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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.

  • build castles in Spain
  • castles in Spain
  • Bruce Wayne
  • come again
  • now and again
  • on again, off again
  • run that by me again
  • something else again
  • then again
  • time and again
  • time and time again
  • you can say that again
  • bird brain
  • on the brain
  • rack one's brain
  • rack your brain
  • raise cain
  • whispering campaign
  • pull your chain
  • brain drain
  • down the drain
  • go down the drain
  • pour money down the drain
  • against the grain
  • go against the grain
  • plain jane
  • bullet lane
  • live in the fast lane
  • lovers' lane
  • stroll down memory lane
  • in the main
  • with might and main
  • feel no pain
  • give a pain
  • know enough to come in out of the rain
  • out of the rain
  • right as rain
  • free rein
  • tight rein
  • gravy train
  • ride the gravy train
  • through train
  • in vain
  • take one's name in vain
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.

  • clean break
  • coffee break
  • get a break
  • make or break
  • take a break
  • tough break
  • pat a cake
  • piece of cake
  • pieces of the same cake
  • piss into the wedding cake
  • take the cake
  • jake flake
  • go jump in the lake
  • on the make
  • by mistake
  • thin as a rake
  • for Heaven's sake
  • for one's sake
  • fair shake
  • at stake
  • Salisbury steak
  • T bone steak
  • do a double take
  • double take
  • give and take
  • give or take
  • on the take
Near Rhymes — Set #1 of 47
  • take aim
  • to blame
  • stake a claim
  • add fuel to the flame
  • an old flame
  • old flame
  • ahead of the game
  • at stage of the game
  • ball game
  • be game
  • love game
  • name of the game
  • on the game
  • pick-up game
  • play a waiting game
  • play the game
  • skin in the game
  • still in the game
  • whole new ball game
  • clear one's name
  • drop name
  • handle to one's name
  • in name
  • pet name
  • to one's name
  • just the same
  • one and the same
  • damn shame
  • for shame
  • put to shame
  • to shame
Near Rhymes — Set #2 of 47
  • of no avail
  • to little avail
  • to no avail
  • out on bail
  • skip bail
  • devil is in the detail
  • without fail
  • within hail
  • coffin nail
  • fight tooth and nail
  • pay on the nail
  • tooth and nail
  • beyond the pale
  • third rail
  • set sail
  • no sale
  • on sale
  • white sale
  • off the scale
  • to scale
  • between two shakes of a lamb's tail
  • coat tail
  • cows tail
  • get off one's tail
  • head nor tail
  • in two shakes of a lamb's tail
  • turn tail
  • blaze a trail
  • like a beached whale
Near Rhymes — Set #3 of 47

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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."

  • the + bane
  • the + Blaine
  • the + brain
  • the + Cain
  • the + cane
  • the + chain
  • the + crane
  • the + Dane
  • the + drain
  • the + Duane
  • the + fain
  • the + gain
  • the + grain
  • the + Jain
  • the + Jane
  • the + Kane
  • the + lain
  • the + lane
  • the + main
  • the + Maine
  • the + mane
  • the + pain
  • the + Paine
  • the + pane
  • the + Payne
  • the + plain
  • the + plane
  • the + rain
  • the + reign
  • the + rein
  • the + sane
  • the + slain
  • the + Spain
  • the + sprain
  • the + stain
  • the + strain
  • the + swain
  • the + thane
  • the + train
  • the + twain
  • the + vain
  • the + vane
  • the + vein
  • the + wain
  • the + wane
  • the + Wayne
Mosaic Rhymes — Set #1 of 1