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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.

  • go awry
  • abide by
  • by and by
  • come by
  • do well by
  • get by
  • give the go by
  • go by
  • lay by
  • pass by
  • put by
  • set great store by
  • set store by
  • sit by
  • squeak by
  • stand by
  • stop by
  • swear by
  • what's by
  • by the bye
  • far cry
  • hue and cry
  • cross one's heart and hope to die
  • do or die
  • never say die
  • hang out to dry
  • high and dry
  • keep your powder dry
  • leave high and dry
  • run dry
  • watching paint dry
  • bar fly
  • feathers fly
  • make the feathers fly
  • on the fly
  • pigs might fly
  • pop fly
  • sacrifice fly
  • will never fly
  • French fry
  • bigger fish to fry
  • fish fry
  • other fish to fry
  • small fry
  • something goodbye
  • fall guy
  • nice guy
  • wise guy
  • flying high
  • knee high
  • riding high
  • let sleeping dogs lie
  • the big lie
  • white lie
  • easy as pie
  • eat humble pie
  • finger in the pie
  • have a finger in the pie
  • sweetie pie
  • once bitten, twice shy
  • bear in the sky
  • out of a clear blue sky
  • pie in the sky
  • reach for the sky
  • on the sly
  • in short supply
  • hog tie
  • old school tie
  • old college try
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 22
End Rhymes — Set #2 of 22
End Rhymes — Set #3 of 22

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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.

  • all walks of life
  • bet one's life
  • breath of life
  • change of life
  • charmed life
  • come to life
  • dog's life
  • facts of life
  • for dear life
  • get a life
  • have the time of one's life
  • in the prime of life
  • large as life
  • larger than life
  • lay down one's life
  • lead a dog's life
  • new lease of life
  • new lease on life
  • night life
  • not on your life
  • of one's life
  • on your life
  • real life
  • still life
  • time of one's life
  • time of your life
  • walk of life
  • within an inch of one's life
  • you bet your life
  • the world and his wife
Near Rhymes — Set #1 of 42
  • mountain to climb
  • not worth a dime
  • on a dime
  • turn on a dime
  • about time
  • ahead of time
  • all in good time
  • at a set time
  • at a time
  • at one time
  • at the same time
  • beat time
  • behind time
  • bide one's time
  • big time
  • doing time
  • fast time
  • fight against time
  • from time to time
  • fullness of time
  • give a hard time
  • good time
  • half time
  • have a time
  • high time
  • in due time
  • in the nick of time
  • in time
  • it's high time
  • just in the nick of time
  • just in time
  • keep good time
  • keep time
  • kill time
  • less than no time
  • live on borrowed time
  • make good time
  • make time
  • mark time
  • nick of time
  • on borrowed time
  • on one's own time
  • on time
  • once upon a time
  • question of time
  • race against time
  • serve time
  • slow time
  • small time
  • some other time
  • take one's time
  • tell time
  • the sands of time
  • to the end of time
  • two time
Near Rhymes — Set #2 of 42
  • smoke the peace pipe
  • time is ripe
  • midfield stripe
Near Rhymes — Set #3 of 42

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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