Rhyme finder.

What counts as a rhyme here

This tool finds perfect (full) rhymes: two words rhyme when they sound the same from their last stressed vowel to the end. In practice it takes each word's first pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, finds the last primary-stressed vowel (or the last secondary-stressed or final vowel if there is none), and compares the sounds from that vowel to the end. Words with the same ending sounds are listed together, and the word you typed is left out of its own list.

Rhyme scheme labels

For a poem, the last word of each non-empty line is looked up and lines whose end words rhyme share a letter in order of first appearance, so a limerick reads AABBA and alternating lines read ABAB. For example, "light" has 65 perfect rhymes in the bundled word list, including alight, alright, bight, bite. A word that is not in the dictionary subset is compared with other lines by its last three letters and marked as a spelling guess.

Limits

Pronunciation depends on accent, so some pairs that rhyme for you will not match (and the reverse). The dictionary records one pronunciation for most words, near rhymes (slant rhymes such as "home" and "stone") are deliberately not listed, and the list only contains words in the bundled subset, which favours words found in a standard word list. The Wikipedia page on limericks describes AABBA as lines 1, 2 and 5 rhyming and lines 3 and 4 sharing a different rhyme.

Dictionary credit. Syllable counts and rhymes use a subset of the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, Copyright (C) 1993-2015 Carnegie Mellon University (BSD-style licence, github.com/cmusphinx/cmudict). The dictionary is provided "as is" without warranty; its maintainers say it contains errors, omissions and inconsistencies.

Sources (each opened October 8, 2026): CMU Pronouncing Dictionary (cmusphinx/cmudict, README and LICENSE); Wikipedia, Limerick (poetry).