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— English words —

• accent n. (Linguistics) A higher-pitched or stronger (louder or longer) articulation of a particular syllable…
• accent n. (Figuratively) Emphasis or importance in general.
• accent n. (Orthography) A mark or character used in writing, in order to indicate the place of the spoken accent…
• accent n. Modulation of the voice in speaking; the manner of speaking or pronouncing; a peculiar or characteristic…
• accent n. (Linguistics, sociolinguistics) The distinctive manner of pronouncing a language associated with a particular…
• accent n. A word; a significant tone or sound.
• accent n. (Usually plural only) Expressions in general; speech.
• accent n. (Prosody, poetry) Stress laid on certain syllables of a verse.
• accent n. (Music) A regularly recurring stress upon the tone to mark the beginning, and, more feebly, the third…
• accent n. (Music) A special emphasis of a tone, even in the weaker part of the measure.
• accent n. (Music) A mark used to represent this special emphasis.
• accent n. (Music) The rhythmical accent, which marks phrases and sections of a period.
• accent n. (Mathematics) A prime symbol.
• accent n. Emphasis laid on a part of an artistic design or composition; an emphasized detail, in particular a…
• accent n. A very small gemstone set into a piece of jewellery.
• accent n. (Archaic) Utterance.
• accent v. (Transitive) To express the accent of vocally; to utter with accent.
• accent v. (Transitive) To mark emphatically; to emphasize; to accentuate; to make prominent.
• accent v. (Transitive) To mark with written accents.

— Foreign words, define in English —

• Catalan - Old english - Romanian - Scots
  • accent n. Accent.
• Danish
  • accent n. Accent (a voice influenced by dialect or another language).
  • accent n. Accent (a mark on a letter (like grave or acute)).
  • accent n. (Linguistics) accent (stress or a pitch in articulation).
  • accent n. Accent (emphasis).
• Norman
  • accent n. (Linguistics) accent, stress.
• Norwegian bokmål
  • accent n. Alternative spelling of aksent (“accent”).
  • accent n. Only used in accent aigu (“acute accent”).
  • accent n. Only used in accent circonflexe (“circumflex”).
  • accent n. Only used in accent grave (“grave accent”).
• Old english
  • accent n. Diacritic.
• Pali
  • accent adj. Present active participle of acceti.
• Romanian
  • accent n. Emphasis.
• Swedish
  • accent n. An accent, an emphasis, a stress (in articulation).
  • accent n. An accent, a mark on a letter (grave or acute).
  • accent n. An accent, a voice influenced by dialect or another language.

— English words, defined in French —

• accent n. Accent.
• accent n. (Typographie) Accent.
• accent v. Parler avec accent, accentuer.

— English word, defined in Spanish —

• accent s. Acento.

— English words, defined in Portuguese —

• accent adj. Decorativo, de enfeite (em decorações de ambientes).
• accent s. (Gramática⚠) acento.
• accent s. Sotaque.
• accent s. Ênfase.
• accent s. Enfeite.
• accent s. Decoração.
• accent v. (Gramática⚠) acentuar.

— English word, defined in Italian —

• accent s. (Linguistica) accento.

— In Dutch —

• accent n. De manier waarop iemand de klanken uitspreekt.
• accent n. Een teken dat op een klinker kan worden geplaatst.
• accent n. De nadruk.

— In French —

• accent n.m. (Grammaire) Élévation de la voix sur une syllabe, dans…
• accent n.m. (Linguistique) Lorsqu’il s’agit seulement de l’élévation…
• accent n.m. Intonation qui convient à l’expression des divers sentiments.
• accent n.m. (Phonétique) Inflexions de voix ou de prononciations particulières…
• accent n.m. (Musique) Courte augmentation de l’intensité sonore.
• accent n.m. (Typographie) Signe spécial qui se met sur une syllabe…
• accent n.m. (Sens figuré) Élément qui donne une impression, une ambiance.

