Carnet du Poete

A companion for writing French verse in Obsidian: syllable counting with full scansion breakdown, a rhyming dictionary, thematic vocabulary, synonyms/antonyms (including live lookup from external sources), and a quick reference on French versification — all in one side panel, no internet connection required for the core features.

Quick start

1. Install the plugin (see Manual installation) and enable it in Settings → Community plugins.
2. Click the quill 🪶 icon in the left ribbon to open the notebook.
3. Type or paste a verse in the Syllables tab, or a word in the Rhymes tab.
4. On first launch, the plugin downloads its ~210,000-word phonetic dictionary (1.9 MB, once per dictionary version — see Base dictionary and personal layer).

Contents

• Features
  • Syllables · Rhymes · Inspiration · Synonyms · Definitions · Hasard · Notes · Guide · Commands
• Manual installation
• Extending your dictionaries with dictionnaire-perso.json
  • Base dictionary and personal layer · Where the plugin looks for it
  • Supported formats: A · B · C · D · E · F
• Online sources
• Data sources & licences
• Known limitations
• Changelog — 5 most recent versions · Full changelog

Features

The plugin opens as a side panel with eight tabs. Everything below works offline, except the sources you choose to query online (see Online sources).

Syllables

Paste or type your verses: each line is broken down into syllables in real time (mon/ta/gne).

• Silent e — counted following the classic rule: only when it is neither at the end of a line nor followed by a word starting with a vowel.
• Metre and rhyme gender — the metre (octosyllable, alexandrine…) is detected automatically, and a small F/M badge gives the rhyme's gender (feminine if the line ends on a silent e, masculine otherwise). With Alternance M/F ticked (default), a red alternance badge flags a line that doesn't rhyme with the previous one yet shares its gender, against the classical alternation rule — across stanza breaks too. With Hémistiche ticked (default), alexandrines (6//6) and decasyllables (4//6) show their caesura as //, and a red césure badge flags a caesura inside a word or on a pronounced mute e.
• Fixed forms — the Forme menu checks the poem against a chosen form and lists each rule as ✓ or ✗ with the faulty lines (⚠ for hints the tool can't decide alone). Forms, grouped in the menu: haïku, tanka, triolet (short forms); French and Shakespearean sonnets; rondel, rondeau (with its rentrement), villanelle, ballade (refrain forms); pantoum, terza rima, sextine (chained forms); and the Fahsee (five 5-line stanzas of 5 // 5 decasyllables rhyming ABABA, with linking and return words). Depending on the form: stanza structure, syllable counts or isometry, rhyme scheme, refrains and repeated lines, chained lines or end-words, caesura (a form can impose its own, e.g. 5 // 5). Two rhyme hints apply to every form: a word rhyming with itself or its derivative, and the classical written-consonant rule (-s/-x/-z only rhyme together). Faulty line numbers link to the Rhymes tab. The Note active button loads the open note into the draft: the selection if any, else the first ```poeme block, else the whole note (Markdown syntax stripped); a forme: frontmatter property picks the form.
• Synérèse / diérèse — when a word contains an ambiguous hiatus (nation, poésie, paupière), the main line shows the synérèse reading (hiatus as one syllable) and a second line underneath shows the diérèse (hiatus split in two). You choose the reading that fits your verse; the "Variante diérèse" checkbox hides that second line.
• Rhyme scheme detection — the poem is split into stanzas (blank-line separated); each stanza's end-rhymes are labelled A/B/C…, and a quatrain matching AABB, ABAB or ABBA is named accordingly. By default each stanza restarts at A; tick "Rimes continues entre strophes" to keep the lettering going across the whole poem (a sonnet's tercets as CCD/EED after its ABBA/ABBA quatrains).
• Rhyme colour-coding — "Couleurs de rimes" gives each line a coloured badge and border matching its rhyme group, in the analysis view (not in the raw text box, which a plain <textarea> cannot colour).
• Markdown export — "📋 Exporter en Markdown" copies a table (verse / syllables / rhyme gender / rhyme letter / rhyme quality) to your clipboard. Rhyme quality is filled in from the second line of each rhyme group, relative to the first. "📄 Copier le brouillon" copies the raw draft as-is.
• Persistent draft — your text is saved automatically between sessions.

