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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.

  • early bird
  • eat like a bird
  • like a bird
  • children should be seen and not heard
  • at one's word
  • break one's word
  • buzz word
  • get the word
  • give one's word
  • go back on one's word
  • good as one's word
  • in a word
  • keep one's word
  • last word
  • man of his word
  • mum is the word
  • mum's the word
  • say the word
  • send word
  • take at one's word
  • take one at one's word
  • take one's word
  • weasel word
  • word for word
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 121
  • hoist with one's own petard
  • hoist with your own petard
End Rhymes — Set #2 of 121
End Rhymes — Set #3 of 121

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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.

  • come down in the world
  • dead to the world
  • for all the world
  • for the world
  • fourth world
  • old world
  • on top of the world
  • out of this world
  • rise in the world
  • sitting on top of the world
  • third world
  • to the world
Near Rhymes — Set #1 of 43
  • get one's fingers burned
  • a penny saved is a penny earned
  • leave no stone unturned
Near Rhymes — Set #2 of 43
  • first come, first served
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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