half rhyme

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half rhyme

noun half rhymes

uncountable A form of imperfect rhyme in which the final (coda) consonants of stressed syllables (and, in modern English poetry, any following syllables to the end of the words) are identical in sound, but the vowels of the stressed syllables are not.
Similar: near rhyme, quasi-rhyme, slant rhyme · Opposite: exact rhyme, full rhyme, perfect rhyme
countable An instance of this form of rhyme.

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@misc{half_rhyme_2026,
  title = {half rhyme},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/half%20rhyme},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}