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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.

  • off the beam
  • on the beam
  • like a cat that got the cream
  • vanishing cream
  • pipe dream
  • color scheme
  • blow off steam
  • gather steam
  • under one's own steam
  • against the stream
  • swim against the stream
  • SWAT team
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
  • change horses in midstream
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 54
  • chicken feed
  • off one's feed
  • spoon feed
  • get one's brains fried
  • take heed
  • a friend in need is a friend indeed
  • have the lead
  • sight read
  • taken as read
  • go to seed
  • run to seed
  • mach speed
  • more haste, less speed
  • up to speed
  • demon weed
Near Rhymes — Set #2 of 54
  • make believe
  • French leave
  • absent without leave
  • gardening leave
  • shore leave
  • take French leave
  • ace up your sleeve
  • card up one's sleeve
  • card up your sleeve
  • have a trick up your sleeve
  • in one's sleeve
  • laugh in one's sleeve
  • pin one's heart on one's sleeve
  • put one's heart on one's sleeve
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."

  • la + creme
  • law + seem
Mosaic Rhymes — Set #1 of 1