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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.

  • great Scott
  • on the dot
  • make it hot
  • not too hot
  • piping hot
  • strike while the iron is hot
  • cut the gordian knot
  • tie the knot
  • a lot
  • sand lot
  • whole lot
  • and what not
  • as likely as not
  • more often than not
  • nothing if not
  • waste not, want not
  • what not
  • lose the plot
  • go to pot
  • gone to pot
  • melting pot
  • talk rot
  • by a long shot
  • cheap shot
  • foul shot
  • long shot
  • mug shot
  • not by a long shot
  • Johnny on the spot
  • blind spot
  • hit the spot
  • in a spot
  • rooted to the spot
  • upon the spot
  • on the trot
Pure Rhymes — Set #1 of 1

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End Rhymes

Words that have a pure rhyme on their last syllable only.

  • tempest in a teapot
End Rhymes — Set #1 of 6
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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.

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  • the penny dropped
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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.

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