Russian Rhymes

An offline Russian rhyming dictionary for Obsidian: rhymes, stress marks, meanings, synonyms and more for the selected word. Made for songwriters, poets and rappers who write in Russian.

Русское описание: README.ru.md

Highlights

• Rhymes by sound, not by spelling — a phonetic rhyme key (stress-tail normalization: vowel reduction, final devoicing, consonant clusters) groups words the way they actually sound. Four tiers: exact · near · slant (consonance) · assonance, plus alliteration.
• Stress marks — every word is shown with its stress; click any vowel to move the stress and re-rank the rhymes. Your manual choices are remembered.
• Meaning tab — definitions with usage examples and etymology (from Russian Wiktionary), plus a collapsible word-forms table.
• Associations tab — synonyms, antonyms, hypernyms/hyponyms, related words, set phrases, proverbs, associations, metagrams and anagrams, each in a collapsible section.
• "By meaning" filter — highlight or isolate rhymes that are also related in meaning.
• Fully offline — after a one-time dictionary download, everything works with no network.
• Personal dictionaries — import your own Lingvo/GoldenDict .dsl / .dsl.dz files and reorder them.
• Works on mobile and desktop.

Usage

• Select a word and press Ctrl+C twice quickly to look it up (the delay is configurable; set it to 0 to disable).
• Or open the panel from the ribbon (feather icon) / the command palette and type a word.
• Or right-click a word in the editor → Rhymes for "…".

In the panel: single-click a word to copy it, double-click to jump into its rhymes. Ctrl + ← / → (or a horizontal swipe on mobile) cycles through the sections.

The dictionary (one-time download)

Obsidian installs only the plugin code (main.js, manifest.json, styles.css). The dictionary itself (~73 MB) is downloaded on first use from this repository's GitHub release:

• When you open the panel without a dictionary, tap Download dictionary (~72 MB) — a progress indicator is shown.
• The files are stored inside the plugin folder and never leave your device afterwards.
• The download URL is configurable in Settings if you want to self-host the dictionary.

The download is a manual, explicit step so it never eats mobile data or storage without your consent.

Installation

From the Community Plugins catalog (once accepted): Settings → Community plugins → Browse → search "Russian Rhymes" → Install → Enable.

Manually: download main.js, manifest.json and styles.css from the latest release into <your vault>/.obsidian/plugins/russian-rhymes/, then enable the plugin in Settings → Community plugins.

Data sources & licenses

The plugin code is MIT-licensed (see LICENSE). The dictionary data is compiled from open datasets and carries their licenses:

• Word stress & frequencies — Koziev/NLP_Datasets (all_accents, term2freq) — CC0
• Inflection paradigms & homograph variants — OpenRussian.org via Badestrand/russian-dictionary — CC BY-SA 4.0
• Definitions, word forms, synonyms, antonyms, etymology, relations, phrases, idioms, proverbs, metagrams, anagrams, and modern vocabulary — Russian Wiktionary via kaikki.org — CC BY-SA 4.0
• Word associations — KartaSlov (dkulagin/kartaslov) — CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

Because the compiled data includes ShareAlike sources, the dictionary as a whole is distributed under CC BY-SA 4.0 (with the association layer additionally NonCommercial, CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). Attribution for the definition and association sources is also shown in-app.

Development

npm install
npm run build   # tsc type-check + esbuild bundle → main.js

The dictionary is built from the sources above with the scripts in tools/ (see tools/sources/README.md). main.js and dict/ are git-ignored; the release workflow builds main.js from source on a version tag push.

License

MIT © 2026 mrrepac