Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

quasi-rhyme

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.22 in modern English

Syllables: quasi-rhyme
IPA

27

Scrabble Score

10

Letters

2

Syllables

10

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Somewhat of a rhyme.

Uncountable

Example Sentences

"An oldish parishioner of my own gave me many years ago the quasi rhyme, or its rags and tatters."
"A similar pattern, mingling elements of alliteration, assonance, quasi-rhyme, and meaningful allusion ingeniously is seen in the following example."
"Perhaps this quasi-rhyme royal stanza right at the end of a quasi-ballade is a nose-thumbing gesture at Chaucher's French contemporaries and the oppressive formal convention they represent;"
"but they make significant use of rhyme, imperfect rhyme, pararhyme, quasi-rhyme between identical words, rhyme between the end of a line and the inside of a line, rhyme between stressed and unstressed syllables."
"Hall referred to these as false rhymes, but I prefer the label quasi-rhymes."

Etymology

From quasi- + rhyme.

Word Breakdown

Prefix: quasi

Usage

Uncountable

Inflected Forms

quasi-rhymes (plural) quasirhyme (alternative)

Frequently Paired Words

half rhyme near rhyme

Questions

What does quasi-rhyme mean?: Somewhat of a rhyme.
Where does quasi-rhyme come from?: From quasi- + rhyme.

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