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POLYPHONIC LETTER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does polyphonic letter mean? 

POLYPHONIC LETTER (noun)
  The noun POLYPHONIC LETTER has 1 sense:

1. a letter that has two or more pronunciationsplay

  Familiarity information: POLYPHONIC LETTER used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


POLYPHONIC LETTER (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A letter that has two or more pronunciations

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

polyphone; polyphonic letter

Context example:

'c' is a polyphone because it is pronounced like 'k' in 'car' but like 's' in 'cell'

Hypernyms ("polyphonic letter" is a kind of...):

alphabetic character; letter; letter of the alphabet (the conventional characters of the alphabet used to represent speech)


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