perispomeni
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
1
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Example Sentences
- "Rules for using the Perispomeni (Circumflex)"
- "Graphically these symbols are somewhat different from their counterparts used with the Latin letters—the acute and grave accents are generally drawn with a much steeper angle than is used with Latin letters, and the perispomeni appears, depending on font design, as a circumflex, tilde, or inverted breve."
- "The remaining three diacritics, oxia ( ΄ ), varia ( ` ), and perispomeni ( ˜ ), are used in the text to indicate primary stress."
Etymology
From Greek περισπωμένη (perispoméni).
Origin
- Source language: Greek
Word Breakdown
- Root: περισπωμένη