I've taken a list of English words, and examined each of them to see what they sound like (using the PHP metaphone function). This page lists the most common metaphone codes, along with their words. You can also search for a word of your own, and see which words sound similar - and which ones rhyme, and which ones alliterate.
strife strafe strive starve strove strophe
strife derive drive tariff terrify torrify vitrify coderive codrive metrify midriff nitrify petrify redrive strafe strive
stria striae astray sutra strow stair star stare starry stere stereo store satire storey story straw strawy stray strew stir stroy astir estray