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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.

  • head in the clouds
  • head is in the clouds
  • in the clouds
Pure Rhymes — Set #1 of 1

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End Rhymes

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

There are no end rhymes for "crowds".
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.

  • under a cloud
  • two's company; three's a crowd
  • for crying out loud
  • out loud
  • think out loud
  • do proud
Near Rhymes — Set #1 of 33
  • by leaps and bounds
  • out of bounds
  • within bounds
  • with the hounds
  • go the rounds
  • make rounds
Near Rhymes — Set #2 of 33
  • after hours
  • all hours
  • at all hours
  • keep late hours
  • open all hours
  • until all hours
  • wee hours
Near Rhymes — Set #3 of 33

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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