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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.

  • have one's wings clipped
  • tight lipped
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.

Near Rhymes — Set #1 of 86
Near Rhymes — Set #2 of 86
  • lose one's grip
  • joined at the hip
  • shoot from the hip
  • bite your lip
  • keep a stiff upper lip
  • many a slip twixt cup and lip
  • slip of the lip
  • stiff upper lip
  • zip one's lip
  • let it rip
  • give up the ship
  • landing ship
  • like a rat deserting a sinking ship
  • rudderless ship
  • run a tight ship
  • tight ship
  • freudian slip
  • give the slip
  • let slip
  • pink slip
  • sales slip
  • drag strip
  • bad trip
  • round trip
  • buggy whip
  • crack the whip
  • fair crack of the whip
  • fair shake of the whip
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