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Diacritic - What does it mean?

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is likely misspelled.


has no English definition.

As an adjective diacritic

is distinguishing.

As a noun diacritic

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

diacritic

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • distinguishing
  • (orthography, not comparable) Denoting a distinguishing mark applied to a letter or character.

    • Synonyms

    * diacritical

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A special mark added to a letter to indicate a different pronunciation, stress, tone, or meaning.

    • Synonyms

    * accent * diacritical mark

    Derived terms

    * diacritical

    Hyponyms

    * cedilla * diaeresis * * tilde * umlaut

    See also

    * ("diacritic" on Wikipedia)

    External links

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    Not English

    has no English definition. It may be misspelled.