eye rhyme

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English

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Etymology

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Compound of eye +‎ rhyme.

Noun

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eye rhyme (plural eye rhymes)

  1. 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.
    Synonym: sight rhyme

Further reading

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  • “eye rhyme”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
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