dieresis

Meaning of dieresis

noun
  1. A diacritic ( ¨ ) placed over a vowel letter (especially the second of two consecutive ones) indicating that it is sounded separately, usually forming a distinct syllable, as in the English words naïve, Noël and Brontë, the French haïr and the Dutch ruïne.
  2. Distraction; the separation of a vowel, often a diphthong, into two distinct syllables.
  3. A natural break in rhythm when a word ends at the end of a metrical foot, in a line of verse.
  4. Hiatus; the occurrence of separate vowel sounds in adjacent syllables without an intervening consonant.

Information about dieresis

  • It is a name.
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Hyphenation of dieresis

diere-sis

  • It consists of 2 syllables and 8 chars.
  • dieresis is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables

dieresis synonyms

Meaning umlaut:

umlaut, diaeresis

Words that rhyme with dieresis

ascesis, ecesis, phacometecesis, allosyndesis, arthrodesis, asyndesis, autosyndesis, capsulodesis, diapedesis, fasciodesis, iridesis, iridodesis, leukopedesis, metasyndesis, parapedesis, parasyndesis, pedesis, pleurodesis, spondylosyndesis, syndesis, syneidesis, tenodesis, trichomadesis, Parcheesis, deesis, parcheesis, algesis, analgesis, diegesis, eisegesis, energesis, epexegesis, exegesis, exomologesis, hyperalgesis, periegesis, Ecthesis, Lachesis, algesthesis, amylosynthesis, anesthesis, anterolisthesis, anthesis, antimetathesis, antithesis, aphesis, apothesis, apselaphesis, autoprothesis, bioprosthesis

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