Rhymes

Type a word and get masculine/feminine rhyme suggestions with their syllable count.

• Sources — roughly sixty built-in sound families, overridden by exact matches from a complete phonetic dictionary when you have one (see Extending your dictionaries). The base dictionary downloaded on first launch covers ~210,000 words.
• Filters — first letter, syllable count, rhyme quality (pauvre / suffisante / riche+, with Très riche and Léonine as sub-filters of riche+), and, since 2.29, grammatical category (Nom / Verbe / Adjectif / Adverbe / Autres — a word can match several, e.g. abaissé is both verb and adjective). Quality is estimated from the trailing sounds shared with your word, with a syllable-aware check (attack + vowel + coda) separating riche / très riche / léonine. The grammatical category comes from Lexique383 and, for words Lexique doesn't cover, Morphalou; a word the base dictionary can't categorize (a Méral rare word, or a RimesSolides/Wiktionnaire result absent from the local dictionary) is never hidden by this filter.
• Visual read — each group shows a colour-coded quality summary, and every word chip carries a matching coloured border and badge, with a tooltip explaining the criterion.
• Online complements — tick RimesSolides (rimessolides.com) and/or Wiktionnaire (the words it files under the same rhyme category — partial coverage, handy as a fallback and for rare words). All filters apply to their results too, including the grammatical category one, so you can narrow a 4,000-word RimesSolides list the way the site itself can't. Local and online results appear in separate collapsible blocks.
• No self-rhymes — the searched word's own inflections (armée → armées, armé, armer…) are left out, since a word doesn't rhyme with itself.
• Mode assonance (off by default) — also shows words sharing the same vowel but differing after it (ombre/montre), in a separate dashed-border section, never mixed with true rhymes. It also loosens rhyme-scheme detection and colour-coding in the Syllables tab, which share the same check.

Inspiration

Type a common word (forest, sea, night, love, medieval…) and get rarer, more literary or archaic vocabulary on the same theme (forest → canopée, sylve, futaie, orée), each with a short gloss.

• Built-in themes — about thirty, including one dedicated to old/archaic French.
• Online sources — optionally tick CNRTL, Wiktionnaire and/or JeuxDeMots for lexical-field material fetched live (collocations, related vocabulary, derived words, sayings, characteristics, parts…). Sub-sections are coloured by nature, not by source (see the collapsible legend).
• Build your own fields — click any word to select it; the selection persists across searches, so you can combine several queries (sea + colour). An action bar then adds the whole selection to a lexical field (existing, autocompleted, or created on the fly with its own trigger keywords) or as rare words into dictionnaire-perso.json. Known definitions are carried over; words from online sources can be defined later in the Notes tab.

Synonyms

Type a word to see synonyms and antonyms.

• Offline first — a small built-in dictionary answers instantly, extended by the synonyms of your personal dictionary.
• Online sources — CNRTL, CRISCO (Université de Caen) and/or Wiktionnaire, each toggled independently. A one-click button saves any online result into your personal dictionary for offline use; click a chip first to exclude it from that save.
• Rhyme-aware — every synonym/antonym that rhymes with your word gets a quality badge, and the optional "Rime avec…" field keeps only those that also rhyme with a second word — handy when another line has already fixed the rhyme.

Definitions

Look up a rare word before using it.

• A quick one-line definition appears immediately, then up to seven dictionaries (TLFi, Wiktionnaire, Académie 9th/8th/4th editions, Littré, DMF for Middle French — only those that cover the word) are offered as pills, TLFi first.
• Each source is split into collapsible sections (numbered senses, locutions, historical notes…), with pure-definition text highlighted as on the CNRTL site.
• "Ouvrir sur CNRTL ↗" opens the real site for whatever you've typed. Nothing is looked up automatically.

Hasard

One button, one rare or forgotten French word at random (smaragdin, coruscant, pétrichor, s'ennuiter…), with a short gloss and quick links to the Definitions and Rhymes tabs. A live counter shows how many words match the current filters before you draw, and the draw avoids repeating recent words (a rolling window adapted to the filtered pool).

