unrhyme
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A line of verse that does not rhyme.
Example Sentences
- "As in Emily Dickinson there is too a fastidious precision of thought where unrhymes fill the purpose better than rhymes"
- "a class of hackwriters arose whose job was to unrhyme the verse chronicles of the trouvere and to render them in the common speech of the day"
- "He half-rhymes "one" and "groan," clearly unrhymes "still" with "days," and seems unconcerned that the second "Shiloh" has no rhyming mate."
- ""Unrhyming" — translating from verse to prose — while common in late medieval France, was relatively rare in England: coincidentally, the Gilte Legende unrhymes its verse sources"
Etymology
From un- + rhyme.
Word Breakdown
- Prefix: un