Trochee is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for TROCHEE in dictionary:

NOUN:
• a type of metrical foot, also TROCHAIC
• a foot consisting of one long or stressed syllable followed by one short or unstressed syllable.
• metrical foot of one long and one short syllable
• A foot of two syllables, the first long and the second short, as in the Latin word ante, or the first accented and the second unaccented, as in the English word motion; a choreus.
• a metrical unit with stressed-unstressed syllables

Words related to TROCHEE

choree11 trochees13

Words that contain TROCHEE

trochees13 ditrochee15 ditrochees16

How to use TROCHEE in a sentence

• The prolongation of the foot pause would make the dactyl but a modified trochee.
• The trochee and the dactyl are both accented on the first syllable and may, therefore, be interchanged.
• Occasionally a poem in which the prevailing foot is iambic has a trochee for the first foot of a line in order that it may begin with an accented syllable.

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