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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.

  • on the blink
  • nurse a drink
  • soft drink
  • you can lead a horse to water, but you can't make it drink
  • missing link
  • skating rink
  • everything but the kitchen sink
  • heart sink
  • kitchen sink
  • big stink
  • raise a stink
  • little does one think
  • shudder to think
  • nod's as good as a wink
  • sleep a wink
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.

  • high jinks
  • catch forty winks
  • forty winks
Near Rhymes — Set #1 of 86
Near Rhymes — Set #2 of 86
  • have one's fling
  • fit for a king
  • mood ring
  • throw your hat in the ring
  • toss one's hat in the ring
  • have one's ass in a sling
  • full of the joys of spring
  • first string
  • how long is a piece of string
  • latch string
  • on a string
  • full swing
  • in full swing
  • in the swing
  • a little knowledge is a dangerous thing
  • do one's own thing
  • for one thing
  • not the thing
  • quite the thing
  • sure thing
  • the in thing
  • left wing
  • on the wing
  • right wing
  • take under one's wing
  • under one's wing
Near Rhymes — Set #3 of 86

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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