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A rhyming dictionary that searches by sound, not spelling

July 3, 2026 · 4 min read · for the poets - so naturally, it rhymes

We built a tool for finding rhyme,
and prose here felt like petty crime -
so every claim this page will make
arrives in verse, for rhyming's sake.

The problem: spelling lies

For English spelling loves to lie:
colonel, kernel - don't ask why.
Through and threw walk hand in hand
while cough and though refuse to stand.
Rhyme was never letters matched -
rhyme is sound, with stress attached.

Yet every rhyming site you've tried
keeps all the sound locked up inside:
you type a word, you get a list,
no dial to turn, no slant to fit.
The layer where the rhymes are made
stays hidden from the writer's trade.

The fix: hand the writer the sounds

Technical Rhymer hands them back:
look up a word, its sounds unpack -
orange comes out AO R AH N JH, strange,
(which nearly rhymes with door hinge - range!)
Then keep the tail and cut the front,
and search: the engine does the hunt.
Each word that ends in sounds the same
comes ranked by everyday-use fame -
the words you'd sing sit up on top,
the crossword bait can wait, then drop.

A star means these, in this succession;
a pipe waives ordering's oppression.
Ends-with, starts-with, anywhere -
you set the anchors; search plays fair.

Words where rhymes repeat inside
(rat-a-tat, bona fide)
get times-two badges, their own shelf:
a double rhyme announces itself.

Flip fuzzy on for slanted play:
a T can pass for K that way
(the mouth agrees they're nearly kin),
but T-for-D has voicing in -
so that stays out. The vowels? They stay:
the vowel is the rhyme. It gets its way.

No need to learn notation cold:
a phoneme keyboard, plainly told -
each key one sound, one sample word:
tap odd, tap cow, compose what's heard.

There's an AI filter, free to call -
no key, no signup, none of that at all.
Searching EH ZH ER with pirates in your head?
It keeps your treasure, sinks the rest instead.

It learned the decade's dialect:
ten thousand slang terms, all vote-checked,
two thousand words the twenties grew -
so rizz has rhymes, and doomscroll too.
(Their sounds are guessed by a machine;
we badge them so the books stay clean.)

Your query lives in the address bar -
send the link; it travels far.
Your settings stick from trip to trip,
and no tracking cookie makes the trip.
The whole design, in earnest laid,
is on the about page we made.

The badaboom part

We built it all in Claude Code chat -
the search, the sounds, the data, stat.
And when it stood, we didn't host,
configure, zip, upload, or boast.
We typed one sentence, hit return:

"Hey Claude - publish my site with the runcabin.com MCP."

Badaboom: a live address,
the fifteen megs of sound, no stress;
a real domain one checkout later
(a link we clicked - no dashboard, no waiter),
then DNS and certs were laid.
No ticket filed. No sysadmin paid.
The agent shipped it, end to end -
that's the connector, poet-friend.

Questions, answered in couplets

Is Technical Rhymer free?

Completely - no account, no card, no fee;
the AI filter's also free
(it runs behind a rate-limited gate,
so no one's API key is used as bait).

How is it different from a normal rhyming dictionary?

A normal tool returns a list;
this hands you sounds that you can twist -
the tails, the patterns, the repeats:
the kitchen, not the menu's sheets.

Does it know modern slang?

Ten thousand terms the votes hold dear,
two thousand coined in five short years -
their sounds machine-approximated, badged as such,
so rizz can rhyme without a crutch.

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Related reading: how to publish a website from Claude · what an AI-editable website is