Name for words with same consonant sounds but different vowel sounds

Is there a name for words with the same consonant sounds, but different vowel sounds? For example:

  • talk, take
  • sit, site
  • taught, tote
  • bough, bow

My son has been mixing up these sets of words. I'd like to find a list of them for him to practice (we homeschool him), but I don't know what to search for.


Solution 1:

In the context of literary analysis, there are a few applicable terms:

  • Matching consonants create consonance.
  • Words that nearly rhyme are half rhymes or slant rhymes.
  • Pairs where only the vowels vary are pararhymes.

In the context of studying language, John Lawler's suggestion of minimal pair is apt: two words that differ in only a single sound that serves to distinguish them, sometimes subtly.