Rhyming Dictionaries
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Oxford Rhyming Dictionary - Hugely comprehensive
and completely up to date, the Oxford Rhyming
Dictionary is the ultimate rhymer's companion. This
dictionary is simple and straightforward to use: you
locate the word you need in the index, and are
referred to the place in the main text where you
will find the words that rhyme with it.
Rhyming Dictionaries
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Alcor Rhyming Dictionaries - Online rhyming
dictionaries in Spanish, French, Italian,
Portuguese, Romanian, and German.
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AnalogX - Rhyme - A rhyming program. Knows over
100,000 words. It can rhyme words forward,
backwards, and with matching syllable counts.
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Lexical FreeNet - Allows you to search for
rhymes and relationships between words and concepts.
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Rhymesaurus - Windows 95, 98, ME, NT and 2000
Software. Free trial version available for download.
Rhyming dictionary and other lexical tools.
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Semantic Rhyming Dictionary - Rhyming dictionary
and thesaurus: rhymes, near rhymes, homophones
synonyms, and semantic siblings of English words.
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Word Central - Student dictionary and rhyming
dictionary online at Merriam-Webster's website.
Daily Buzzword by subscription.
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WriteExpress Online Rhyming Dictionary - Online
dictionary for poetry and songwriting.
Oxford Rhyming Dictionary
Aspiring poets or lyricists can
rejoice in the publication of this work, which lists
more than 85,000 words and also includes proper nouns,
names, places, and trademarked brands. The dictionary is
based on the Oxford Dictionary of Pronunciation for
Current English (2001), which was written by Clive
Upton, and the rhymes reflect current British-English
pronunciations.
Anyone who has tried to use a rhyming
dictionary with no knowledge of phonetics has
undoubtedly been frustrated by the experience. Despite
directions for usage, these resources can still be quite
complicated. The Oxford volume makes it much easier to
find rhymes, because in lieu of phonetics, it is based
on an easy-to-use index.
To find a rhyme, the user needs merely
to look up a word in the index and go to the numeric
section indicated. There, the word will be grouped with
similar-sounding words, and the reader can browse
through that section to find other close rhymes. This
work is so expansive that readers should expect to find
most commonly used words. The authors try to keep
up-to-date with current language and to that end include
such words as email and CD-ROM.
This resource can be helpful to those
writing poetry, songs, and jingles and also will appeal
to word lovers in general. Though it is based on
British-English pronunciation, American English is not
so different as to render it ineffective. Recommended
for all high-school, academic, and public libraries.
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