eye rhyme

noun

Etymology

Compound of eye + rhyme.

Definitions

  1. A pair of words (or syllables) that, because of their spelling, look as if they rhyme…

    A pair of words (or syllables) that, because of their spelling, look as if they rhyme but, because of different pronunciation, do not. Many eye rhymes are historic rhymes.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for eye rhyme. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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