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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.

  • early bird catches the worm
  • early bird gets the worm
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.

  • fine feathers do not make fine birds
  • for the birds
  • actions speak louder than words
  • man of few words
  • mark my words
  • mark one's words
  • mince words
  • on the words
  • on words
  • swallow one's words
  • war of words
  • weigh one's words
Near Rhymes — Set #1 of 43
Near Rhymes — Set #2 of 43
Near Rhymes — Set #3 of 43

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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