Pure Rhymes
– 1 rhyme
Words that have identical vowel-based rhyme sounds in the tonic syllable. Moreover, that tonic syllable must start with a different consonantal sound.
End Rhymes
– 3 rhymes
Words that have a pure rhyme on their last syllable only.
thousandthsseventhsbillionths
Near Rhymes
– 1718 rhymes
Words that "almost" rhyme on the vowel-based rhyme sound of the stressed syllable like: be/eat or maybe/shapely.
bluntsfront'sfrontsgruntshuntspuntsstunts
bluntbruntbuntfrontgrunthuntmuntpuntshuntstunt
- bear the brunt
- good front
- home front
- up front
- cluck and grunt
- run with the hare and hunt
- witch hunt
abutrebutsomewhatuncut HuttKnutMcNuttScuttTuttI tell you what
- all but
- anything but
- cannot but
- clear cut
- lickety cut
- off one's nut
- keep one's mouth shut
- open and shut
- tut tut
- I tell you what
- know what's what
- no matter what
- so what
- tell you what
- what is what
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.