stave-rhyme
/steɪv.ɹaɪm/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.93 in modern English
21
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
2
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "The poem is littered with stave-rhymes like "start, stop"."
- "It is better to retain it in this line, as it is one of the 3 stave-rhymes."
- "c) MNT I 58 stave-rhymes (har/am; qat/qa) and near stave-rhymes (qu/qa) in the first five words, twofold genuine stave-rhyme (ö & ki) with grammatical assonant end-rhyme (söl/sal & sön/san) in the parallel phrases on revenge"
- "The colophon penned in flowery style with stave-rhymes relates that the words of the Zaya Pandita's translation were written […]"
- "The poem exhibits stave-rhyme."
- "Our ancestors grounded their verse on stave-rhyme and accent […]"
Etymology
Usage
Inflected Forms
stave-rhymes (plural)
stave rhyme (alternative)
staff-rhyme (alternative)
staff rhyme (alternative)
stave-rhymes (present, singular)
stave-rhyming (participle, present)
stave-rhymed (participle, past)
stave-rhymed (past)