heterophonous
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
21
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
2
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Heterophonic, pertaining to heterophony of musical (or, by extension, other) sounds.
adj
Not homophonous; pronounced differently.
Example Sentences
- "Heterophonous wheezing sounds like many different musical notes and varies in intensity and pitch across different lung fields. Heterophonous wheezes occur in bronchiolitis, asthma, pulmonary edema, and pneumonia because this type of ..."
- "Constituents of different words as well as constituents of the same word may be heterophonous or homophonous. Clearly, by virtue of their constituents the words themselves become heterophonous or homophonous."
- "Such effects were reproduced by Dijkstra et al. (1999) on homophonic (but not homographic) Dutch–English words (e.g. leaf, homophonous of the Dutch word lief -gentle-). […] English-Afrikaans bilinguals produced more errors and took longer to accept homophonous heterographic words (e.g. lake-lyk) than to accept homographic heterophonous words (e.g. kind, meaning child in Afrikaans) […]"