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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.

  • drive one round the bend
  • round the bend
  • bosom friend
  • fair weather friend
  • fairweather friend
  • girl friend
  • lady friend
  • man's best friend
  • on the mend
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.

  • at both ends
  • at loose ends
  • burn the candle at both ends
  • loose ends
  • odds and ends
  • make friends
Near Rhymes — Set #1 of 85
  • dead ahead
  • get ahead
  • go ahead
  • light years ahead
  • streets ahead
  • get up on the wrong side of the bed
  • on the wrong side of the bed
  • put to bed
  • to bed
  • best thing since sliced bread
  • half a loaf is better than no bread
  • white bread
  • drop dead
  • knock 'em dead
  • stone dead
  • Dead head
  • acid head
  • beat into one's head
  • big head
  • bring to a head
  • eyes in the back of one's head
  • fat head
  • fling oneself at someone's head
  • get through one's head
  • go over one's head
  • go to one's head
  • hang one's head
  • hang over one's head
  • have a price on one's head
  • have rocks in one's head
  • heap coals of fire on one's head
  • heels over head
  • hide one's head
  • hit the nail on the head
  • in over your head
  • into one's head
  • keep a civil tongue in one's head
  • like a bear with a sore head
  • like a hole in the head
  • lose one's head
  • off one's head
  • off the top of one's head
  • over one's head
  • over your head
  • price on one's head
  • put ideas into one's head
  • rear its head
  • talk out of the back of your head
  • through one's head
  • turn one's head
  • upon one's head
  • have the lead
  • raise ned
  • sight read
  • taken as read
  • in the red
  • out of the red
  • paint the town red
  • see red
  • in good stead
  • stand in good stead
  • stand one in good stead
  • by a thread
  • hang by a thread
  • fools rush in where angels fear to tread
Near Rhymes — Set #2 of 85
  • come again
  • now and again
  • on again, off again
  • run that by me again
  • something else again
  • then again
  • time and again
  • time and time again
  • you can say that again
  • beard the lion in his own den
  • mad as a wet hen
  • beyond our ken
  • poison pen
  • slip of the pen
  • count to ten
  • five and ten
  • hang ten
  • now and then
  • say when
  • say when
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