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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.

  • give oneself airs
  • put on airs
  • for all one cares
  • musical chairs
  • split hairs
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 2
End Rhymes — Set #2 of 2

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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.

  • love affair
  • castle in the air
  • castles in the air
  • clear the air
  • dead air
  • evaporate into thin air
  • get the air
  • give the air
  • go up in the air
  • hot air
  • in the air
  • into thin air
  • leave hanging in the air
  • off the air
  • on air
  • on the air
  • out of thin air
  • up in the air
  • vanish into thin air
  • walk on air
  • lay bare
  • cross to bear
  • for bear
  • loaded for bear
  • devil may care
  • have a care
  • take care
  • go to the chair
  • take the chair
  • I declare
  • all the er
  • the er the er
  • bid fair
  • play fair
  • by a hair
  • curl one's hair
  • either hide or hair
  • get in one's hair
  • give gray hair
  • hang by a hair
  • have hair
  • have in one's hair
  • hide nor hair
  • in one's hair
  • let down one's hair
  • neither hide nor hair
  • out of one's hair
  • out of your hair
  • tear one's hair
  • mad as a march hare
  • in midair
  • wing and a prayer
  • lion's share
  • go spare
  • all square
  • fair and square
  • wear and tear
  • here and there
  • jungle out there
  • neither here nor there
  • not all there
  • then and there
  • wash and wear
  • worse for wear
Near Rhymes — Set #1 of 5
  • make oneself scarce
  • make yourself scarce
Near Rhymes — Set #2 of 5
  • run scared
Near Rhymes — Set #3 of 5

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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