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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.

  • burst into flames
  • go up in flames
  • fun and games
  • home, james
  • call names
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 1

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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.

  • take aim
  • to blame
  • stake a claim
  • add fuel to the flame
  • an old flame
  • old flame
  • ahead of the game
  • at stage of the game
  • ball game
  • be game
  • love game
  • name of the game
  • on the game
  • pick-up game
  • play a waiting game
  • play the game
  • skin in the game
  • still in the game
  • whole new ball game
  • clear one's name
  • drop name
  • handle to one's name
  • in name
  • pet name
  • to one's name
  • just the same
  • one and the same
  • damn shame
  • for shame
  • put to shame
  • to shame
Near Rhymes — Set #1 of 47
  • set ablaze
  • dog days
  • have seen better days
  • heavenly days
  • salad days
  • see better days
  • seen better days
  • some of these days
  • in a haze
  • catch phrase
  • cause eyebrows to raise
  • get a raise
  • catch some rays
  • cut two ways
  • mend one's ways
  • parting of the ways
  • set in one's ways
Near Rhymes — Set #2 of 47
Near Rhymes — Set #3 of 47

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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."

One-syllable words do not have mosaic rhymes.

Mosaic Rhymes — Set #1 of 1