What does polyphonic letter mean?

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polyphonic letter

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.41 in modern English

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a letter that has two or more pronunciations

"‘c’ is a polyphone because it is pronounced like ‘k’ in ‘car’ but like ‘s’ in ‘cell’"

polyphone

What does polyphonic letter mean?: a letter that has two or more pronunciations

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