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double acrostic

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.10 in modern English

Syllables
dou-ble acros-tic
IPA
21
Scrabble Score
14
Letters
3
Syllables
12
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A poem whose stanzas, except the first two, are clues for words. The initial letters of these words, in order, form a word clued by the first stanza; the final letters, the second stanza.

Inflected Forms

double acrostics (plural) double-crostic (alternative)

Frequently Paired Words

triple acrostic

Questions

What does double acrostic mean?
A poem whose stanzas, except the first two, are clues for words. The initial letters of these words, in order, form a word clued by the first stanza; the final letters, the second stanza.

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