Definitions For Homeoteleuton

Noun

HOMEOTELEUTON (plural homeoteleuta or s) The repetition of endings in words; near rhyme. The accidental omission, when copying a text, of a passage between repeated words or phrases, as the eye skips from one to the next without noticing the words between.

Alternative forms

homoeoteleuton homoioteleuton

Etymology

Borrowed from "like ending".

Is Homeoteleuton a Scrabble Word?

Words With Friends NO
Scrabble US NO
Scrabble UK NO
English International (SOWPODS) YES
Scrabble Global NO
Enable1 Dictionary NO

Points in Different Games

Scrabble
18
Words with Friends
21

The word Homeoteleuton is worth 18 points in Scrabble and 21 points in Words with Friends

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