syncopation

About 0.16 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun The contraction of a word by means of loss or omission of sounds or syllables in the middle thereof.
2. noun The quality of a rhythm being somehow unexpected, in that it deviates from the strict succession of regularly spaced strong and weak beats in a meter.

Similar words

syncope ragtime contraction haplology aphoresis procope proparalepsis apophony epenthesis synaphea

Often followed by

of and in is with to that or as

Word family

syncopations syncopative