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incandescentman
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This is incredible. However, it looks like the list of rhymes that it pulls is quite limited. 

If I enter the word, "air," for instance, it gives me:

`kitchenware
ere
their
there
where
care
bear
fair
hair
share
chair
pair
rare
wear
bare`

But there are so many common words that do not appear: billionaire, debonair, aware, despair... 

Is it artificially limiting the number of rhymes it shows me? Is there any way I can remove this limiter? Thanks!
how to pull more rhymes?
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bilalq
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Hey, thanks for the interest!

I've actually just started re-writing this entire thing from scratch. I'll push out a WIP branch in a couple days. 

Right now, it's artificially restricted to the first 15 best rhymes. I think it might make sense to expose more on demand. I could look into adding either a "load more" button or maybe making the rhymes and infinitely scrollable list (well, finite up to the number of rhymes we found). I'm open to other ideas as well.
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incandescentman
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That would be amazing. Other ideas:

1. Sort rhymes according to number of syllables in the word. This would be amazing and not too difficult
2. More difficult: search by scansion

This might be way too difficult, but if you're looking to extend this, it would certainly be useful to be able to search not just by rhyme, but also by scansion/meter. (Syllable count as well as which syllable the emphasis falls on.) 

Example: Suppose I am looking for a word that is an anapest (a three-syllable word where the emphasis falls on the last syllable, i.e. "apprehend" is an anapest, "decorate" is not). It would be great to be able to query a scansion dictionary to be given a list of matches. 

A combined rhyme/scansion dictionary would be a killer app. So that if, let's say, I wanted (1) an anapest that (2) rhymes with "hair," I could query that, and be given a list of anapests that rhyme with "hair" (e.g. "billionaire" "debonair" "laissez-faire") but leaves out non-anapests (e.g. "leisurewear"). 

But I know this is complicated. For now just seeing the complete list of rhymes would be great!
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