A rhyme and rhythm dictionary that matches by sound rather than by spelling. Made by ConjureDSP.
Type a word or phrase and you get back words and phrases with the same vowel sounds and the same rhythm. Type a rhythm on its own — 100, dactyl, iambic pentameter — and you get back anything with that rhythm. The two can be combined. Results are ranked rather than filtered, so a near-miss appears below the exact matches instead of vanishing.
Pronunciations come from the Carnegie Mellon Pronouncing Dictionary. Each word is reduced to its sequence of vowel sounds, each with its stress, and everything is matched over that skeleton. Consonants never block a match and word boundaries do not matter, which is why cat matches back, man and have as readily as hat, and why a phrase such as let me be is a legal query: it is simply its words' vowels laid end to end. Unstressed vowels are treated as blurring toward the neutral uh that English gives them in speech, which is how prosody reaches onto me.
Sound alone is not enough: plenty of vowel-perfect combinations are not English. So the multi-word results are drawn from a body of phrases people actually write. The Source setting chooses which — film and television subtitles, public-domain literature, or Wikipedia — and each phrase is judged by how much more often its words occur together than chance would predict. Every phrase the source recorded is a candidate and every one of them is scored, so a search is complete: there is no timeout and no sampling, and the same query returns the same page every time. The trade is that a phrase nobody has written down cannot come back; in exchange, everything the source does hold is reachable.
Two smaller rules follow from matching by sound. A singular and its plural are one result, because they differ by a consonant the matcher does not hear. And a word that may be said more than one way is matched every way it can be said, so because is found whether it is said bi-KAWZ or bi-KUHZ.
ConjureRhyme does not use generative AI. Every result is a word or phrase from the dictionary or from one of the sources, ranked by arithmetic over its sounds and its usage. Nothing is invented.