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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.

  • French leave
  • absent without leave
  • gardening leave
  • shore leave
  • take French leave
  • ace up your sleeve
  • card up one's sleeve
  • card up your sleeve
  • have a trick up your sleeve
  • in one's sleeve
  • laugh in one's sleeve
  • pin one's heart on one's sleeve
  • put one's heart on one's sleeve
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.

  • big deal
  • great deal
  • it's a deal
  • new deal
  • raw deal
  • real deal
  • square deal
  • cop a feel
  • achilles' heel
  • bring to heel
  • come to heel
  • down at heel
  • on one's heel
  • to heel
  • turn on one's heel
  • under one's heel
  • even keel
  • on an even keel
  • make a meal
  • square meal
  • for real
  • it's been real
  • a steal
  • nerves of steel
  • asleep at the wheel
  • big wheel
  • fifth wheel
  • put one's shoulder to the wheel
  • reinvent the wheel
  • shoulder to the wheel
Near Rhymes — Set #1 of 54
Near Rhymes — Set #2 of 54
  • not the only pebble on the beach
  • flowery speech
  • maiden speech
Near Rhymes — Set #3 of 54

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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."

There are no mosaic rhymes for "believe".
Mosaic Rhymes — Set #1 of 1