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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.

  • not the only pebble on the beach
  • flowery speech
  • maiden speech
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.

Near Rhymes — Set #1 of 54
Near Rhymes — Set #2 of 54
  • armed to the teeth
  • bit between your teeth
  • by the skin of one's teeth
  • by the skin of your teeth
  • cut eye teeth
  • eye teeth
  • fed to the teeth
  • fed up to the back teeth
  • give your eye teeth
  • kick in the teeth
  • lie through one's teeth
  • lie through your teeth
  • like pulling teeth
  • pick one's teeth
  • pull one's teeth
  • show one's teeth
  • take the bit in one's teeth
  • throw something in one's teeth
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