This weekend I was listening to an interview with Stephen Sondheim on public radio. He commented that a rhyming dictionary was one of the key tools that he used for creating lyrics for his musicals.
Has anyone created a tool that accepts a word as input and returns a list of rhyming words?
There are several online rhyming dictionaries like Data Muse with an API that returns a list of rhyming words:
https://www.datamuse.com/api/
Possibly this could be used to create a tool in Snap!
Of course, there may also be ways to do this entirely in Snap!
Thoughts?
Those six words are all one syllable. Doesn't that dictionary think that "Mandalay," for example, rhymes with "day"?
Would could get the community to build a library of words for you. (Of course make it so only people you trust can do it)
@bh I haven't full explored the possibilities of Data Muse, but there are a number of switches that can be used to shape output - the number of syllables and other parameters, etc.
I can create a database for this.
OK, done. Snap! 6.9.2 Build Your Own Blocks
If anybody wants to add to the database, just post something like this:
RhymingWord1A RhymingWord2A RhymingWord3A
RhymingWord1B RhymingWord2B RhymingWord3B
MAKE SURE TO MAKE IT IN A CODE BOX LIKE ABOVE!!
The following script generates rhyming words that are sent to the console:
This is the output that results:
How can a JavaScript variable (such as "response" in the example above) be imported as a variable in Snap!
For me at least, "fretful" doesn't rhyme with "let phil".
Not that useful for a demo 
"blockify" result
The dictionary might not have that word in it.
Maybe a JSON pretty-printer?
@dardoro OK, using your suggestion, I'm getting rhyming words as output:
However, the way in which I'm achieving this is a kind of brute force approach. (Give someone a hammer and everything looks like a nail.)
Is there a more elegant way to accomplish this or is this a reasonable approach?
Yes:
P.S. who said "orange" didn't rhyme with anything?:
(I would add "cringe" and "hinge")
P.P.S.
