inflection

inflection is a 10-letter English word with 11 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: The act of inflecting, or the state of being inflected. Face value is 15 in Scrabble and 19 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

10 letters · Scrabble 15 · Words With Friends 19 · 11 senses

Definitions

1. noun. The act of inflecting, or the state of being inflected.
2. noun. A bend; a fold; a curve; a turn; a twist.
3. noun. A slide, modulation, or accent of the voice; as, the rising and the falling inflection.
4. noun. The variation or change which words undergo to mark case, gender, number, comparison, tense, person, mood, voice, etc.
5. noun. Any change or modification in the pitch or tone of the voice.
6. noun. A departure from the monotone, or reciting note, in chanting.
7. noun. Same as Diffraction.
8. noun. the patterns of stress and intonation in a language

   Synonyms: prosody

9. noun. a manner of speaking in which the loudness or pitch or tone of the voice is modified

   Synonyms: modulation

10. noun. deviation from a straight or normal course

    Synonyms: flection, flexion

11. noun. a change in the form of a word (usually by adding a suffix) to indicate a change in its grammatical function

    Synonyms: inflexion

Synonyms

prosody, modulation, flection, flexion, inflexion

Common word forms

inflections, inflectional, inflectionless

Words from these letters

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