Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

diphthongy

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: diph-thongy
IPA

23

Scrabble Score

10

Letters

2

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Having the quality of a diphthong.

Informal

Example Sentences

"This ghost is the only other person besides Neyeurme who can say it correctly because it has all these diphthongy tongue-strangling nuances to it."
"American vowels tend to be very impure and diphthongy; you do NOT want this sound in your Italian or Latin."
"You could see Oliver brightening up at the sight of that æ. He – keen on diphthongy things – really liked words with ligatures. Julius Cæsar!"
"I thought it was a sort of weird diphthongy vowel, almost like the French "dure" (hard) crossed with "do-er" -- very distinctive in a hard-to-pin-down way."

Etymology

From diphthong + -y.

Word Breakdown

Suffix: diphthong

Usage

Informal

Inflected Forms

more diphthongy (comparative) most diphthongy (superlative)

Synonyms

diphthongic diphthongal

Questions

What does diphthongy mean?: Having the quality of a diphthong.
Where does diphthongy come from?: From diphthong + -y.

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