A Rhyming Dictionary Written by Someone Who Needed One
rhymehamster.com · Free, no login · September 2026
Most online rhyming dictionaries are built on the same bloated, computer-generated list — there’s no way to tell a real word from a useless one, or a killer rhyme from a near miss. RhymeHamster is different: perfect rhymes are checked by an actual human, while slant rhymes sit on their own adjustable dial, only there if you want them.
RhymeHamster’s stash is “only” 115,000 words, a fraction of the 300,000-plus that popular sites advertise, and every one of them is worth considering. We cut the gibberish used only in Scrabble and pub quizzes — “sporange rhymes with orange!” — and we put that room to better use: ten thousand modern words, phrases, names, places and brands that older rhyming dictionaries ignore. It’s all designed to provide you real rhymes, real fast, all at the moment you need them. We’ve also added things no other site has: a true Internal Rhyme tool that finds rhymes hiding inside longer words, Wildcard Rhymes to focus on specific sounds and Stretch Rhymes for deliberate near-misses that still sing.
Perfect Rhymes (Always)
Perfect rhymes for “moon” on a laptop, and “phone” on a phone.
Slant Rhymes (Sometimes)
Every perfect rhyme on RhymeHamster is checked by ear, but occasionally a near miss is exactly what a line needs. Drag the dial right and slant rhymes join the list live, set in italics so it is always clear which is which.
Three Things No Other Rhyming Site Has
Rhymes hiding inside a word, guessed from half a word, or invented outright — ways of finding a rhyme no other dictionary even attempts.
Internal Rhymes
Rhymes do not only live at the end of a word. Click a headword and RhymeHamster walks through every piece hiding inside it, one at a time — front, middle or back — opening a whole rhyme list for just that piece, on the spot.
Wildcard Rhymes
Free a letter — any letter — and every sound in it turns into a wildcard. RhymeHamster hunts down every word that fits the new shape, in real time.
Stretch Rhymes
When the real rhymes run out, or there just are not enough of them, RhymeHamster invents a few more anyway — not real words, and never pretending to be. Stretch Rhymes sit collapsed at the bottom of the page, there for the writer who wants a nudge rather than a dead end.
Not words. Not rhymes. Just something to bounce off of when nothing real will do — and if a stretch rhyme ever gets out of hand, well, you can always track it, whack it and shellac it.
Daily Games
Coming SoonComing soon to RhymeHamster: a new rhyming word game every day, built on the same rhyme engine the hamster uses — Hinky Pinky and Mission: Ignition are up first.
“I’m Jeremy Desmon, a musical theater bookwriter and lyricist. For twenty years I’ve taught a writing workshop at Princeton, focused on musicals and songwriting. RhymeHamster began as a tool I built for myself, and my students liked it so much that I opened it up to everyone.”
