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This is a list of candidates for the longest English word of one syllable, i.e. monosyllables with the most letters. A list of 9,123 English monosyllables published in 1957 includes three ten-letter words: scraunched, scroonched, and squirreled. [1] Guinness World Records lists scraunched and strengthed. [2]
In rapping and poetry, multisyllabic rhymes (also known as compound[1][2][3] rhymes, polysyllable[1][4][5] rhymes, and sometimes colloquially in hip-hop as multis[1]) are rhymes that contain two or more syllables [1][6] An example is as follows: This is my last race / I’m at a fast pace. Multisyllabic rhyme is used extensively in hip-hop, and ...
semirhyme: a rhyme with an extra syllable on one word. (bend, ending) forced (or oblique): a rhyme with an imperfect match in sound. (green, fiend; one, thumb) assonance: matching vowels. (shake, hate) Assonance is sometimes referred to as slant rhymes, along with consonance.
The longest English word typable using only the top row of letters has 11 letters: rupturewort. The word teetertotter (used in North American English) is longer at 12 letters, although it is usually spelled with a hyphen. The longest using only the middle row is shakalshas (10 letters).
Perfect and imperfect rhymes. Perfect rhyme — also called full rhyme, exact rhyme, [ 1 ] or true rhyme — is a form of rhyme between two words or phrases, satisfying the following conditions: [ 2 ][ 3 ] The stressed vowel sound in both words must be identical, as well as any subsequent sounds. For example, the words "kit" and "bit" form a ...
Words used at this level have consistent grapheme-phoneme correspondences (GPCs). Level 2 - Complex words. Consonant clusters are introduced, in addition to application of specific rules. This includes the introduction of the soft C, the soft G, and the silent E, which may change its preceding vowel into its "long" vowel sound.
A syllable is a unit of organization for a sequence of speech sounds, typically made up of a syllable nucleus (most often a vowel) with optional initial and final margins (typically, consonants). Syllables are often considered the phonological "building blocks" of words. [ 1 ] They can influence the rhythm of a language, its prosody, its poetic ...
Lyric setting. Lyric setting is the process in songwriting of placing textual content (lyrics) in the context of musical rhythm, in which the lyrical meter and musical rhythm are in proper alignment as to preserve the natural shape of the language and promote prosody. Prosody is defined as "an appropriate relationship between elements."