noun

• A similarity between words in spelling but not in pronunciation, for example love and move.

  ‘Sound/wound: is this a full sonic rhyme or an eye rhyme?’

  More example sentences

  • ‘Many older English poems contain rhymes that were originally true or full rhymes, but as read by modern readers are now eye rhymes.’
  • ‘Thus, an eye rhyme is just a traditional rhyme in which the past identity on which the rhyme is based is preserved in the spelling.’