McGill English Dictionary of Rhyme with VersePerfect

McGill English Dictionary of Rhyme with VersePerfect is a software application, created by a Bryant McGill, Adam Markowitz, Jim Karol, Chantelle Paige, Bobbi Billard and Jeff Kozlowski, which helps individuals find rhymes and definitions for words.

The simple and intuitive interface is comprised of several tabs, which enable any type of user to easily browse through the many options available.

This utility supports import and export for TXT files, as well as printing with a single click, directly from the main window.

The built-in text editor includes a number of useful options such as showing or hiding rhymes, phrases, line numbers, verse form and syllable count. Aside from that, you can enable spell check, thesaurus suggestions and word explorer tools.

For each word you input, you can view a hyperbolic thesaurus, containing the context of your expression and several word families. There are two levels, the size of both being subject to change.

As a tool developed mainly for poets, songwriters and musicians, the program comes with some built-in song samples, so as to get an idea of how you can start creating your own.

The “Online Lookup” tab looks up words in a myriad of databases, including “The Collaborative International Dictionary of English,” “The Jargon File,” “Easton’s 1897 Bible Dictionary,” and the list goes on. There are even multiple search strategies one can choose from, such as returning definitions, matching suffixes, prefixes, and even the first word within headwords.

It is also possible to search within Wikipedia and Wiktionary from the main window, as well as dictionary.com and Google.

To sum up, McGill English Dictionary of Rhyme with VersePerfect is a piece of software that proves to be efficient for songwriters and poets, with a myriad of tools and options to choose from. Response time, as well as CPU and memory usage are very good.