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Rhymes

by Alper Kara
Rhymes for the selected word, ranked the way poets use them. Works offline.
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Select a word, click Rhymes, and a submenu opens listing words that rhyme with it. Click one and it replaces the word in your line. Hold ⇧ Shift when clicking to copy it instead.

Everything is bundled in the extension. It works offline, it never touches the network, and nothing you select is sent anywhere — the extension has no network access at all.

Ranked for poetry, not for the web

The ordering is the whole point. A general rhyming dictionary ranks by how common a word is on the internet, which for fire gives you:

higher, prior, entire, require, buyer, supplier, identifier, amplifier

These lists are ranked instead by how often poets actually end a line on a word, measured across 3.1 million lines of verse:

desire, sire, higher, retire, require, choir, tire, attire, dire, mire, pyre

Function words are pushed to the back — you don't need that offered as the best rhyme for cat — and brand names, dialect spellings and web-corpus noise are filtered out.

ranked by web frequencyranked for poetry
nightsite, copyright, right, website, whitelight, sight, bright, right, white, might, delight
timecrime, prime, anytime, maritime, enzymecrime, rhyme, sublime, prime, climb, chime, thyme
seasee, free, tree, company, key, de, resee, free, tree, three, knee, bee, glee, flee

Near rhymes

Some words have no perfect rhyme at all: orange, autumn, month, silver, music. Below a divider, the submenu offers slant rhymes instead — orange gives fringe, tinge, hinge, cringe, twinge, lozenge.

By default these appear only when perfect rhymes are scarce. Set Near rhymes to Always if you want slant rhymes offered every time.

Settings

OptionDefaultWhat it does
Rhymes to list24How many entries the submenu holds.
Near rhymesWhen there are few perfect rhymesOr Always, or Never.

When there are more rhymes than fit, a Show all… item at the bottom shows the complete list in Large Type.

The button appears only when you select a single word, which keeps it out of the way the rest of the time.

How it works

Two words rhyme when their pronunciations match from the last primary stressed vowel onward, so understand rhymes with hand and happy with snappy. Near rhymes match from the last vowel, widened by one more phoneme when that ending is too short to mean anything — otherwise every -le word would "rhyme" with purple.

Primary stress matters: CMUdict marks the same word shape inconsistently (shadow SH AE1 D OW2 but follow F AA1 L OW0), and anchoring on secondary stress drops shadow, willow and meadow into the -ow group, where they wrongly rhyme with know and below.

The result is ~28,000 words in 3,525 perfect-rhyme groups and 2,036 near-rhyme groups, stored as plain text: one group per line, one word per token. A lookup is just finding the line the word sits on, which takes about a millisecond.

The index is built by a script in this repository, from the sources credited below, and the build is reproducible.

Credits

The rhyme data is derived from:

Changelog

  • 2026-09-18: Initial release.
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