Mondegreens is an English word. Below you'll find 4 example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Mondegreens meaning
plural of mondegreen
Using Mondegreens
- The main meaning on this page is: plural of mondegreen
- In the example corpus, mondegreens often appears in combinations such as: mondegreens are.
Context around Mondegreens
- Average sentence length in these examples: 29.3 words
- Position in the sentence: 2 start, 0 middle, 2 end
- Sentence types: 4 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Mondegreens
- In this selection, "mondegreens" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 29.3 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, actually stand out and add context to how "mondegreens" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include are actually mondegreens of nursery and genesis of mondegreens. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "mondegreens" sits close to words such as aaaaand, aaah and aaargh, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with mondegreens
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Deliberate mondegreen main Two authors have written books of supposed foreign-language poetry that are actually mondegreens of nursery rhymes in English. (22 words)
Among schoolchildren in the U.S., daily rote recitation of the Pledge of Allegiance has long provided opportunities for the genesis of mondegreens. (23 words)
Mondegreens are most often created by a person listening to a poem or a song; the listener, being unable to clearly hear a lyric, substitutes words that sound similar, and make some kind of sense. (35 words)
Steven Connor suggests that mondegreens are the result of the brain's constant attempts to make sense of the world by making assumptions to fill in the gaps when it cannot clearly determine what it is hearing. (37 words)
Mondegreens are most often created by a person listening to a poem or a song; the listener, being unable to clearly hear a lyric, substitutes words that sound similar, and make some kind of sense. (35 words)
Among schoolchildren in the U.S., daily rote recitation of the Pledge of Allegiance has long provided opportunities for the genesis of mondegreens. (23 words)
Example sentences (4)
Among schoolchildren in the U.S., daily rote recitation of the Pledge of Allegiance has long provided opportunities for the genesis of mondegreens.
Deliberate mondegreen main Two authors have written books of supposed foreign-language poetry that are actually mondegreens of nursery rhymes in English.
Mondegreens are most often created by a person listening to a poem or a song; the listener, being unable to clearly hear a lyric, substitutes words that sound similar, and make some kind of sense.
Steven Connor suggests that mondegreens are the result of the brain's constant attempts to make sense of the world by making assumptions to fill in the gaps when it cannot clearly determine what it is hearing.
Common combinations with mondegreens
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: