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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.

  • take a hike
  • and the like
  • feel like
  • nothing like
  • head on a spike
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 3
End Rhymes — Set #2 of 3
End Rhymes — Set #3 of 3

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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 42
  • box and dice
  • as cold as ice
  • blood turns to ice
  • break the ice
  • cut ice
  • cut no ice
  • on ice
  • put on ice
  • skate on thin ice
  • nasty nice
  • cheap at half the price
  • like white on rice
  • in a trice
  • think twice
Near Rhymes — Set #2 of 42
  • add fuel to the fire
  • ball of fire
  • baptism of fire
  • catch fire
  • cease fire
  • cross fire
  • draw fire
  • fat hits the fire
  • fat is in the fire
  • fight fire with fire
  • get on like a house on fire
  • hang fire
  • have too many irons in the fire
  • hold fire
  • into the fire
  • iron in the fire
  • irons in the fire
  • jump from the frying pan into the fire
  • line of fire
  • on fire
  • open fire
  • out of the frying pan into the fire
  • out of the frying pan, into the fire
  • play with fire
  • pull one's chestnuts out of the fire
  • pull the fat from the fire
  • set on fire
  • set the world on fire
  • sure fire
  • too many irons in the fire
  • under fire
  • with fire
  • cross the wire
  • down to the wire
  • live wire
  • under the wire
Near Rhymes — Set #3 of 42

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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