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syncopation

noun

Music (especially dance music) that has a syncopated rhythm

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Word length
11
Starts with
S
Ends with
N
Contains
YN
Scrabble score
18

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noun

  1. Music (especially dance music) that has a syncopated rhythm

noun

  1. A musical rhythm accenting a normally weak beat

noun

  1. (phonology) the loss of sounds from within a word (as in ‘fo'c'sle’ for ‘forecastle’)

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