polyphone

polyphone is a 9-letter English word with 2 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A character or vocal sign representing more than one sound, as read, which is pronounced red. Face value is 19 in Scrabble and 21 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

9 letters · Scrabble 19 · Words With Friends 21 · 2 senses

Definitions

1. noun. A character or vocal sign representing more than one sound, as read, which is pronounced red.
2. noun. 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'"

Common word forms

polyphoned

Words from these letters

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