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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.

  • drag oneself up by one's boot straps
  • blow taps
  • under wraps
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
  • by one's own bootstraps
  • by the bootstraps
  • pull oneself up by one's own bootstraps
  • pull yourself up by your bootstraps
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 74
Near Rhymes — Set #2 of 74
  • feather in one's cap
  • feather in your cap
  • put on one's thinking cap
  • thinking cap
  • old chap
  • credibility gap
  • generation gap
  • mind the gap
  • the gap
  • last lap
  • all over the map
  • on the map
  • put on the map
  • cat nap
  • beat the rap
  • take the rap
  • cold snap
  • boot strap
  • bear trap
  • like a steel trap
  • mind like a steel trap
  • sand trap
  • speed trap
  • tax trap
  • tourist trap
Near Rhymes — Set #3 of 74

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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