McGill English Dictionary of Rhyme

McGill English Dictionary of Rhyme

A rhyming dictionary with over 40,000 rhyme words, allowing search by word or syllable for writers and language enthusiasts.

What is McGill English Dictionary of Rhyme?

The McGill English Dictionary of Rhyme is an extensive rhyming dictionary designed to help writers find rhymes for their poems, lyrics, raps, and more. First published in 1982 by former McGill University English professor Brian Holtz, this dictionary has become a standard reference for rhyme in the English language.

With over 40,000 rhyme sounds and 145,000 words, the McGill Rhyme Dictionary allows you to search rhymes by either the full word or just the syllable you need to rhyme. So you can look up rhymes for words like "love" or "ation." It returns various rhyme types including perfect, slant, weak/unstressed, assonance, consonance and more. The dictionary indexes rhyme sounds by where the emphasis falls in the word, since rhymes depend on stressed syllables.

The McGill Rhyming Dictionary is optimized for writers. It omits obscure, archaic or offensive words that rhymers wouldn't use. The search results emphasize commonly-rhymed words. You can also filter rhymes by number of syllables, which helps match rhyme schemes. The dictionary displays full phonetic transcriptions of each rhyme sound using the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA).

Overall, if you write poems, lyrics, raps, jingles or anything else that needs good rhymes, the McGill English Rhyming Dictionary is designed to help you instantly brainstorm the rhyme sounds you need.

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