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perfect rhyme

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.55 in modern English

Syllables
per-fec-t rhyme
IPA
27
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
3
Syllables
9
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A form of rhyme in which the vowels and final (coda) consonants of stressed syllables (and, in modern English poetry, any following syllables to the end of the words) are identical in sound.

Uncountable

noun

An instance of this form of rhyme.

Countable

Usage

Inflected Forms

perfect rhymes (plural)

Synonyms

full rhyme exact rhyme true rhyme

Antonyms

imperfect rhyme half rhyme quasi-rhyme near rhyme internal rhyme

Questions

What does perfect rhyme mean?
A form of rhyme in which the vowels and final (coda) consonants of stressed syllables (and, in modern English poetry, any following syllables to the end of the words) are identical in sound.

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