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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.

  • look bleak
  • tongue in cheek
  • turn the other cheek
  • up the creek
  • spring a leak
  • past one's peak
  • widow's peak
  • fit of pique
  • quarterback sneak
  • pip squeak
  • till the pips squeak
  • talk a blue streak
  • winning streak
  • yellow streak
  • spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak
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 54
  • dirt cheap
  • get off cheap
  • on the cheap
  • beauty is only skin deep
  • in deep
  • neck deep
  • skin deep
  • still waters run deep
  • strike all of a heap
  • earn one's keep
  • look before you leap
  • as you sow, so shall you reap
  • black sheep
  • beauty sleep
  • put to sleep
  • clean sweep
Near Rhymes — Set #2 of 54
  • give the creeps
  • the creeps
  • for keeps
  • play for keeps
Near Rhymes — Set #3 of 54

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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