If you’re into song writing, then you’d know the importance of a good rhyming dictionary to refer to when you’re stuck with words that seem well…unrhymeable. I’ve already covered a post on VersePerfect – a free word processor for songwriters and poets with its own built-in rhyming dictionary. However, if you’re looking for standalone rhyming dictionaries, here are 4 cool options:
Rhymer gives you End Rhymes (blue/shoe), Last Syllable Rhymes (timber/harbor), Double Rhymes (conviction/prediction), Triple Rhymes (frightening/brightening), Beginning Rhymes (physics/fizzle) and First Syllable Rhymes (carrot/caring). All options are neatly explained on the home page itself.
Rhyme Brain claims to rhyme any word. Just enter the word and click ‘rhyme’ to get rhyming options. The results are not always pretty (A search for ‘love’ gives options like ‘radiosensitive’, ‘administrative’, ‘procrastinative’). It also has an ‘alliterate’ feature, which doesn’t seem to work when I tried it though.
B-Rhymes is what you need when you’re looking for false rhymes. It helps you find near sounding words, so you don’t always have a line ending with ‘sing’ followed by a line ending with ‘king’ - basically helps to avoid clichés. B-Rhymes also provides portability through its free i-Phone and Android apps.
RhymeZone is more than a rhyming dictionary. This online tool also helps you find synonyms, antonyms, definitions, homophones, similar sounding words, consonants, related words, words with similar spellings, words with matching letters, kids-friendly pictures and occurrences of words in Shakespeare's plays and poems.
Have you used these resources for your songwriting? Any other cool option that I missed?
