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polyphone

DEFINITIONS OF: polyphone

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n 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'”
Synonyms:
polyphonic letter
Type of:
alphabetic character, letter, letter of the alphabet
the conventional characters of the alphabet used to represent speech
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