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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.

  • sitting on a powder keg
  • an arm and a leg
  • arm and a leg
  • break a leg
  • it cost an arm and a leg
  • last leg
  • pull someone's leg
  • shake a leg
  • square peg
  • take down a peg
  • take someone down a peg
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 85
  • sure as eggs is eggs
  • teach your grandmother to suck eggs
  • walk on eggs
  • you can't make an omelette without breaking eggs
  • on one's last legs
  • on your last legs
  • sea legs
  • tail between one's legs
Near Rhymes — Set #2 of 85
Near Rhymes — Set #3 of 85

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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