alliteration

1. 1.

   use of the same consonant at the beginning of each stressed syllable in a line of verse

   “around the rock the ragged rascal ran”

   Synonymsinitial rhymebeginning rhymehead rhyme

   Broaderrhyme

Other forms of alliteration

plural

alliterations·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about alliteration

What does alliteration mean?

alliteration means "use of the same consonant at the beginning of each stressed syllable in a line of verse".

How many syllables are in alliteration?

alliteration has 5 syllables: al-lit-e-ra-tion. The stress falls on "lit". In IPA it is /əˈlɪtɚˌeɪʃən/.

What is another word for alliteration?

Close synonyms include initial rhyme, beginning rhyme, head rhyme. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is alliteration a common word?

alliteration is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with alliteration?

133 words rhyme with alliteration. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.