rock'n'roll

Questions about rock'n'roll

What does rock'n'roll mean?

rock'n'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'n'roll?

rock'n'roll has 3 syllables, though it cannot be divided in writing — the spelling has fewer vowels than the word has beats. In IPA it is /ˈɹɑkənˈɹoʊl/.

What is another word for rock'n'roll?

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

rock'n'roll 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.

What rhymes with rock'n'roll?

5 words rhyme with rock'n'roll. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.