rock-and-roll

Questions about rock-and-roll

What does rock-and-roll mean?

rock-and-roll means "a genre of popular music originating in the 1950s; a blend of black rhythm-and-blues with white country-and-western".

How many syllables are in rock-and-roll?

rock-and-roll has 3 syllables: roc-k-an-d-roll. The stress falls on "roc". In IPA it is /ˈɹɑˈkænˈdɹoʊl/.

What is another word for rock-and-roll?

Close synonyms include rock 'n' roll, rock'n'roll, rock and roll, rock, rock music. 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 rock-and-roll a common word?

rock-and-roll 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 rock-and-roll?

1 word rhymes with rock-and-roll. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.