RHYME
What does "RHYME" mean?
A correspondence of sound between words or word endings, especially at the ends of lines of verse.
Meanings
- The matching of final sounds in words, used as a device in poetry and song. He searched for a rhyme to pair with 'orange' and gave up.
- A short poem or verse that uses rhyming. The children chanted a nursery rhyme.
- To form or correspond as a rhyme. 'Moon' rhymes with 'June' a little too easily.
Did you know?
- The silent 'h' in rhyme is a 17th-century error: the word came from Latin 'rhythmus', and scholars re-spelled it to look more like Greek 'rhythmos'.
Word origin
From Old French 'rime', from Latin 'rhythmus'; the spelling with silent 'h' was added later by mistaken association with Greek 'rhythmos'.
Remember it
RHYME and RHYTHM are spelling twins - both got the same odd silent 'h', because one borrowed the other's looks.
A little poem
Two words reach out across the line's wide space
and meet in sound, like strangers, face to face.
couplet
Wordplay
- I wanted to end my poem with a word that rhymes with 'orange'. The poem is still unfinished.
What it teaches
Rhyme is memory's glue: we keep what chimes long after we forget what merely meant.
Quick facts
What does RHYME mean?
A correspondence of sound between words or word endings, especially at the ends of lines of verse.
Is RHYME a valid word?
Yes — RHYME is one of the answer words in Wordul, the daily word game.
How many letters is RHYME?
RHYME has 5 letters and 1 syllable.
Where does RHYME come from?
From Old French 'rime', from Latin 'rhythmus'; the spelling with silent 'h' was added later by mistaken association with Greek 'rhythmos'.
What can RHYME teach us?
Rhyme is memory's glue: we keep what chimes long after we forget what merely meant.
How players do
Be the first to solve it.