Rhyming words
Type a word, and the words that end the same way appear, closest rhymes first.
Fewest final letters
Type at least two letters.
How it works
Rhymes are found by spelling, not by sound. A proper rhyming dictionary compares pronunciation, which is how “though” and “flow” turn out to rhyme while “though” and “rough” do not. Doing that needs a pronunciation dictionary for each language, and no free one covers all the languages here.
In the Germanic languages spelling follows sound closely enough for this to work in practice. But the tool misses rhymes that are spelled differently, and sometimes includes words that are spelled alike but said differently. Read the list as suggestions, not as an answer.
The groups show how many final letters a word shares with yours. Three or more usually carries a rhyme, while two is often just a similar sound at the end.
The buttons set how strict to be. Raise it to four letters and you get fewer but surer matches, which helps with long words.
Within each group the short words come first, since they are usually the ones people are after.
The index is split by the last two letters of a word, and the commonest endings by the last three as well, so only a small part is fetched at a time.
How the tool searches
The rhyme index is split by the last two letters of the words, with at most 2,000 words per ending, shortest first. Endings with more words are also split by the last three letters, with up to 5,000 words each, and the tool then fetches both. For every word with the same ending as yours, the tool counts how many letters it shares with yours from the end, and groups the words by that number. Words of the same length are in the alphabetical order of the list’s language, whatever language your browser uses.
The group that shares your whole word, meaning compounds such as daylight for light, is moved after the next group, because such words rhyme with themselves. For light the order is therefore 111 words ending in -ight (night, might, eight), then 59 ending in -light (flight, delight), then 69 sharing only -ght (fought, taught) and 17 sharing only -ht.
Edge case: the commonest endings are capped
The caps mean long words can still be missing for common endings. Of the words that share only the last two letters with yours, the tool shows just the 2,000 shortest, and 4 of the 395 English three-letter endings have more than 5,000 words. The list has 14,266 words ending in -ing, but the index holds only the 5,000 shortest, none longer than nine letters, so remembering never appears among the rhymes for sing. The 2,800 words ending in -ation, on the other hand, are all there: nation finds the other 2,799, information among them.
Spelling is not sound
The Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary defines a rhyme as a word that has the same sound, or ends with the same sound, as another word. The tool only compares spelling, so it cannot tell a true rhyme from a word that merely looks like one. Eight sits among the -ight words beside night, although it does not rhyme with light. Bite and kite, which do rhyme with light, never appear, because they end in -te and live in a different file.
Sources
- wordlist_swedish
- SALDO (Språkbanken Text)
- ENABLE
- English Speller Database (SCOWL)
- Norsk ordbank (Språkrådet, UiB)
- Det Centrale Ordregister
- german-wordlist
- OpenTaal
- paroleitaliane
- Morphalou 3.1 (ATILF)
- LibreOffice pt_BR (VERO)
- SJP.PL (LibreOffice pl_PL)
- Rospell (LibreOffice ro)
- Wiktionary (kaikki.org)
- Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary – rhyme