ïambic
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
1
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "His improvement in the knowledge of prosody was truly extraordinary; he soon acquired a proficiency in all the varieties of Roman metre, so that he was able to scan the trochaïc and ïambic verses of Terence, before his companions even suspected that they were anything but mere prose."
- "Klopstock has banished Alexandrines from German poetry; he has substituted in their stead hexameters, and ïambic verses without rhyme, according to the practice of the English, which give much greater liberty to the imagination.[…]The harmony of hexameters, and above all of ïambic verses, when without rhyme, is only natural harmony, inspired by sentiment: it is a marked and distinct declamation; while the Alexandrine verse imposes a certain species and turn of expression, from which it is difficult to get free."
- "For example, the foot is not frequently referred to in studies of rhythmical-metrical organisation of Russian; also, it couldn’t be stated whether the Russian possesses the ïambic or trochaic foots^([sic])."
Inflected Forms
more ïambic (comparative)
most ïambic (superlative)