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Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
0
Scrabble Score
0
Letters
1
Syllables
0
Unique Chars
Meaning
character
Used to indicate that two identical vowels occur in separate morphemes and are pronounced separately.
Dated
character
Retained in foreign (mostly French) loan words where vowels are pronounced separately, but also for umlaut in German loan words, and terms derived from given names.
Example Sentences
- "coöperate, noöne, reënter, reëstablish, reöpen"
- "aërial, aëroplane, Boötes, Brontë, Chloë, Zoë"
- "Nor knew by tilëd roofs t’ oppose the sun, / Nor knew device of wood; […] I the first / Join’d unto fitting yokes enslavëd beasts, / Vicarious in the greatest toils, of man; […]"
- "Führer, Götterdämmerung, Möbius strip, naïve, Noël"