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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.

  • between life and death
  • bore to death
  • cheat death
  • do to death
  • done to death
  • fate worse than death
  • frightened to death
  • kiss of death
  • matter of life and death
  • meet one's death
  • scare to death
  • sick to death
  • tickle to death
  • to death
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.

  • safe bet
  • forgive and forget
  • get up and get
  • play hard to get
  • hail fellow well met
  • russian roulette
  • all set
  • get set
  • heart set
  • skill set
  • cold sweat
  • no sweat
  • triple threat
  • all wet
  • get one's feet wet
  • get your feet wet
  • wringing wet
  • as yet
Near Rhymes — Set #1 of 85
  • by a hair's breadth
Near Rhymes — Set #2 of 85
  • clean bill of health
  • holistic health
  • in rude health
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."

One-syllable words do not have mosaic rhymes.

Mosaic Rhymes — Set #1 of 1