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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.

  • high-wire act
  • one's act
  • put on an act
  • read someone the riot act
  • read the riot act
  • as a matter of fact
  • in point of fact
  • matter of fact
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 3
End Rhymes — Set #2 of 3
End Rhymes — Set #3 of 3

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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.

  • take aback
  • answer back
  • back to back
  • behind one's back
  • behind someone's back
  • brush back
  • cast your mind back
  • come back
  • cut back
  • date back
  • double back
  • draw back
  • drop back
  • fade back
  • fall back
  • flanker back
  • from way back
  • get off one's back
  • give the shirt off one's back
  • hark back
  • hold back
  • in the back
  • keep back
  • kick back
  • like water off a duck's back
  • look back
  • monkey on one's back
  • off a duck's back
  • off one's back
  • on one's back
  • on the back
  • out back
  • pat on the back
  • piggy back
  • pin one's ears back
  • scratch one's back
  • set back
  • sit back
  • stab in the back
  • straw that breaks the camel's back
  • straw that broke the camel's back
  • take back
  • taken back
  • turn the clock back
  • water off a duck's back
  • while back
  • world on one's back
  • in the black
  • jet black
  • pot call the kettle black
  • pot calling the kettle black
  • tough nut to crack
  • every man jack
  • ahead of the pack
  • get the sack
  • give the sack
  • hit the sack
  • leave holding the sack
  • the sack
  • blow one's stack
  • blow your stack
  • change tack
  • go sit on a tack
  • sharp as a tack
  • beaten track
  • get the inside track
  • inside track
  • jump the track
  • keep track
  • lose track
  • off the beaten track
  • on the wrong track
  • throw off the track
  • out of whack
  • yakib yak
Near Rhymes — Set #1 of 74
  • no questions asked
Near Rhymes — Set #2 of 74
Near Rhymes — Set #3 of 74

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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