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Diacritic vs Diacriticked - What's the difference?

diacritic | diacriticked |

As adjectives the difference between diacritic and diacriticked

is that diacritic is distinguishing while diacriticked is written with diacritics.

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

    diacriticked

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Written with diacritics.
  • * 1999 : Richard Laurent, Past participles from Latin to Romance , page 469
  • Various symbols from the International Phonetic Alphabet, or from national schools of transcription, have been replaced by diacriticked Latin letters.
  • * For more examples of the usage of this term see the .