Sound Search

Search words by how they sound, using this build's retained CMUdict pronunciations: find slant rhymes grouped by tightness, find words that fit a stress pattern you tap out, or find true alliteration by first sound rather than first letter.

Tap out a stress pattern

No beats yet — add DUM and da below.

DUM is a stressed syllable, da is unstressed, dum is secondary stress.

Word length

Must include letters

Exclude letters

Also rhymes with

Include rarer build tiers

Start from a word (finds its first sound)

Alliteration is matched on the first sound, not the first letter — phone alliterates with fantastic.

Or pick a first sound directly

Consonants

Vowels

Word length

Include rarer build tiers

About Sound Search

All three modes search pronunciations from the pinned CMUdict artifact in this data build (v1/2026.07-lexical.6). A word without a retained pronunciation never matches any sound constraint — its absence says nothing about how (or whether) it is pronounced. CMUdict primarily represents North American English, so stress, rhyme and first-sound facts can differ by dialect.

How the rhyme groups work

Perfect rhymes share the seed's full rhyme key — every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end of the word.
Multi-vowel slant rhymes are not perfect, but their last two or more vowel sounds match the seed's, compared within this build's fixed vowel families.
Assonance shares only the stressed-vowel nucleus family — a vowel echo without a matching ending.

Limitations

Rhyme grouping classifies each candidate by its primary retained pronunciation variant; the perfect-rhyme pool itself compares every retained variant.
Slant and assonance grouping follow a fixed, build-specific rule (vowel families plus voicing-collapsed endings). They are a deterministic approximation, not a general poetic-nearness judgement.
Stress patterns use digits per vowel sound: 1 primary, 0 unstressed, 2 secondary. A word matches when any retained variant's stress string equals the pattern exactly.
Result tiers are build-specific ranking bands from this data build, not universal usage claims, and very large candidate sets are scanned within a fixed budget (a truncation notice appears when that happens).