Lyrics Writer

How it works

Lyrics Writer helps you write song lyrics with real-time phonetic feedback and rhyme detection.

• Type a lyric on each line. Press Enter to move to the next line.
• IPA phonetics appear below each line, showing how the words are pronounced using the International Phonetic Alphabet.
• Rhyme detection automatically finds lines that end with the same sounds. Matching endings are bolded and color-coded — lines sharing a rhyme get a colored left border.
• Syllable count is shown as a small badge on each line.
• Rhyme suggestions — click the ✦ button on any line to get word suggestions. Each suggestion shows two scores:
  • Rhyme score (orange number) — how many IPA sounds the word shares with the target from the end. For example, “night” and “light” share 3 sounds (/aɪt/).
  • Meaning score (purple %) — how semantically close the word is to the target, measured as cosine similarity between word embeddings (100k-word vocabulary). A high score means the words tend to appear in similar contexts.
  The slider controls the balance between the two scores. The target word can be edited directly next to the slider.
• Drag & drop lines using the ≡ handle to reorder them.
• Paste multiple lines at once — they are automatically split into separate lyric lines.
• Undo / Redo with Ctrl+Z / Ctrl+Shift+Z or the header buttons.
• Your work is auto-saved in your browser and survives page refreshes.

🇬🇧 English

IPA comes from a built-in dictionary of common words (pronouns, verbs, prepositions, contractions) and a rule-based pronunciation converter for unknown words. English spelling is irregular, so rule-based results are approximate. All processing is done locally — no network requests.

🇫🇷 French

French uses a built-in dictionary and a comprehensive rule-based converter. French spelling is fairly regular, so most words are handled accurately. Missing accents are tolerated — typing ecrire will produce the same result as écrire.

Syllable counting follows French prosody rules: the e muet (ə) counts as a syllable before a consonant but is elided before a vowel or at the end of a line. When elision is ambiguous, both counts are shown (e.g. 11~12).

🇪🇸 Spanish

Spanish uses a built-in dictionary and a rule-based converter. Spanish pronunciation is very regular (soft c/g, silent h, ñ, ll, ch, intervocalic b/d approximants), so most words are accurately converted.

🇮🇹 Italian

Italian uses a built-in dictionary and a rule-based converter handling sc/sch/sci, gli, gn, ch/gh, ci/gi, zz, and intervocalic s voicing. Italian pronunciation is largely predictable from spelling.

🏛️ Latin

Latin uses a fully rule-based converter following Classical Latin pronunciation. Digraphs (ae, oe, au, ph, th, ch, qu) and all standard letter values are handled.