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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.

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.

  • bring someone to book
  • by the book
  • closed book
  • crack a book
  • every trick in the book
  • in my book
  • like a book
  • make book
  • nose in a book
  • oldest trick in the book
  • open book
  • read one like a book
  • take a leaf out of someone's book
  • talking book
  • use every trick in the book
  • short order cook
  • by hook or by crook
  • get off the hook
  • get the hook
  • give the hook
  • let off the hook
  • off the hook
  • on one's own hook
  • dirty look
Near Rhymes — Set #1 of 20
  • close the books
  • for the books
  • hit the books
  • in my bad books
  • in my good books
  • in one's good books
  • keep books
  • one for the books
Near Rhymes — Set #2 of 20
Near Rhymes — Set #3 of 20

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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