About Us

Mission Statement

• No longer is this a general reference site for rhymes but a teaching, learning and educational website. ~ A Submitted Suggestion by Webb, MD ~

*Beta* Mission: To be the most informative rhyming dictionary on the web! We aren't yet 100% accurate!

What Is WhatRhymesWith.com?

What Rhymes With (WhatRhymesWith.com) by James A Cordeiro and You Go Media is an online rhyming dictionary with every word, every rhyme, every rhyme type and every rhyme scheme in one place. It is still a work in progress and I will continue to work effortlessly to complete this for you. Please provide any and all suggestions you can to support@whatrhymeswith.com.

Top Question: How Do Votes Work

*Beta: Voting system is a work in progress and is subject to change.*

Currently we need votes to help identify incorrect rhymes, once the connection has 100 user votes, if the rhyme has 30% or less Yes votes, we will place the rhyme into an "unsure" category. So, if 30/100 users vote No we will assume it needs validating. If after 100 unique user votes, the rhyme shows 0%, we will remove the connection and list as "false positive" for our A.I system. The reason we allow so many votes before removal is because I have found most people don't know there is more than one type of rhyme, most people believe "Love does not rhyme with Move" because they don't necessarily have a similar sound when spoke. This, is incorrect! Love does rhyme with Move if you are searching for "Eye Rhymes", thus, the extra feature for voting rhyme type and rhyme scheme. Sooner or later, we will have one beautiful arrangement of over One Million words and rhymes. So, by voting, you will see whatrhymeswith.com become an amazing tool for finding those "perfect rhymes" you may be searching for.

Why Did I Allow Non-English Words?

When it comes to poetry and rhyming of words, sometimes by knowing the definition of a non-english word, it can fit beautifully to any rhyme. Since creativity is a part of poetry, you may want to use a non english word. This type of rhyme is called a macaronic rhyme. I encourage you to submit any word, as long as it is family friendly and contains alphanumeric characters.

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Since it cost money to keep developers and programmers working and a team of authors who gave the website a start, I had to employ some sort of monetization for whatrhymeswith.com - I chose Google Adsense for the relevance and targeting of the advertisements. Although it generates some revenue, it is not nearly enough to cover costs of developing and maintaining this website. Any donations, or advertising to replace the Adsense is extremely appreciated. I want to ensure when you visit this website, you are not leaving through non-relevant links and advertisements which is why Adsense has been implemented for current monetization.

How I Calculate The Rhymes

I use many calculations to determine how words are related to each other. I have algorithms checking words in our database every second by comparing two words for similar sounds, length, starting and ending characters, middle and containing characters. We also calculate using the Levenshtein formula. The Levenshtein distance is defined as the minimal number of characters to replace, insert or delete to transform one word into another (Example: Orange vs Arrange - The value of the Levenshtein calculation is 2.). The complexity of the algorithm is O(m*n), where n and m are the length of word 1 and word 2. Another calculation is calculating the perecentage of similar characters in a string from start to finish, and when the characters are shuffled. Every word has a value, we are determined to retrieve those values.

Unlike most rhyming websites, whatrhymeswith.com differs by ensuring you don't just get one type of rhyme for any particular word (ex. eye/bye which is a perfect rhyme). We promise to provide you results for each and every rhyme type so you are not lost in a perfect rhyme world. These rhyme types include:

• # Assonant - Rhyming of similar vowels but different consonants. Example: dip/limp
• # Consonant - Similar consonants but different vowels. Example: limp/lump
• # Eye - Based on spelling and not on sound. Example: love/move
• # Feminine (double, triple, extra-syllable, multi-syllable, extended) - Differing beginnings followed by multiple rhyming syllables. Example: drinking/shrinking
• # Identical - Uses the same word to rhyme with itself however may hold a different meaning.
• # Light Line - Rhyming of a stressed syllable with a secondary stress. Example: mat/combat
• # Macaronic - Rhyming of two words with different languages.
• # Masculine - Differing consonant sounds ending with identically stressed syllables. Example: report/support
• # Near - (half, slant, approximate, off, oblique) Final consonant sounds the same but initial consonants and vowel sounds are different. Example: tought/sat
• # Perfect - (exact, true, full) Begins with different sounds and end with the same. Example: pie/die
• # Rich - (French for rime riche) Word that rhymes with its homonym. Example: blue/blew
• # Scarce - Rhyming of words with limited rhyming alternatives. Example: whisp/lisp
• # Wrenched

My Mission

My mission is to ensure you have access to the most educational rhyming resource available for any word. You will find an answer to any rhyme for any word through proven linguistics analysis, thus, never leaving whatrhymeswith.com without an answer. We will acheive this mission.

