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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.

  • pick and choose
  • no time to lose
  • bad news
  • mind one's p's and q's
  • mind your p's and q's
  • tighten the screws
  • Jesus shoes
  • be in someone else's shoes
  • dead men's shoes
  • fill one's shoes
  • gym shoes
  • in someone else's shoes
  • into one's shoes
  • put oneself in another's shoes
  • step into one's shoes
  • walk a mile in my shoes
  • no use
  • put to use
  • to use
Pure Rhymes — Set #1 of 1

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End Rhymes

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

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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.

  • blow one's cool
  • keep cool
  • nobody's fool
  • play the fool
  • stubborn as a mule
  • car pool
  • as a rule
  • exception proves the rule
  • golden rule
  • ground rule
  • out of school
  • tell tales out of school
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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