• Tags — every word can carry free-form tags (désuet, savant, poétique…), each with its own stable colour, added or removed on the fly: preset buttons (your most-used tags first), a free-text field with autocomplete, or several pills at once in the "voir tous les tags" panel.
• Filtrer par tags (collapsible, purple) — OR by default (at least one checked tag). Tick "Tous les tags cochés (ET)" for a real intersection (méral + poésie together). "+ au moins un tag en plus de ceux cochés" asks for the checked tag(s) plus any other tag — "this tag, but already categorised further".
• Exclure des tags (collapsible, gold) — the NOT logic: removes any word carrying one of the checked tags, whatever the include filters. "🚫 Masquer les mots connus" toggles the reserved "connu" tag into this set.
• Shortcuts — "🚫 Explorer les exclus" (review mode, combinable with tag filters), "☆ Explorer « like »" (your "like" tag), "📭 Masquer les mots déjà tagués" (0 tags) and "🏷️ Explorer les multi-tagués" (2+ tags).
• Saving — "💾 Graver dans dictionnaire-perso.json" (after the tagging controls: tag first, commit second) writes the drawn word's tags permanently and clears its session record; a bulk "Graver en masse" lives in Settings. Merging never silently drops a note: if two differ and neither contains the other, both are kept, joined by "· · ·".
• Stats (collapsible) — total words, excluded/untagged counts, "% already seen", a per-tag breakdown and every tag combination actually present — handy to decide when to import new words or spot an over-used tag.
• Manual entry — a small form adds a rare word (word, optional gloss, optional tags) straight into your personal dictionary. Tags can also be declared directly in the file (see Format E), e.g. to pre-tag a bulk import.

Notes

A maintenance tab listing every rare word and lexical-field word still missing a definition (typically after a bulk import or an online source with no gloss), each with an inline field to write one — saved to dictionnaire-perso.json, and removed from the list once done.

Guide

A quick reference on French versification: syllable counting, metre names, caesura, enjambment, stanza names, classic forms (sonnet, rondeau, ballade, villanelle, pantoum, triolet, virelai, tanka, calligramme, ode, haiku, fable, acrostic, free verse…), and the basics of rhyme (schemes, quality, masculine/feminine alternation, eye-rhymes vs. ear-rhymes).

Commands

From the Command palette (Ctrl/Cmd+P):

• Open the Carnet du Poete
• Count the syllables in the selection (or the current line) — result in a notification, with rhyme gender and diaeresis alternative.
• Search for rhymes for the selected word — opens a pop-up with the same results as the Rhymes tab.
• Search for inspiration (vocabulary) for the selected word
• Reload the personal dictionary (dictionnaire-perso.json)

Manual installation

1. Locate your vault's plugin folder: <your-vault>/.obsidian/plugins/ (create the plugins folder if it doesn't exist yet).
2. Copy the entire plugin folder into it, then make sure it is named carnet-du-poete (it must contain manifest.json, main.js and styles.css).
3. In Obsidian: Settings → Community plugins. Turn off Restricted Mode if needed, then enable Carnet du Poete in the list.
4. A quill 🪶 icon appears in the left ribbon — click it to open the notebook.

No build step is required: the plugin is plain JavaScript, ready to run.

If you install via BRAT, note that BRAT only downloads main.js, manifest.json and styles.css from the repository — it never copies a custom data file. The base dictionary is downloaded by the plugin itself (see the next section), and your personal dictionnaire-perso.json lives in your vault.

Extending your dictionaries with dictionnaire-perso.json

Everything below is optional. Out of the box, the plugin already ships with a curated rhyme dictionary, ~30 vocabulary themes, and a small synonym list. dictionnaire-perso.json lets you add to (or, for rhymes, largely replace) any of these — all from a single file.

Base dictionary and personal layer

Since 2.28, the dictionary is split in two files:

• dictionnaire-base.json.gz — the published dictionary (~210,000 words with phonetics, synonyms, Didier Méral's rare words). The plugin downloads it from this repository's GitHub release into its own folder, on first launch and again only when a new version of the base is published. This is the plugin's only automatic network access; no data about you or your vault is sent. Offline, the plugin keeps the base it already has and retries at the next launch. The plugin never writes to this file, so it can be replaced safely.
• dictionnaire-perso.json — your own additions only (synonyms, rare words, tags, notes, vocabulary themes), created in your vault at your first annotation. On loading, it is merged over the base: tags add up, your note is shown above the base note, words you never touched receive the base's corrections. A new base can therefore never erase your work, and uninstalling the plugin doesn't delete it.

