
Type a word. Its rhymes appear here, grouped by how many syllables they run to.
English spelling and English pronunciation parted company several centuries ago, and rhyme lives entirely on the pronunciation side. THROUGH, BLUE, SHOE and TOO all end in the same sound and share no ending in writing. ROUGH and THOUGH share four letters at the end and do not rhyme at all. Any tool that matches on the last few letters gets both of those wrong.
So the matching is done on phonemes. The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary gives a transcription for 35,490 of the entries here; from each one the corpus takes the phonemes running from the last stressed vowel to the end of the word and stores them as a rhyme key. LIGHT and KITE both reduce to the key AYT. Words with the same key rhyme, and there are 22,528 distinct keys in the corpus.
Starting at the last stressed vowel rather than the last vowel is what makes the result match an ear. A rhyme has to carry the beat: HAPPY and SNAPPY rhyme on two syllables, not on the final -y alone.
Rhymes arrive grouped by syllable count, shortest group first, with the commonest words at the top of each group. The five-segment meter beside each answer is that word’s commonness band, measured against a frequency corpus of everyday English — a rhyme your reader has to look up is not a rhyme you can use, and the meter is the fastest way to see which is which.
Up to 300 rhymes come back in one request. Common endings run well past that, and when the list is capped the tool says so and reports the true total; the full set for any word lives on its own rhyme page. Every answer also links to its dictionary entry, where you can read its senses and see its stress marked.
Look up a word to see its syllable line, IPA transcription and respelling in full.
Pronunciations, stress marks and rhyme keys come from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, which is distributed under a BSD 2-clause licence. Definitions and word relations come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness bands come from a frequency corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.