Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

acrophone

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: acro-phone
IPA

16

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

2

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

The first sound of a word, or a glyph used to represent the first sound of the word it represents

Example Sentences

"There were three classes of predicted knowledge sources: (a) induced sublexical relations (i.e., induction of orthographic–phonological relations from the experience of print words), (b) acrophones from letter names, and (c) transfer from spelling experience."
"Where there are no certain cognates to an acrophone, but the identity of its letter is secure, I shall reconstruct the translation in square brackets."

Etymology

From acro- + -phone.

Word Breakdown

Prefix: acro
Suffix: phone

Inflected Forms

acrophones (plural)

Derived Forms

acrophony

Questions

What does acrophone mean?: The first sound of a word, or a glyph used to represent the first sound of the word it represents
Where does acrophone come from?: From acro- + -phone.

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