metrical foot

Questions about metrical foot

What does metrical foot mean?

metrical foot means "(prosody) a group of 2 or 3 syllables forming the basic unit of poetic rhythm".

What is another word for metrical foot?

Close synonyms include foot, metrical unit. 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 metrical foot a common word?

metrical foot is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.