Accent

/ˈak.sənt/

Synonyms for "accent" (305 found)

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Closest matches (61)

Noun(12 words)

accent markdialectspeech patternstressaccent typeaccentuating bold brogues circumflexescolor motifeddiacriticdiacritical mark

accent markaccents accentuate accentuation alexandrine amphibrach amphimacer anacrusis anapest antispast arsis articulation bacchius bar beat belaborbroad accentbrogue burr cadence

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caesura cancel catalexis character chatter chloriamb chloriambus colon comment concern concernment consequence consequentiality consideration conversation counterpoint cretic custos dactyldactylic hexameterdiacritical mark

Verb(4 words)

accentuate accentuated accentuatesadorn the statue

Adjective(4 words)

bold color schemebold phrasingconspicuous cuecore learning importance

Strong matches (92)

Noun(22 words)

diacritizedialect pronunciationdoes emphases emphasisemphasis adverbemphasis in writingemphasis with italicsemphasizeemphasize pronunciationemphasizingenergy phraseenunciation fleckforce representationforeground geordie highlighthighlight deliveryhighlighting

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idiomlemon twist

diaeresis dimeter dipody direct discourse distinguish dochmiac dot drawldwell onelegiacelegiac coupletelegiac pentameterelocution empathy emphasis emphasize epitrite excellence expression

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expression markfeminine caesurafermata foot force gabgive emphasis togrammatical accentharp onheptameter heptapodyheroic couplethexameter hexapodyhigh orderhigh rankhighlight hold iamb iambiciambic pentameterictus import importance inflection intensify intensity interest intonationintonation patternionic italicize jinglekey signaturelanguage leadlevel of stress

Adjective(4 words)

dialectal pronunciationfrench pronunciationgerman pronunciationgreek tonos

Verb(9 words)

emboldened emphasise emphasize emphasized emphasizes exclaim intones italicise italicizes

Related words (152)

ligature liltmake a federal casemarkmasculine caesuramateriality measure merit metermetrical accentmetrical footmetrical groupmetrical unitmetrics metronmetronomic markmolossus moment mora movement

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notation note numbersoral communicationoveraccentuate overemphasize overplay overstress paeon palaver paramountcy parole pause pentameter pentapody periodpitch accentplace emphasis onpointpoint upprattle precedence preeminence presa primacyprimary stresspriority proceleusmatic prominence pronunciation prosodics prosody pulsation pulse punctuate pyrrhic quantity rappingregional accentrhetorical accentrhythmrhythmic patternrhythmical accentrhythmical stressrub insecondary stresssegno self-importanceset apartset offsign signature significance slur speaking speech spondee spotlightsprung rhythmstar stressstress accentstress arsisstress patternsuperiority supremacy swell swing symbol syzygy talk talkingtempo marktertiary stresstetrameter tetrapody tetraseme thesis throb tietime signaturetonetone accenttribrach trimeter tripody triseme trochee twang underline underscore value vinculumweak stressweight words worth yakkety-yak yakking

Noun(19 words)

macronsmark diacriticmore emphaticallyplanning emphasispronunciation sforzandoshape conceptspeaker traitstress intonationstress tonestresses tangs touches twanging underlines underlining underscores underscoringweight of authority

Verb(11 words)

maintain emphasispunctuate punctuated punctuates stress stressed syncopate syncopated syncopates twanged weighted

Adjective(3 words)

nonnative pronunciationspoken emphasisstrong emphasis

Related word relations

OpenGloss and ConceptNet supply richer edges like generalizations, collocations, and derivations.

5 relation types

More general

20 entries

articulate diacriticdiacritical markenounce enunciate evince express grandness importance inflectionlinguistic featurenon-standard speechpronounce pronunciation prosody say

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More specific

10 entries

acute accentcircumflexforeign accentgrave accentnative accentplace diacriticregional accentstress syllablestress tonetilde

Collocations

11 entries

accent a wordaccent markaccent the syllableacute accentadd an accentforeign accentgrave accentmark with an accentnative accentplace a diacriticregional accent

Inflections

3 entries

accented accenting accents

Derivations

4 entries

accented accentual accentuate accentuation

Translations

199 translations across 81 languages.

