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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.

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.

  • keep abreast
  • under arrest
  • at one's best
  • at the best
  • come off second best
  • do one's best
  • for the best
  • had best
  • level best
  • second best
  • who laughs last laughs best
  • get off one's chest
  • off one's chest
  • on one's chest
  • be my guest
  • feather one's nest
  • feather your own nest
  • hornets' nest
  • mare's nest
  • stir up a hornet's nest
  • self possessed
  • under protest
  • make a request
  • lay to rest
  • parade rest
  • set one's mind at rest
  • to rest
  • acid test
  • road test
  • screen test
Near Rhymes — Set #1 of 85
Near Rhymes — Set #2 of 85
  • second guess
  • couldn't care less
  • more or less
  • much less
  • hot mess
  • hot off the press
  • yellow press
  • in progress
  • in progress
  • howling success
  • nothing succeeds like success
  • That makes two of us
Near Rhymes — Set #3 of 85

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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