Speakur

Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

ideophone

/ˈɪ.di.(j)ə(ʊ)ˌfəʊn/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
ideo-phone
IPA
/ˈɪ.di.(j)ə(ʊ)ˌfəʊn/
15
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A word that uses sound symbolism to express aspects of events that can be experienced by the senses, like smell, color, shape, sound, action, or movement.

Example Sentences

Etymology

From ideo- + -phone. James F. Fordyce (The Ideophone as a Phonosemantic Class: The Case of Yoruba, in Current approaches to African linguistics, Ivan R. Dihoff (ed.), page 263) credits C. M. Doke with introducing the term in 1935.

Word Breakdown

Regional Pronunciation

  • British English: /ˈɪ.di.(j)ə(ʊ)ˌfəʊn/

Inflected Forms

ideophones (plural)

Derived Forms

ideophonic

Frequently Paired Words

phonosemantic phonaesthesia onomatopoeia

Questions

How do you pronounce ideophone?
The recorded pronunciation is /ˈɪ.di.(j)ə(ʊ)ˌfəʊn/.
What does ideophone mean?
A word that uses sound symbolism to express aspects of events that can be experienced by the senses, like smell, color, shape, sound, action, or movement.
Where does ideophone come from?
From ideo- + -phone. James F. Fordyce (The Ideophone as a Phonosemantic Class: The Case of Yoruba, in Current approaches to African linguistics, Ivan R. Dihoff (ed.), page 263) credits C. M. Doke with introducing the term in 1935.

How to pronounce ideophone

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