Upgrading from 2.27 or earlier: an old all-in-one dictionnaire-perso.json is converted automatically at the first launch of 2.28 — the plugin first saves a timestamped copy (dictionnaire-perso.sauvegarde-YYYYMMDD-HHMM.json, next to the new file; you can delete it once everything looks right), then keeps only what differs from the base. If the old file was in the plugin's folder, the new one is written at the root of the vault.

Where the plugin looks for it

The plugin searches, in order, and stops at the first match:

1. The plugin's own folder (.obsidian/plugins/carnet-du-poete/).
2. The root of .obsidian.
3. The root of the vault itself.
4. Anywhere else in the vault's normal content (any note folder) — the simplest option on mobile or with BRAT: just drop the file into your vault like any other file.
5. Any subfolder of .obsidian, searched recursively (up to 5 levels deep), in case it ended up somewhere unexpected.

You can reload it at any time without restarting Obsidian via the command "Reload the personal dictionary (dictionnaire-perso.json)" — a notification will confirm what was found, or tell you it searched everywhere and found nothing.

Supported formats

All of the following top-level keys are optional and can be combined freely in the same file.

Format A: custom rhyme families

Added to the built-in ones:

{
  "familles": [
    {
      "son": "-onk [custom]",
      "exemple": "conque, jonque",
      "terms": ["onque", "onk"],
      "mots": ["conque", "jonque", "adonque"]
    }
  ]
}

terms are the spelling endings that trigger this family (longer, more specific endings win ties). mots is the list of words offered as rhymes.

Format B: complete phonetic rhyme dictionary

Exact matches from it take priority over the built-in approximation:

{
  "ka": ["avocat", "cas", "syndicat", "..."],
  "sa": ["cassa", "dansa", "pensa", "..."]
}

A flat object where each key is a phonetic rhyme identifier (its exact form doesn't matter, it is never shown) and the value is the list of words that truly rhyme, grouped by actual French pronunciation rather than spelling. This is the export format used by projects such as Remède; if you ever generate one (for instance from a phonetic lexicon such as Lexique383), drop it in as-is. Very large groups (some verb-conjugation endings exceed a thousand words) are shown 100 at a time with a button to reveal the rest.

Format C: vocabulary themes for the Inspiration tab

Added to the built-in ones:

{
  "champsLexicaux": [
    {
      "theme": "My custom theme",
      "motsClefs": ["trigger1", "trigger2"],
      "mots": [
        { "mot": "rareword", "note": "short gloss or nuance" }
      ]
    }
  ]
}

motsClefs are the everyday words that trigger this theme in the Inspiration tab (matching ignores accents and simple plurals). A theme is matched against an existing one (built-in or already loaded) by its name, case/accent-insensitively — if it matches, the two are merged (keywords unioned, words added, empty notes filled in) rather than kept as a separate, invisible duplicate. If your dictionnaire-perso.json predates this behaviour, run Settings → Carnet du Poète → "Nettoyer et fusionner dictionnaire-perso.json" once to merge any existing duplicates and repair auto-generated keyword lists from before the fix (a multi-word theme used to collapse into one unsearchable glued string, e.g. "Night & darkness" → nightdarkness instead of ["night", "darkness"]).

Format D: synonyms and antonyms

Added to the built-in ones — this is also exactly what the "💾 Save to my personal dictionary" button in the Synonyms tab writes for you automatically:

{
  "synonymes": [
    { "mot": "brume", "synonymes": ["brouillard", "vapeur"], "antonymes": ["clarté"] }
  ]
}

Format E: rare words for the Hasard tab

Added to the built-in pool of rare/forgotten words, with optional tags for filtering the random draw (also addable/removable later from the UI):

{
  "motsRares": [
    { "mot": "estival", "note": "qui appartient à l'été", "tags": ["saison"] }
  ]
}

This is also the format for bulk-importing a large word list (thousands of entries at once are fine performance-wise). Tags added from the UI during a session live temporarily in Obsidian's plugin data, not in this file — use the "💾 Graver" button (per word, Hasard tab) or "Graver en masse" (Settings, all at once) to commit them here permanently.

