POLYPHONE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does polyphone mean? 

• POLYPHONE (noun)
  The noun POLYPHONE has 1 sense:

1. a letter that has two or more pronunciations

  Familiarity information: POLYPHONE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• POLYPHONE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A letter that has two or more pronunciations

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

polyphone; polyphonic letter

Context example:

'c' is a polyphone because it is pronounced like 'k' in 'car' but like 's' in 'cell'

Hypernyms ("polyphone" is a kind of...):

alphabetic character; letter; letter of the alphabet (the conventional characters of the alphabet used to represent speech)

Derivation:

polyphonic (having two or more phonetic values)