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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.

  • give up the ghost
  • from pillar to post
  • pillar to post
  • hot dog roast
Pure Rhymes — Set #1 of 1

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End Rhymes

Words that have a pure rhyme on their last syllable only.

  • first and foremost
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.

Near Rhymes — Set #1 of 51
  • bring to a close
  • draw to a close
Near Rhymes — Set #2 of 51
  • Jane Doe
  • John Doe
  • many moons ago
  • while ago
  • blow by blow
  • body blow
  • draw a long bow
  • more than one string to their bow
  • shot across the bow
  • take a bow
  • eat crow
  • coke flow
  • go with the flow
  • to and fro
  • There you go
  • all systems go
  • easy come, easy go
  • from the word go
  • get up and go
  • go go
  • let oneself go
  • no go
  • on the go
  • touch and go
  • great oaks from little acorns grow
  • mighty oaks from little acorns grow
  • gung ho
  • tough row to hoe
  • better the devil you know
  • in the know
  • let know
  • you know
  • feel low
  • high and low
  • lay low
  • status quo
  • ducks in a row
  • get one's ducks in a row
  • hoe one's own row
  • in a row
  • one's own row
  • raise a row
  • skid row
  • dog and pony show
  • good show
  • no show
  • road show
  • run the show
  • stand a show
  • steal the show
  • stop the show
  • talent show
  • variety show
  • whole show
  • white as snow
  • be it so
  • even so
  • how so
  • is that so
  • just so
  • or so
  • say so
  • so and so
  • so so
  • as though
  • free throw
  • stone's throw
  • within a stone's throw
  • tip toe
  • in tow
  • take in tow
Near Rhymes — Set #3 of 51

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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