Format F: extended phonetic dictionary

A richer variant of format B, informally called "Format C" in the changelog, which can coexist with format B keys in the same file. Instead of a flat list of words, each key maps to an object of word → details, giving the word's full phonetic transcription and its own synonyms/antonyms:

{
  "sE": {
    "abaissai": {
      "phonetique": "abEsE",
      "synonymes": [{ "mot": "baisser", "phonetique": "bese" }],
      "antonymes": []
    }
  }
}

The phonetic alphabet is SAMPA-like, one character per phoneme (vowels: a i y u o e E O 2 9 ° @ § 5 1 — E=[ɛ], O=[ɔ], 2=[ø], 9=[œ], °=[ə], @ § 5 1=the four nasal vowels [ɑ̃ ɔ̃ ɛ̃ œ̃]; consonants use their usual letter, R=[ʁ], S=[ʃ], Z=[ʒ], N=[ɲ], and j/w/8 for the semi-vowels [j]/[w]/[ɥ] — this matches the phonetic column exported by Lexique383-based tools). synonymes/antonymes entries can be plain strings or, better, {"mot": "...", "phonetique": "..."} objects — when the phonetic field is filled in (because that synonym is itself a key elsewhere in the same dictionary), rhyme quality between it and any other word becomes exact rather than approximated. Whenever both words being compared (for rhyme quality, or in the Synonyms tab's "Rime avec…" field) have a known phonetic transcription, the plugin uses it instead of the orthographic heuristic — see Known limitations.

Online sources

Apart from the one-time download of the base dictionary from GitHub (see Base dictionary and personal layer), the plugin only goes online when you tick a source. Several tabs can query external sites live, directly from your device (through Obsidian's requestUrl API, which works the same on desktop and mobile, without browser CORS restrictions).

Nothing is sent by default. In the Rhymes, Synonyms and Inspiration tabs every online source is an opt-in checkbox, queried only when ticked (your ticked sources are remembered per tab); the Definitions tab queries CNRTL only when you search. In the Synonyms and Inspiration tabs, a "💾 Save to my personal dictionary" button writes results into dictionnaire-perso.json in one click (creating it at the root of your vault if needed), so they stay available offline.

Adding a source to the Synonyms/Inspiration tabs is a small, self-contained change: a function that takes a word and returns { synonymes: [...], antonymes: [...], trouve: true|false }, registered in the SOURCES_EN_LIGNE table (src/07-sources-en-ligne.js). Open an issue if you'd like a specific source added.

Fair use note: these are third-party sites without a public API contract; the plugin fetches their normal pages (or, for CNRTL, its internal JSON API) and extracts the relevant section. If a site changes its layout, that source may temporarily return nothing — the other sources and the local dictionaries are unaffected. CNRTL's portal redesign did break the plugin's HTML scraping (see 2.24.3); the Definitions tab now uses their JSON API, more resilient but not a public contract either.

Data sources & licences

The plugin's code is licensed under GPL-3.0 (see LICENSE). The published dictionary dictionnaire-base.json.gz is a separate work: derived from Lexique383, it is shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.

The base dictionary published with this repository is built from three sources. Every word carries a src code recording where it comes from (explained in the _legende field at the top of the file):

• L — Lexique383 (B. New, C. Pallier et al.): phonetic transcriptions of ~121,000 word forms. Licence CC BY-SA 4.0 — the dictionary file, as a derived work, is shared under the same licence.
• M — Morphalou 3.1 (ATILF – CNRS, Nancy): ~89,000 additional forms (nouns, adjectives, participles, infinitives, adverbs), their phonetics converted to Lexique's notation. Licence LGPL-LR.
• R — Didier Méral's inventory of rare, forgotten or obsolete French words, freely shared by its author since 2006 (rare-word list and definitions, tag méral).

A cor field marks the entries whose source phonetics were corrected: ai = future and simple-past 1st-person -ai pronounced [e] rather than [ɛ] (aimerai, chantai), which Lexique383 transcribes as [ɛ].

