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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.

  • hard nosed
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.

  • come to blows
  • how the wind blows
  • bring to a close
  • draw to a close
  • Sunday go to meeting clothes
  • handsome is as handsome does
  • as one goes
  • as the story goes
  • here goes
  • pay as one goes
  • so far as that goes
  • so it goes
  • Lord knows
  • for all one knows
  • goodness knows
  • heaven knows
  • heaven only knows
  • beyond one's nose
  • brown nose
  • by the nose
  • down one's nose
  • follow one's nose
  • lead by the nose
  • no skin off my nose
  • not see beyond one's nose
  • on the nose
  • pay through the nose
  • powder your nose
  • see beyond the end of one's nose
  • skin off one's nose
  • through the nose
  • thumb one's nose
  • under your nose
  • win by a nose
  • come up smelling like a rose
  • on one's toes
  • tread on one's toes
  • turn up one's toes
  • twinkle toes
Near Rhymes — Set #1 of 51
Near Rhymes — Set #2 of 51
  • over the coals
  • rake over old coals
  • rake over the coals
  • rake someone over the coals
Near Rhymes — Set #3 of 51

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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