Difference between Rhyme and Rime

What is the difference between Rhyme and Rime?

Rhyme as a noun is verse, poetry. while Rime as a noun is ice formed by the rapid freezing of cold water droplets of fog onto a cold surface.

Rhyme

Part of speech: noun

Definition: Verse, poetry. The fact of rhyming. A word that rhymes with another.

Part of speech: verb

Definition: Of a word, to be pronounced identically with another from the vowel in its stressed syllable to the end. Of two or more words, to be pronounced identically from the vowel in the stressed syllable of each to the end of each. To put words together so that they rhyme.

Example sentence: Two of the hardest words in the language to rhyme are life and love. Of all words!

Rime

Part of speech: noun

Definition: ice formed by the rapid freezing of cold water droplets of fog onto a cold surface.a coating or sheet of ice so formed.a film or slimy coating.rhymethe 2nd part of a syllable, from the vowel on, as opposed to the onset

We hope you now know whether to use Rhyme or Rime in your sentence.

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