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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.

  • stone deaf
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.

  • catch one's breath
  • don't hold your breath
  • hold one's breath
  • in the same breath
  • out of breath
  • save one's breath
  • second breath
  • short of breath
  • take a long breath
  • under one's breath
  • under your breath
  • waste one's breath
  • between life and death
  • bore to death
  • cheat death
  • do to death
  • done to death
  • fate worse than death
  • frightened to death
  • kiss of death
  • matter of life and death
  • meet one's death
  • scare to death
  • sick to death
  • tickle to death
  • to death
Near Rhymes — Set #1 of 85
  • do a stretch
  • home stretch
Near Rhymes — Set #2 of 85
  • cutting edge
  • on edge
  • set one's teeth on edge
  • take off the edge
  • the edge
  • take the pledge
  • drive a wedge
  • flying wedge
  • thin end of the wedge
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