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foreign accent syndrome

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.85 in modern English

Syllables
for-eign ac-cen-t syn-drome
IPA
35
Scrabble Score
21
Letters
5
Syllables
14
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

An extremely rare disorder, which may be temporary or permanent, in which a person who has suffered a stroke or other brain trauma recovers but subsequently speaks with a seemingly foreign accent.

Countable; Uncountable

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Inflected Forms

foreign accent syndromes (plural)

Questions

What does foreign accent syndrome mean?
An extremely rare disorder, which may be temporary or permanent, in which a person who has suffered a stroke or other brain trauma recovers but subsequently speaks with a seemingly foreign accent.

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