diacritic

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Pronunciation

• (British) IPA: /daɪəˈkɹɪtɪk/

Adjective

diacritic

1. distinguishing
2. (orthography, not comparable) Denoting a distinguishing mark applied to a letter or character.

Synonyms

• diacritical

Noun

diacritic (plural diacritics)

1. A special mark added to a letter to indicate a different pronunciation, stress, tone, or meaning.

   Synonyms: diacritical#Noun, diacritical mark

   Hyponyms: accent, accent mark (synonymous in loose usage); cedilla, diaeresis, röck döts, tilde, tone mark, umlaut

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