131 English words from 35 English definitions

accent accent␣grave accents accentuate active active␣participle acute acute␣accent Alternative and another Archaic articulation artistic associated beginning certain character characteristic circumflex composition design detail Diacritic dialect distinctive emphasis emphasize emphasized emphatically even express Expressions feebly Figuratively gemstone general grave grave␣accent higher higher-pitched importance indicate influenced in␣general in␣order in␣order␣to in␣particular into in␣writing jewellery laid language letter like Linguistics longer louder make manner mark marks Mathematics measure Modulation more Music of␣a of␣an only order Orthography part participle particular peculiar period phrases piece pitch pitched pitch␣in place plural poetry Present prime prominent pronouncing Prosody recurring regularly represent rhythmical sections set significant small sociolinguistics sound speaking special speech spelling spoken stress stronger syllable syllables symbol the third this tone Transitive upon used used␣to Usually utter Utterance verse very vocally voice weaker which with word writing written

20 English words from 22 foreign definitions

accent ambiance augmentation dans dat des divers een expression impression Inflexions Intonation kan klinker met Musique Sens sentiments Signe syllabe

4 foreign words from 35 English definitions

accent␣aigu accent␣circonflexe aigu circonflexe

46 foreign words from 22 foreign definitions

accento accentuer acento acentuar agit ambientes avec convient Courte Decoração Decorativo de␣la donne Élément élévation Ênfase enfeite figuré geplaatst Gramática Grammaire iemand intensité klanken Linguistica Linguistique manier nadruk Parler particulières Phonétique prononciations qui Sens␣figuré seulement sonore Sotaque spécial sur teken Typographie uitspreekt une voix waarop worden

41 suffixes (New words found by adding one or more letters at the end of the word.)

accents accented accentor accenting accentism accentors accent␣tag accentual accentedly accentless accentmark accent␣mark accent␣tags accentuate accent␣wall accent␣acute accent␣grave accentmarks accent␣marks accentology accentuable accentually accentuated accentuates accentuator accent␣walls accentedness accentlessly accentologic accentuality accentuating accentuation accentuators accent␣diamond accentologist accentuations accent␣diamonds accentlessness accentological accentologists accentologically

55 times in the middle (New words found by adding letters in front and at the end of the word.)

blaccents deaccents reaccents unaccents deaccented misaccents nonaccents reaccented unaccented deaccenting misaccented nonaccented overaccents reaccenting unaccenting acute␣accents grave␣accents misaccenting nonaccentual overaccented pitch␣accents reaccentuate tonic␣accents misaccentuate overaccenting reaccentuated reaccentuates stress␣accents unaccentuated alpine␣accentor diamond␣accents misaccentuated misaccentuates overaccentuate primary␣accents reaccentuating reaccentuation alpine␣accentors misaccentuating misaccentuation overaccentuated overaccentuates reaccentuations misaccentuations overaccentuating overaccentuation secondary␣accents Siberian␣accentor circumflex␣accents overaccentuations +5 words

19 prefixes (New words found by adding one or more letters in front of the word.)

blaccent deaccent reaccent unaccent misaccent nonaccent overaccent acute␣accent grave␣accent pitch␣accent tonic␣accent stress␣accent diamond␣accent primary␣accent secondary␣accent circumflex␣accent gravo-acute␣accent double␣acute␣accent double␣grave␣accent

15 words-in-word (Words found as is inside the word. Minimum size 3 letters.)

acc ACC acc. CCE Cen CEN cen- cent cent- cent. Cent. ent ENT -ent ent-

8 words-in-word RTL (Words found written from right to left, inside the word. Minimum size 3 letters.)

CCA cca. ECC Ecc. Ecca NEC n.e.c. NECC

4 anagrams found with an extra letter (New words formed with all the letters from the word and an extra letter.)

accents anectic coenact peccant

2 anagrams found minus a letter (New words formed with all the letters from the word minus a letter.)

Cante enact

3 cousins (New words found by changing only one letter.)

accend accept ascent

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