Spondees is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.
You can make 211 anagrams from letters in spondees (deenopss).
1350-1400; Middle English sponde Latin spondēus Greek spondeîos, derivative of spondḗ libation
But in all the feet except the fifth, a spondee ( ) may take the place of the dactyl.
A spondee is a foot of two equally accented syllables; as, mainspring, sea-maid.
“It is a spondee, and I will maintain it,” interrupted a voice on his left hand.
spondee quoted a poem he had once written about Miss Dorothy.
Now the medium of these is about fourteen syllables; because the dactyle is a more frequent foot in hexameters than the spondee.
Mr. Fabian kneeled like a dactyle: Mr. Jeremiah kneeled like a spondee, or rather like a molossus.
Now there is only here and there a word in the whole English language that is a spondee.
Pain is always by the side of joy, the spondee by the dactyl.
There is, in fact, no such thing as a spondee in ordinary speech.
spondee, who is a critic, is seldom out of this fine man's company.
Mr. Fabian kneeled like a dactyle: Mr. Jeremiah kneeled like a spondee, or rather like a molossus.
spondee, who is a critic, is seldom out of this fine man's company.
Pain is always by the side of joy, the spondee by the dactyl.
There is, in fact, no such thing as a spondee in ordinary speech.
Now the medium of these is about fourteen syllables; because the dactyle is a more frequent foot in hexameters than the spondee.
“It is a spondee, and I will maintain it,” interrupted a voice on his left hand.
spondee quoted a poem he had once written about Miss Dorothy.
Now there is only here and there a word in the whole English language that is a spondee.
A spondee is a foot of two equally accented syllables; as, mainspring, sea-maid.
But in all the feet except the fifth, a spondee ( ) may take the place of the dactyl.
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