Rhyme Finder
Rhymes by sound, not spelling — plus the rhyme scheme of your lyrics.
Rhymes for
Rhyme scheme of a poem or song
Each line’s last word is compared by sound; lines that rhyme get the same letter.
About the Rhyme Finder
Type a word and get its rhymes, matched by how the words sound: “rough” rhymes with “stuff”, not with “though”. Pronunciations come from the Carnegie Mellon University Pronouncing Dictionary (about 125,000 words and names, General American English), so rhymes work on the last stressed syllable: “butterfly” rhymes with “sky”, and “education” with “dedication” on four syllables.
Results come in three kinds — perfect rhymes, near (slant) rhymes that sound close, and multi-syllable rhymes that match more than the last syllable — grouped by syllable count, with the most common words in bold. Below, paste a poem or song to mark its rhyme scheme (AABB, ABAB, ABCB…). Everything runs in your browser; the dictionary downloads once (about 340 KB) and then works offline.
How to use it
- Type a word or short phrase and press Find rhymes. If the word has more than one pronunciation (like “read”), pick the one you mean.
- Switch between Perfect, Near / slant and Multi-syllable. Click any word to find its rhymes in turn.
- Use Words to include to keep to common words, or to add names and rare words. Hide vulgar and offensive words is on by default.
- To check a poem or lyrics, paste it into Rhyme scheme; separate stanzas with blank lines.
Examples
Perfect: at, flat, hat, sat, that, bat … acrobat, diplomat (3 syllables)
Perfect: sky, fly, high, goodbye …
4 matching syllables: dedication, medication … · 2: nation, station
Near: line, mine, fine, sign, wine … (perfect: rhyme, climb, crime)
No perfect rhyme among common words; near: foreign, storage, porridge
There was an old man with a beard, Who said, “It is just as I feared! Two owls and a hen, Four larks and a wren, Have all built their nests in my beard!”
AABBA — limerick
Common uses
- Writing song lyrics, rap verses, poems, greeting-card verses and jingles.
- Finding a slant rhyme when no perfect rhyme exists (orange, silver, month).
- Teaching rhyme, syllables and rhyme schemes in class.
- Checking the rhyme scheme of a sonnet, ballad or limerick you are writing or studying.
Perfect, near and multi-syllable rhymes
Perfect rhymes have identical sounds from the last stressed vowel to the end of the word — “light”, “flight” and “moonlight” all end in /aɪt/. Vowels after the stressed one must also match in being stressed or not, so the rhythm fits.
Near (slant) rhymes keep the stressed vowel and change the sounds after it a little — consonants made the same way (m/n in “time/line”), voiced and voiceless pairs (t/d), or one extra consonant (“mine/mind”) — or keep the ending with a close vowel (“bit/beat”). The closest come first.
Multi-syllable rhymes are perfect rhymes that also share the vowels of the syllables before the rhyme: “education” and “dedication” match on e–a–ca–tion. They are grouped by how many syllables match.
How the rhyme scheme is marked
The last word of every line is looked up in the pronunciation dictionary. Lines whose last words rhyme perfectly get the same letter (A, B, C …); with Count slant rhymes on, close sounds join the group too and are marked ~. A word the dictionary does not know is matched by its spelling and marked ?. Recognised forms include couplets (AABB), alternate rhyme (ABAB), enclosed rhyme (ABBA), the ballad stanza (ABCB), the Rubaiyat stanza (AABA), the limerick (AABBA) and the Shakespearean, Petrarchan and Spenserian sonnets.
The pronunciation data
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary 0.7b (© Carnegie Mellon University, BSD licence) gives each word as ARPAbet phonemes with stress marks, shown here also in IPA. “Words to include” uses the SCOWL word lists by Kevin Atkinson, which grade English words from very common (size 10) to rare (size 70); words outside SCOWL — mostly names — appear only with Also names and rare words. Common contractions such as “don’t” and “I’m”, which those lists leave out, count as everyday words, and accented words are matched without accents (“café” as cafe).
Limitations
- Pronunciations are General American. Some rhymes differ in British English (for example “bath” and “math” rhyme in American English but not in British), and a few words have regional pronunciations that are not listed.
- Results are single words. A phrase you type is rhymed on its last stressed syllable, but multi-word rhymes such as “door hinge” for “orange” are not suggested.
- Very new words, slang and many brand names are not in the dictionary; the rhyme-scheme checker then falls back to spelling and marks those lines with ?.
- Old poems sometimes rhyme words whose pronunciation has changed (Shakespeare’s “temperate / date”); the checker uses modern pronunciation.
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Frequently asked questions
What rhymes with orange?
No common English word rhymes perfectly with “orange”. The closest slant rhymes found here are “foreign”, “storage” and “porridge”; songwriters also bend phrases such as “door hinge”.
Is “time” and “line” a rhyme?
It is a near (slant) rhyme: the stressed vowel /aɪ/ is the same, and /m/ and /n/ are both nasal consonants, so they sound close. A perfect rhyme for “time” is “rhyme”, “climb” or “crime”.
Why does “butterfly” rhyme with “sky” and not with “butter”?
A rhyme starts at the last stressed vowel. “Butterfly” has a secondary stress on “fly”, so its rhyme part is /aɪ/ — the same as “sky”.
Can it find rhymes for names?
Yes, for many names: choose Also names and rare words. The dictionary includes about 77,000 names and less common words.
Does it work offline?
Yes. After the first search the dictionary is stored by your browser, and rhymes and rhyme schemes work without a connection. Nothing you type is sent anywhere.