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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 someone ape
  • go ape
  • bow and scrape
  • pinch and scrape
  • bad shape
  • good shape
  • in poor shape
  • lick into shape
  • take shape
  • friction tape
  • masking tape
  • red tape
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.

  • clean break
  • coffee break
  • get a break
  • make or break
  • take a break
  • tough break
  • pat a cake
  • piece of cake
  • pieces of the same cake
  • piss into the wedding cake
  • take the cake
  • jake flake
  • go jump in the lake
  • on the make
  • by mistake
  • thin as a rake
  • for Heaven's sake
  • for one's sake
  • fair shake
  • at stake
  • Salisbury steak
  • T bone steak
  • do a double take
  • double take
  • give and take
  • give or take
  • on the take
Near Rhymes — Set #1 of 47
  • first base
  • not to get to first base
  • off base
  • reach first base
  • third base
  • to first base
  • touch base
  • basket case
  • couch case
  • just in case
  • nut case
  • on the case
  • vanity case
  • cut to the chase
  • give chase
  • lead a merry chase
  • wild goose chase
  • about face
  • blow up in one's face
  • blue in the face
  • butt face
  • cut off one's nose to spite one's face
  • cut off your nose to spite your face
  • egg on your face
  • face to face
  • hatchet face
  • in one's face
  • in the face
  • in your face
  • keep a straight face
  • long face
  • look in the face
  • lose face
  • make a face
  • plain as the nose on your face
  • pull a long face
  • save face
  • shoot off one's face
  • show one's face
  • slap in the face
  • stare in the face
  • straight face
  • till you're blue in the face
  • to one's face
  • to spite one's face
  • volte face
  • wipe the smile of someone's face
  • written all over your face
  • day of grace
  • fall from grace
  • from grace
  • period of grace
  • saving grace
  • with a bad grace
  • with good grace
  • at a snail's pace
  • change of pace
  • keep pace
  • snail's pace
  • all over the place
  • between a rock and a hard place
  • feel out of place
  • haircut place
  • have one's heart in the right place
  • heart in the right place
  • high place
  • in another's place
  • in place
  • in the first place
  • in the place
  • in the same place
  • in the second place
  • in the third place
  • into place
  • jumping off place
  • know one's place
  • know your place
  • lightning never strikes twice in the same place
  • out of place
  • put in one's place
  • put one in one's place
  • take place
  • drag race
  • rat race
  • outer space
  • without a trace
Near Rhymes — Set #2 of 47
  • cut a swathe
Near Rhymes — Set #3 of 47

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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."

There are no mosaic rhymes for "escape".
Mosaic Rhymes — Set #1 of 1