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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.

  • leave alone
  • leave well alone
  • leave well enough alone
  • let alone
  • all skin and bone
  • bred in the bone
  • crazy bone
  • cut to the bone
  • dry as a bone
  • pick a bone
  • to the bone
  • work one's fingers to the bone
  • work your fingers to the bone
  • bird has flown
  • blood out of a stone
  • cast the first stone
  • first stone
  • heart of stone
  • kill two birds with one stone
  • set in stone
  • written in stone
  • power behind the throne
  • comfort zone
  • end zone
  • in a zone
  • safety zone
Pure Rhymes — Set #1 of 1

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End Rhymes

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

  • have one's nose to the grindstone
  • hold one's nose to the grindstone
  • keep your nose to the grindstone
  • to the grindstone
End Rhymes — Set #2 of 7

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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.

  • in one's bones
  • know in one's bones
  • make no bones
  • skin and bones
  • people who live in glass houses should not throw stones
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