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common meter

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.06 in modern English

Syllables
com-mon me-ter
IPA
19
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A hymn metre characterized by a quatrain of alternating lines of iambic tetrameter and iambic trimeter.

Uncountable

Example Sentences

Usage

Inflected Forms

common metre (alternative)

Phrases

long meter short meter

Frequently Paired Words

long meter short meter

Synonyms

common measure

Questions

What does common meter mean?
A hymn metre characterized by a quatrain of alternating lines of iambic tetrameter and iambic trimeter.

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