eye rhymes

A form of eye rhyme — A pair of words (or syllables) that, because of their spelling, look as if they rhyme but, because of different pronunciation, do not. Many eye rhymes are historic rhymes.

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Meanings

noun
  1. pluralplural of eye rhyme
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