Definitions for spondaic

spondaic spon·da·ic

Spelling: [spon-dey-ik]
IPA: /spɒnˈdeɪ ɪk/

Spondaic is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 379 anagrams from letters in spondaic (acdinops).

Definitions for spondaic

adjective

  1. of or relating to a spondee.
  2. noting or constituting a spondee.
  3. consisting of spondees; characterized by a spondee or spondees.

Origin of spondaic

1715-25; Late Latin spondaicus, metathetic variant of spondīacus Greek spondeiakós, equivalent to spondeî(os) spondee + -akos, variant of -ikos

Examples for spondaic

Their first group singing of a Sunday consisted of Negro spirituals in spondaic and trochaic verse, and phrased in many minors.

The result so far attained has been unsatisfactory, for the rhythms are all given as spondaic.

Note also the spondaic effect in the second line, the rime in the third, and the imitative movement in the fourth.

His versification is often hard and spondaic, the elisions too frequent, and the csura too much neglected.

If a line ends with two spondees it is a spondaic hexameter.

Word Value for spondaic
Scrable

13

Words with friends

16

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