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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.

  • at the seams
  • burst at the seams
  • come apart at the seams
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 3
End Rhymes — Set #2 of 3
End Rhymes — Set #3 of 3

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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.

  • off the beam
  • on the beam
  • like a cat that got the cream
  • vanishing cream
  • pipe dream
  • color scheme
  • blow off steam
  • gather steam
  • under one's own steam
  • against the stream
  • swim against the stream
  • SWAT team
Near Rhymes — Set #1 of 54
  • all ears
  • around one's ears
  • believe one's ears
  • bring down around one's ears
  • dry behind the ears
  • little pitchers have big ears
  • music to my ears
  • music to one's ears
  • prick up one's ears
  • pull down around one's ears
  • up to one's ears
  • walls have ears
  • wet behind the ears
Near Rhymes — Set #2 of 54
  • my heart bleeds
  • sow the seeds
Near Rhymes — Set #3 of 54

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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