How the rhyme sound is worked out
English spelling is unreliable, so this tool uses a rule rather than a pronunciation dictionary: the rhyme of a word is everything from its last vowel sound to the end.
light→ -ight, so it rhymes with night, bright, fight.make→ the final silent "e" is dropped before matching, giving -ake, so it rhymes with take, shake, awake.tree→ -ee, so it rhymes with free, see, agree.
This is a spelling rule, and English has plenty of words that break it — love and move look like they should rhyme and do not. Treat the results as a shortlist to read aloud, not as a verdict.
The best way to write a rhyme is to say both words out loud. A list gets you candidates; your ear makes the final call.
Why rhyming is a memory trick
Rhyme is a retrieval cue: it gives your brain a second handle to grab an idea by. That is why "thirty days hath September" survives in your head decades after you stopped needing it, and why advertising slogans lean on rhyme so heavily.
The same mechanism is at work in Wordle — each guess is a retrieval attempt, and the colour feedback tells you how close you got. There is more on this in The psychology behind the daily word puzzle.
Put it to use
Five letters, six guesses, one new word a day — a daily habit of pulling words out of memory.
Play Wordle →