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half rhyme

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.55 in modern English

Syllables
half rhyme
IPA
23
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
1
Syllables
8
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A form of imperfect rhyme in which the final (coda) consonants of stressed syllables (and, in modern English poetry, any following syllables to the end of the words) are identical in sound, but the vowels of the stressed syllables are not.

Uncountable

noun

An instance of this form of rhyme.

Countable

Usage

Inflected Forms

half rhymes (plural)

Synonyms

near rhyme quasi-rhyme slant rhyme

Antonyms

exact rhyme full rhyme perfect rhyme

Questions

What does half rhyme mean?
A form of imperfect rhyme in which the final (coda) consonants of stressed syllables (and, in modern English poetry, any following syllables to the end of the words) are identical in sound, but the vowels of the stressed syllables are not.

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