Rhyming dictionary
Finding a rhyme is not only finding two words that sound alike. The right rhyme must also respect the sense, the rhythm and the intention of the text.
Ilena builds rhyme search directly into your writing environment, beside the definitions, synonyms, antonyms, analysis tools and versions of your text.
Try Ilena’s corpus below. Enter a word and see the first rhymes available, free — no account and nothing to install.
Rich rhymes
Three shared phonemes or more. Strong, precise, often very musical.
Exact rhymes (perfect)
Two shared phonemes. The classic rhyme, the one the ear expects.
Assonance
The vowels answer each other without making a perfect rhyme. An echo rather than a certainty.
Near rhymes (slant)
Close enough to work on the ear, free enough that the line never sounds forced.
On telling these four apart, and on the internal rhyme none of them covers, read types of rhymes.
The rhyme serves the line, not the other way round
A rich rhyme is not always the right one. A true word that rhymes poorly beats a hollow word that rhymes perfectly — which is why the kinds are shown side by side rather than ranked best to worst. To choose between them, our guide on choosing rhymes takes the time this page does not.
Searching without leaving the text
Here, as in any other rhyme finder, every search takes you away from your line. In Ilena the rhymes open beside the line you are writing, with its definition, its synonyms and its syllable count — and the text moves only if you decide it does.
For the song as much as the poem
The corpus answers in French, English and Spanish, and the three live in one account. What changes from one language to the next is not only the vocabulary: it is what counts as a rhyme, and each language is read by its own tradition.
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