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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.

  • fish or cut bait
  • blind date
  • double date
  • out of date
  • pull date
  • to date
  • up to date
  • one over the eight
  • fourth estate
  • fickle finger of fate
  • tempt fate
  • the fickle finger of fate
  • crash the gate
  • first out of the gate
  • give the gate
  • of late
  • stay up late
  • home plate
  • step up to the plate
  • at any rate
  • at that rate
  • cut rate
  • second rate
  • clean slate
  • in state
  • lie in state
  • get straight
  • give it to one straight
  • go straight
  • in wait
  • lie in wait
  • carry weight
  • pull one's weight
  • pull your weight
  • swing one's weight
Pure Rhymes — Set #1 of 1

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End Rhymes

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

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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.

  • 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
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  • as hard as nails
  • bed of nails
  • hard as nails
  • off the rails
  • out of one's sails
  • take the wind out of one's sails
  • turn the scales
  • heads or tails
Near Rhymes — Set #2 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."

  • be + eight
  • be + fate
  • be + great
  • be + late
  • be + state
  • be + straight
  • be + weight
  • free + rate
  • free + state
  • free + weight
  • he + ate
  • he + date
  • he + gate
  • he + great
  • he + hate
  • he + late
  • he + rate
  • he + sate
  • he + state
  • he + straight
  • he + wait
  • he + weight
  • key + date
  • key + state
  • key + trait
  • knee + straight
  • me + eight
  • me + great
  • me + hate
  • me + late
  • me + state
  • me + straight
  • me + wait
  • re + great
  • re + late
  • see + eight
  • see + great
  • see + Kate
  • see + plate
  • see + state
  • see + straight
  • she + ate
  • she + great
  • she + hate
  • she + sate
  • she + straight
  • she + wait
  • Tennessee + state
  • thee + great
  • thee + late
  • thee + straight
  • thee + wait
  • three + eight
  • three + great
  • three + late
  • three + state
  • three + straight
  • we + ate
  • we + date
  • we + hate
  • we + rate
  • we + sate
  • we + state
  • we + wait
  • ye + great
  • ye + hate
  • ye + late
  • ye + wait
Mosaic Rhymes — Set #1 of 1