consonance
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 14
- Words With Friends
- 19
- Letters
- 10
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Definition of consonance
2 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included
noun
- (countable, uncountable)A form of rhyme having the same consonants but different vowels.
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noun
- (countable, uncountable)A form of rhyme having the same consonants but different vowels.
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(countable, uncountable)Harmony; agreement; absence of discordance.
“Like a musical string, the optic nerve responds to the waves with which it is in consonance, while it refuses to be excited by others of almost infinitely greater energy, whose period of recurrence are not in unison with its own.”
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Etymology
From Middle English consonance, from Middle French consonance, from Latin cōnsonantia. Doublet of consonancy. By surface analysis, con- + son- + -ance.
Words you can make from consonance
120 playable · top: COONCANS (12 pts)
Best play cooncans 12 points7-letter words
6 words6-letter words
10 words5-letter words
27 words- COCAS 9 pts
- COCOA 9 pts
- COCOS 9 pts
- COSEC 9 pts
- SECCO 9 pts
- ACNES 7 pts
- ANCON 7 pts
- ASCON 7 pts
- CANES 7 pts
- CANOE 7 pts
- CANON 7 pts
- CANSO 7 pts
- CONES 7 pts
- CONNS 7 pts
- COONS 7 pts
- NONCE 7 pts
- OCEAN 7 pts
- SCENA 7 pts
- SCONE 7 pts
- AEONS 5 pts
- NANOS 5 pts
- NEONS 5 pts
- NONAS 5 pts
- NONES 5 pts
- NOONS 5 pts
- NOOSE 5 pts
- SENNA 5 pts
4-letter words
37 words- CECA 8 pts
- COCA 8 pts
- COCO 8 pts
- ACES 6 pts
- ACNE 6 pts
- CANE 6 pts
- CANS 6 pts
- CASE 6 pts
- CONE 6 pts
- CONN 6 pts
- CONS 6 pts
- COON 6 pts
- COOS 6 pts
- ECOS 6 pts
- OCAS 6 pts
- ONCE 6 pts
- SCAN 6 pts
- SOCA 6 pts
- AEON 4 pts
- ANES 4 pts
- ANON 4 pts
- EONS 4 pts
- NAES 4 pts
- NANO 4 pts
- NANS 4 pts
- NAOS 4 pts
- NEON 4 pts
- NOES 4 pts
- NONA 4 pts
- NONE 4 pts
- NOON 4 pts
- NOSE 4 pts
- ONES 4 pts
- ONOS 4 pts
- SANE 4 pts
- SONE 4 pts
- SOON 4 pts
3-letter words
27 words2-letter words
12 wordsHooks
1 extension · 1 back
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