Definitions for iamb

iamb i·amb

Spelling: [ahy-am, ahy-amb]
IPA: /ˈaɪ æm, ˈaɪ æmb/

Iamb is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 34 anagrams from letters in iamb (abim).

Definitions for iamb

noun

  1. a foot of two syllables, a short followed by a long in quantitative meter, or an unstressed followed by a stressed in accentual meter, as in Come live / with me / and be / my love.

Origin of iamb

First recorded in 1835-45; short for iambus

Examples for iamb

The group seems a sort of combination of the iamb and trochee, and has an element in every possible zone of the movement cycle.

The group seems an iamb with a duplicated unaccented syllable.

Some, however, refer it to the supposed lop-sidedness or inequality of badgers' feet, answering to the ⏑— of the iamb.

They are both within the zone of the unaccented syllable of the iamb.

Occasionally, however, and especially in the longer poems, the regular recurrence of the iamb is a little monotonous.

Word Value for iamb
Scrable

8

Words with friends

10

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