Known limitations

• Syllable counting is a spelling-based heuristic (like most free online tools), not a full phonetic transcription: very irregular cases (complex liaisons, rare words, Latinate or Greek-derived words) may need manual judgement. One specific ambiguity — whether a word ending in "-ent" is a silent 3rd-person-plural verb form (pleurent) or a genuinely pronounced noun/adjective (récent, argent, président...) — is resolved exactly against the extended phonetic dictionary when the word is covered by one, and falls back to a curated list of ~70 common exceptions otherwise (not exhaustive).
• Whether a silent e elides before a word starting with a vowel follows the classic versification rule, but some other online tools don't apply this consistently — expect occasional differences with them, especially on free verse. The full syllable breakdown is shown precisely so you can check the choice yourself, line by line.
• Diaeresis/synaeresis detection relies on a list of "fixed" diphthongs (always 1 syllable); any vowel hiatus outside that list is flagged as a possible diaeresis, and the alternate breakdown is shown — the choice of reading is yours.
• The built-in rhyme, vocabulary and synonym dictionaries are hand-curated, not exhaustive; a rare word may not be recognised. The optional complete phonetic rhyme dictionary (format B above) largely closes that gap for rhymes specifically.
• Rhyme quality (pauvre / suffisante / riche / très riche / léonine) is exact when both compared words have a known transcription in an extended phonetic dictionary (format F above) — real phonemes, no guessing. Otherwise it falls back to a spelling-based heuristic that handles common mismatches (-tion≈-ssion, doubled letters, i/y semi-consonant, ê/è/ei/circumflex, intervocalic "s"→[z], au/eau≈o, œu/oeu≈eu, um≈un, im≈in, infinitive -er/-ez≈é...) but isn't infallible, especially on rare or irregular words — and can occasionally be more generous than the real phonemes would be (a silent final e has, on rare occasions, been miscounted as an extra shared son). The très riche/léonine distinction (both engines) relies on an approximate syllabification (valid onset clusters, e.g. "pl", "tr"); very unusual consonant clusters may still be split incorrectly.
• The online sources depend on third-party websites staying reachable and structurally unchanged; treat them as a bonus on top of, not a replacement for, the offline dictionaries.
• Rhyme-pair colour-coding applies to the rendered analysis below the text box, not to the raw text box itself, which a plain HTML <textarea> cannot style character-by-character.

Changelog

• 2.31.1 — CSS lint fixes for the Obsidian plugin review.

  • No more !important (more specific selectors instead) and no more :has(): toggle pills now get an is-checked class, kept in sync even when the plugin ticks a box itself (settings loaded, "tick all rich rhymes", quick filters).
  • gap shorthand instead of row-gap/column-gap, and a dotted border instead of a two-value text-decoration. Same look.

• 2.31.0 — Eleven more fixed forms, note loading, rhyme hints.

  • Forme menu, now grouped: short forms (haïku, tanka, triolet), sonnets (French, Shakespearean), refrain forms (rondel, rondeau with its rentrement, villanelle, ballade), chained forms (pantoum, terza rima, sextine), and Fahsee. Each checks its stanza structure, metre, rhyme scheme and, where relevant, refrains, chained lines or rotating end-words.
  • Note active button in the Syllables tab: loads into the draft the text selected in the open note, otherwise its first ```poeme code block, otherwise the whole note — with the frontmatter and Markdown syntax (headings, quotes, bullets, emphasis, links) stripped. A forme: property in the frontmatter selects the form automatically.
  • Two rhyme hints (⚠, never errors) for every form: rime du même au même (a word rhyming with itself or its own derivative: tient / retient) and the classical written-consonant rule (-s/-x/-z only rhyme together: amour / jours, sang / absent). Refrains and repeated lines are exempt.
  • In the compliance summary, each faulty line number is a link: click it to open the Rhymes tab on that line's last word.
  • 165 tests.

• 2.30.0 — Fixed forms, hemistich and masculine/feminine alternation checks, and fixes.

