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diacritical mark
Thesaurus| Noun | 1. | diacritical mark - a mark added to a letter to indicate a special pronunciationdiacriticmark - a written or printed symbol (as for punctuation); "his answer was just a punctuation mark"accent mark, accent - a diacritical mark used to indicate stress or placed above a vowel to indicate a special pronunciationbreve - a diacritical mark (U-shaped) placed over a vowel to indicate a short soundcedilla - a diacritical mark (,) placed below the letter c to indicate that it is pronounced as an scircumflex - a diacritical mark (^) placed above a vowel in some languages to indicate a special phonetic qualityhacek, wedge - a diacritical mark (an inverted circumflex) placed above certain letters (such as the letter c) to indicate pronunciationmacron - a diacritical mark (-) placed above a vowel to indicate a long soundtilde - a diacritical mark (~) placed over the letter n in Spanish to indicate a palatal nasal sound or over a vowel in Portuguese to indicate nasalizationdiaeresis, dieresis, umlaut - a diacritical mark (two dots) placed over a vowel in German to indicate a change in sound |
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Synonyms for diacritical marknoun a mark added to a letter to indicate a special pronunciationSynonymsRelated Words- mark
- accent mark
- accent
- breve
- cedilla
- circumflex
- hacek
- wedge
- macron
- tilde
- diaeresis
- dieresis
- umlaut
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