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  2. List of English words without rhymes - Wikipedia

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    The following is a list of English words without rhymes, called refractory rhymes—that is, a list of words in the English language that rhyme with no other English word. . The word "rhyme" here is used in the strict sense, called a perfect rhyme, that the words are pronounced the same from the vowel of the main stressed syllable onwa

  3. Perfect and imperfect rhymes - Wikipedia

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    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 perfect rhyme, as do spaghetti and already in ...

  4. Eeny, meeny, miny, moe - Wikipedia

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    The scholars Iona and Peter Opie noted that many variants have been recorded, some with additional words, such as "O. U. T. spells out, And out goes she, In the middle of the deep blue sea" [3] or "My mother [told me/says to] pick the very best one, and that is Y-O-U/you are [not] it"; [3] while another source cites "Out goes Y-O-U." [4] "Tigger" is also used instead of "tiger" in some ...

  5. List of forms of word play - Wikipedia

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    Onomatopoeia: a word or a grouping of words that imitates the sound it is describing; Phonetic reversal; Rhyme: a repetition of identical or similar sounds in two or more different words Alliteration: matching consonants sounds at the beginning of words; Assonance: matching vowel sounds; Consonance: matching consonant sounds

  6. Talk:List of English words without rhymes - Wikipedia

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    rhyme per OED (vowel of parity was wrong) 'parity' does rhyme in accents with the marry-merry-Mary merger angry hangry (neologism), nangry: these both contain 'angry': a blend and a misparsing animal disanimal, dismal this is the same word babe wabe, outgrabe, scrabe, suabe, nabe (slang) does not rhyme with astrolabe: beards (pl) Weirds (Fates)

  7. List of commonly misused English words - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of English words that are thought to be commonly misused. It is meant to include only words whose misuse is deprecated by most usage writers, editors, and professional grammarians defining the norms of Standard English.

  8. Rhyming dictionary - Wikipedia

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    A rhyming dictionary is a specialized dictionary designed for use in writing poetry and lyrics. In a rhyming dictionary, words are categorized into equivalence classes that consist of words that rhyme with one another. They also typically support several different kinds of rhymes and possibly also alliteration as well.

  9. Rhyme - Wikipedia

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    A rhyme is a repetition of similar sounds (usually the exact same phonemes) in the final stressed syllables and any following syllables of two or more words. Most often, this kind of rhyming (perfect rhyming) is consciously used for a musical or aesthetic effect in the final position of lines within poems or songs. [1]