  • Syllables tab: new Forme menu (libre, Sonnet, Fahsee). Picking a form shows a compliance summary above the analysis, one ✓/✗ line per rule with the faulty line numbers. Sonnet: 4+4+3+3, isometric alexandrines or decasyllables, regular hemistich, quatrains ABBA ABBA on the same two rhymes, tercets CCD EED or CCD EDE, masculine/feminine alternation. Fahsee: 25 lines in five 5-line stanzas, decasyllables cut 5 // 5, ABABA in each stanza with rhymes of its own (the last stanza's A returns to the first's), a linking word (the last word of a stanza opens the next, possibly in another form: relit → Relis) and a return word (the poem ends on its first word). Lines without final punctuation are flagged ⚠ to check rather than as errors, since a real pause doesn't always need one.
  • Syllable count: words with an aspirated h (haut, haine, héros, hibou, hors…) no longer cause elision (le haut is 2 syllables, not 1).
  • Rhymes: a final h after a vowel is silent (Shorah / déplaça), and à/ù rhyme like a/u (là / Shorah).
  • Syllables tab: new Hémistiche toggle (on by default). A // marks the caesura after the 6th syllable of an alexandrine and the 4th of a decasyllable; a red césure badge flags one that cuts a word or falls on a pronounced mute e. When only the diaeresis reading makes 12 (or 10), the mark goes on that reading.
  • Syllables tab: new Alternance M/F toggle (on by default). A red alternance badge marks a line that doesn't rhyme with the previous one but has the same gender (two masculine or two feminine rhymes in a row), across stanza breaks too.
  • Rhyme gender fix: a word in -ent now counts as feminine when the dictionary knows it only as a verb (ils aiment), and stays masculine as a noun, adjective or adverb (vent, souvent) or when ambiguous (couvent). Imperfect/subjunctive -aient/-oient stay masculine, as in the classical tradition. It used to be masculine in every case.
  • Definitions tab: the search field gets its own line, with Chercher and Ouvrir sur CNRTL ↗ below it. On a phone, the three side by side squeezed the field to a few pixels.
  • Syllable count fixes: final -es/-ent no longer elide before a vowel inside a line (vastes oiseaux, gouffres amers — Baudelaire's L'Albatros now scans 12); the tréma always splits (na-ïf, No-ël, a-ïeux); circumflex vowel pairs (plaît, goût, maître) are no longer offered a false diaeresis.
  • Elided words rhyme and get their gender like the bare word: m'attends / longtemps, t'aime / même, s'aiment feminine.
  • Data safety: if dictionnaire-perso.json can't be written, Hasard no longer empties the word's pending tags, and Notes, Inspiration and Synonymes no longer report a false success. Two overlapping dictionary loads no longer duplicate entries; 20 rare words present both in the built-in list and in the base are no longer drawn twice as often; Settings no longer says there is no personal dictionary when the base is missing (offline).
  • Inspiration: adding several words reloads the dictionary once instead of once per word, and deselecting clears the highlight on the result chips.
  • Online sources: results are cached per word for the session, so ticking a filter or typing in Rime avec… no longer re-queries RimesSolides, Wiktionnaire, CRISCO or JeuxDeMots. CNRTL definitions are sanitized before display (scripts and event attributes removed).
  • Tests: dictionary statistics, data-safety cases, prosody cases and the online cache are now covered, including a full dictionary load with migration. The test harness supports asynchronous tests. 141 tests.

• 2.29.1 — Dictionary statistics in Settings.

  • New "Dictionary" section: word and rare-word counts for the base, and the path, size and count of personal additions (rare words, lexical fields, synonyms) in your dictionnaire-perso.json.
  • Two bugs found and fixed while building it, with no effect elsewhere: the base's count was read after a merge that mutates it in place, and the perso's path/size still reflected the state from before a migration that had just run.

• 2.29.0 — Grammatical filter in the Rhymes tab.

  • New checkboxes — Nom, Verbe, Adjectif, Adverbe, Autres — narrow rhyme results by grammatical category, on top of the existing letter/syllable/quality filters. A word can match several categories at once (e.g. abaissé, verb and adjective) and passes if any checked box fits.
  • The base dictionary now carries this category for every word, from Lexique383 and, where Lexique has no entry, Morphalou. A word with no known category (a Méral rare word, or a RimesSolides/Wiktionnaire result absent from the local dictionary) is never hidden by the filter.
  • Old dictionaries migrating straight from 2.27 or earlier are unaffected: the new field is ignored when deciding what counts as a personal change, so it can't inflate your personal file. Full history of every version: see CHANGELOG.md.