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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.

  • feel a draft
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 2
End Rhymes — Set #2 of 2

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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.

  • on one's behalf
  • separate the wheat from the chaff
  • blow the gaff
  • stand the gaff
  • better half
  • half and half
  • in half
  • time and a half
  • too by half
  • get the last laugh
  • last laugh
Near Rhymes — Set #1 of 74
Near Rhymes — Set #2 of 74
  • high-wire act
  • one's act
  • put on an act
  • read someone the riot act
  • read the riot act
  • as a matter of fact
  • in point of fact
  • matter of fact
Near Rhymes — Set #3 of 74

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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