8,005 American idioms indexed by syllables, rhyme, initial phonemes, and phonetic similarity.
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Phonetic Guide
These labels are sound-based. Read the phoneme codes as compact pronunciation hints, then use the filters to compare idioms by how they sound.
Phonemes are the speech sounds behind each idiom. This app uses ARPABET codes: consonants are plain letters, and vowels usually end with a stress number.
K AE1 T = catPhraselet the cat out of the bagAAfatherAEcatAHstrutAOthoughtAWcowAYmyEHbedERbirdEYdayIHsitIYseeOWgoOYboyUHbookUWtooCHchairDHthisHHhatJHjamNGsingSHshoeTHthinZHmeasureA rhyme key is the ending sound signature for the whole idiom. The app starts at the last stressed vowel and keeps every phoneme to the end.
EH1 F ER0 TPhrasean A for effortInitials are first consonant sounds from counted words, not first letters. Sound is what matters: cat and kite share K, and phone and fun share F even though they do not share the same first letter.
L K BPhraselet the cat out of the bag (stopwords ignored)The floor is the minimum repeated-initial score an idiom must reach. The score is the share of counted words using the most common initial sound.
0.67 (D F F)Phraseadd fuel to the fireStress marks show which syllables are emphasized in pronunciation. Here, 1 means stressed and 0 means unstressed.
Stress (linguistics) on Wikipedia
1 0 1Phraseby and byTo improve phonetic groupings, the system automatically strips dictionary placeholder phrases during its sound analysis (but leaves them in the display names).
(oneself)) is removed.someone or something, doing something, and someone's are removed.something appears at the very end of an idiom, it is removed.with in with someone or something) are preserved to maintain the core phrasal verb.