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Pure Rhymes

Words that have identical vowel-based rhyme sounds in the tonic syllable. Moreover, that tonic syllable must start with a different consonantal sound.

  • beard the lion in his own den
  • mad as a wet hen
  • beyond our ken
  • poison pen
  • slip of the pen
  • count to ten
  • five and ten
  • hang ten
  • now and then
  • say when
  • say when
Pure Rhymes — Set #1 of 1

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End Rhymes

Words that have a pure rhyme on their last syllable only.

End Rhymes — Set #1 of 2
End Rhymes — Set #2 of 2

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Near Rhymes

Words that "almost" rhyme on the vowel-based rhyme sound of the stressed syllable like: be/eat or maybe/shapely.

  • bad egg
  • curate's egg
  • go fry an egg
  • good egg
  • kill the goose that laid the golden egg
  • kill the goose that lays the golden egg
  • lay an egg
  • nest egg
  • rotten egg
  • sitting on a powder keg
  • an arm and a leg
  • arm and a leg
  • break a leg
  • it cost an arm and a leg
  • last leg
  • pull someone's leg
  • shake a leg
  • square peg
  • take down a peg
  • take someone down a peg
Near Rhymes — Set #1 of 85
Near Rhymes — Set #2 of 85
  • sure as eggs is eggs
  • teach your grandmother to suck eggs
  • walk on eggs
  • you can't make an omelette without breaking eggs
  • on one's last legs
  • on your last legs
  • sea legs
  • tail between one's legs
Near Rhymes — Set #3 of 85

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Mosaic Rhymes

Rhymes made up of more than one word. For instance, "jealous" and "tell us" or "shaky" and "make me."

  • the + Chen
  • the + den
  • the + en
  • the + glen
  • the + Glenn
  • the + hen
  • the + ken
  • the + men
  • the + pen
  • the + Penn
  • the + sen
  • the + ten
  • the + then
  • the + Venn
  • the + wen
  • the + when
  • the + when
  • the + wren
  • the + yen
Mosaic Rhymes — Set #1 of 1