spelling pronunciation
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.39 in modern English
28
Scrabble Score
21
Letters
5
Syllables
13
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A pronunciation that has been modified from its traditional form in order to reflect (one or another interpretation of) the spelling of the word in question.
Example Sentences
- "The audio contained some spelling pronunciations, such as when "sieve" was mistakenly portrayed as rhyming with "leave"."
- "Jespersen ([1909] 1954) says that spelling pronunciation has affected the pronunciation of all the following words: second (1:25); nephew (1:42); theater, apothecary, catholic, throne (1:45); humble, host, inherit, heretic, heresy, homely, hypocrite, hypocrisy, hospital, heritage, heritor, humor, hermit, hotel (1:61–62); novel (1:91), periwig (1:105); registrar (1:198); assoil, precise (1:204); wassail (1:268); fault, vault, assault, Walter, altar, fealty, moult, cauldron, baldric, herald, ribald, emerald, soldier, falcon, realm (1:295–97)."
Etymology
From spelling + pronunciation.