What Is In The Future?

I plan to create the most thouroughly investigative, programmatic algorithm to analyze each word, phrase and text collection into the most indepth word analysis tool available on the web. This technology is not new, but, the alogorithm has taken me hundreds of hours, many sleepless nights, and an extremely intelligent team of complex minds who really helped me out to get the right collection of knowledge into one central information centre called whatrhymeswith.com - I am working extremely hard to get this project complete :)

What Do I Analyze

Although I am working to go far into the world of linguistics, many forms combat eachother. I will collect this data, and provide this to you for your own analysis. And in order to fullfil my mission, I am excited to indicate that I will analyze many forms of speech, and used many complex minds to determine how to analyse and interpret our indepth research.

To find words in relation to eachother through rhymes and linguistics, even theoretical linguistic technology. I have gone so far indepth for each word, you will find answers relating to your rhyme for the following linguistics, some are not yet active but are in progress:

• Theoretical linguistics
• Cognitive linguistics
• Generative linguistics
• Quantitative linguistics
• Phonology
• Morphology
• Syntax
• Lexis
• Semantics
• Pragmatics
• Descriptive linguistics
• Anthropological linguistics
• Comparative linguistics
• Historical linguistics
• Etymology
• Phonetics
• Sociolinguistics
• Applied linguistics
• Computational linguistics
• Forensic linguistics
• Language acquisition
• Language assessment
• Language development
• Language education
• Linguistic prescription
• Linguistic anthropology
• Neurolinguistics
• Psycholinguistics
• Stylistics

Theoretical linguistics

Cognitive linguistics

In linguistics, cognitive linguistics (CL) refers to the branch of linguistics that interprets language in terms of the concepts, sometimes universal, sometimes specific to a particular tongue, which underlie its forms. It is thus closely associated with semantics but is distinct from psycholinguistics, which draws upon empirical findings from cognitive psychology in order to explain the mental processes that underlie the acquisition, storage, production and understanding of speech and writing.

Cognitive linguistics is characterized by adherence to three central positions. First, it denies that there is an autonomous linguistic faculty in the mind; second, it understands grammar in terms of conceptualization; and third, it claims that knowledge of language arises out of language use.

Generative linguistics

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Quantitative linguistics

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Phonology

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Morphology

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Syntax

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Lexis

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Semantics

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Pragmatics

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Descriptive linguistics

Anthropological linguistics

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Comparative linguistics

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Historical linguistics

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Etymology

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Phonetics

Phonetics (from the Greek: phone, "sound, voice") is a branch of linguistics that comprises the study of the sounds of human speech. It is concerned with the physical properties of speech sounds (phones): their physiological production, acoustic properties, auditory perception, and neurophysiological status. Phonology, on the other hand, is concerned with abstract, grammatical characterization of systems of sounds.

We have been working on a complex algorithm to crack the matching code of phonetics with the english language for your rhyming purposes. You will soon see a phonetics symbol next to each word matched with a phonetic connection.

Sociolinguistics

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Applied linguistics

Computational linguistics

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Forensic linguistics

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Language acquisition

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Language assessment

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Language development

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Language education

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Linguistic prescription

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Linguistic anthropology

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Neurolinguistics

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Psycholinguistics

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Stylistics

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I have also obtained some information in relation to rhyming from the following websites.

1. Berry, Mary: "Evovae", Grove Music Online ed. L. Macy
2. Fun with Words – Consecutive letters
3. Google Book Search results for "indivisibilities"
4. Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases, 1911 Edition
5. Fatsis, Stefan (2006-10-26). "830! How a carpenter got the highest Scrabble score ever. - By Stefan Fatsis - Slate Magazine". Slate.com. http://www.slate.com/id/2152255/?nav=ais.
6. The Scrabble Omnibus, Gyles Brandreth, ISBN 0-00-218081-2
7. Record for the Highest Scoring Scrabble Move at scrabulizer.com.
8. A man of my words: reflections on the English language, Richard Lederer, ISBN 0312317859
9. From the television programme QI
10. From the Abergavenney Tourist Guide
11. "Letters". Time (magazine). May 24, 1971. http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,905063-2,00.html. Retrieved 2008-02-09. "Sondheim would, and did: To find a rhyme for silver Or any "rhymeless" rhyme Requires only will, verBosity and time."
12. "Some observations on OED's March 2007 release of revised entries"