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Definition diaeresis

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ????????? (diaíresis, “division, split”), from ??? (diá, “apart”) + ????? (hairé?, “I take”).

Noun

diaeresis (plural diaereses)

  1. (orthography) A diacritic ( ¨ ) placed over a vowel letter (especially the second of two consecutive ones) indicating that it is sounded separately, usually forming a distinct syllable, as in the English words naïve, Noël and Brontë, the French haïr and the Dutch ruïne.
  2. (linguistics, prosody) Distraction; the separation of a vowel, often a diphthong, into two distinct syllables.
  3. (prosody) A natural break in rhythm when a word ends at the end of a metrical foot, in a line of verse.
  4. (linguistics, prosody) Hiatus; the occurrence of separate vowel sounds in adjacent syllables without an intervening consonant.

Results 261 Words with the letters DIAERESIS

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AIRS 4
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SEER 4
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SEIS 4
SERA 4
SERE 4
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SIDE 5
SIRE 4
SIRS 4
SRIS 4
3 letter words with the letters DIAERESIS 
ADS 4
AID 4
AIR 3
AIS 3
ARE 3
ARS 3
ASS 3
DEE 4
DIE 4
DIS 4
EAR 3
ERA 3
ERE 3
ERS 3
ESS 3
IDS 4
IRE 3
RAD 4
RAI 3
RAS 3
RED 4
REE 3
REI 3
RES 3
RIA 3
RID 4
SAD 4
SAE 3
SEA 3
SEE 3
SEI 3
SER 3
SIR 3
SIS 3
SRI 3
2 letter words with the letters DIAERESIS 
AD 3
AE 2
AI 2
AR 2
AS 2
DA 3
DE 3
DI 3
ED 3
ER 2
ES 2
ID 3
IS 2
RE 2
SI 2

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