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- This article is about a type of reference work used in composing poetry. For the special type of Chinese phonological dictionary, see Rime dictionary.
Page from the only extant manuscript copy of the 14th-century rhyming dictionary of Chinese in the 'Phags-pa script (Měnggǔ Zìyùn 蒙古字韻). Courtesy Wikimedia Commons.
A rhyming dictionary is a specialist dictionary designed for use in writing poetry and lyrics. In a rhyming dictionary, words are categorized into equivalence classes that consist of words which rhyme with one another. They will also typically support several different kinds of rhymes, often synonyms, and possibly also alliteration as well.
Because rhyming dictionaries are based on pronunciation, they are difficult to compile. Words and rhyming patterns change their pronunciation over time and between dialects. Rhyming dictionaries for Old English, Elizabethan poetry, or Standard English would have quite different content.
As rhyming dictionaries arrange the whole language according to its word terminations, they can be useful in solving crossword puzzles.
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- What is a rhyming dictionary? at WiseGeek.
Online rhyming dictionaries[]
- Alcor Software rhyming dictionaries in English, Latin, Spanish, French, German, and 15 other languages.
- A Compact Rhyming Dictionary. London: Routledge, 191?; New York: Dutton, 191?.
- The Complete Rhyming Dictionary, and Poet's Craft Book edited by Clement Wood (1888-1950). Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1936.
- Rhymebrain – Rhyme any word, even made up ones
- RhymeIt
- Rhymer
- RhymeZone
- The Rhyming Dictionary of the English Language by J. Walker (1732-1807) revised by J. Longmuir (1803-1883). London: Routledge, 1904; New York: Dutton, 1904.
- What rhymes with?
- WikiRhymer
- WriteExpress Online Rhyming Dictionary for poetry or songwriting.
Downloadable rhyming dictionaries[]
- McGill Rhyming Dicitonary and VersePerfect 2.0 (app)
- Poet and Know It! free rhyming dictionary (app).
- Etc.
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