Afrikaans

1 entries

tongval noun (distinctive pronunciation associated with a region, social group, etc.)

Albanian

2 entries

theks noun (orthography: mark to indicate stress)
theks noun (distinctive pronunciation associated with a region, social group, etc.)

Arabic

4 entries

تَلَفُّظ noun (distinctive pronunciation associated with a region, social group, etc.)
عَلَامَة نَبْر noun (orthography: mark to indicate stress)
لَهْجَة noun (distinctive pronunciation associated with a region, social group, etc.)
لَهْجَة noun (distinctive pronunciation associated with a region, social group, etc.)

Armenian

3 entries

ակցենտ noun (distinctive pronunciation associated with a region, social group, etc.)
առոգանություն noun (distinctive pronunciation associated with a region, social group, etc.)
շեշտ noun (orthography: mark to indicate stress)

Asturian

3 entries

acentu noun (orthography: mark to indicate stress)
acentu noun (distinctive pronunciation associated with a region, social group, etc.)
tilde noun (orthography: mark to indicate stress)

Azerbaijani

4 entries

aksent noun (orthography: mark to indicate stress)
aksent noun (distinctive pronunciation associated with a region, social group, etc.)
ləhcə noun (distinctive pronunciation associated with a region, social group, etc.)
vurğu işarəsi noun (orthography: mark to indicate stress)

Basque

1 entries

azentu noun (distinctive pronunciation associated with a region, social group, etc.)

Belarusian

2 entries

акцэ́нт noun (distinctive pronunciation associated with a region, social group, etc.)
вымо́ва noun (distinctive pronunciation associated with a region, social group, etc.)

Bengali

1 entries

ঝোঁক noun (distinctive pronunciation associated with a region, social group, etc.)

Bulgarian

4 entries

акце́нт noun (distinctive pronunciation associated with a region, social group, etc.)
акце́нт noun (music: expressive emphasis of a passage)
и́зговор noun (distinctive pronunciation associated with a region, social group, etc.)
произноше́ние noun (distinctive pronunciation associated with a region, social group, etc.)

Catalan

3 entries

accent noun (orthography: mark to indicate stress)
accent noun (distinctive pronunciation associated with a region, social group, etc.)
titlla noun (orthography: mark to indicate stress)

Central Kurdish

1 entries

شێوەزار noun (distinctive pronunciation associated with a region, social group, etc.)

Chinese Cantonese

1 entries

口音 noun (distinctive pronunciation associated with a region, social group, etc.)

Chinese Mandarin

4 entries

口音 noun (distinctive pronunciation associated with a region, social group, etc.)
尖音符 noun (orthography: mark to indicate stress)
方音 noun (distinctive pronunciation associated with a region, social group, etc.)
韻律重音 /韵律重音 noun (music: expressive emphasis of a passage)

Cornish

1 entries

lesyeth noun (distinctive pronunciation associated with a region, social group, etc.)

Czech

2 entries

přízvuk noun (orthography: mark to indicate stress)
přízvuk noun (distinctive pronunciation associated with a region, social group, etc.)

Danish

1 entries

accent noun (distinctive pronunciation associated with a region, social group, etc.)

Dutch

4 entries

accent noun (orthography: mark to indicate stress)
accent noun (distinctive pronunciation associated with a region, social group, etc.)
accent noun (music: expressive emphasis of a passage)
accent noun (mark to denote feet or inches)

Esperanto

3 entries

akĉento noun (distinctive pronunciation associated with a region, social group, etc.)
diakrita signo noun (orthography: mark to indicate stress)
diakritilo noun (orthography: mark to indicate stress)

Estonian

2 entries

aktsent noun (distinctive pronunciation associated with a region, social group, etc.)
rõhumärk noun (orthography: mark to indicate stress)

Finnish

4 entries

aksentti noun (orthography: mark to indicate stress)
aksentti noun (music: expressive emphasis of a passage)
aksenttimerkki noun (orthography: mark to indicate stress)
korostus noun (distinctive pronunciation associated with a region, social group, etc.)

French

3 entries

accent noun (orthography: mark to indicate stress)
accent noun (distinctive pronunciation associated with a region, social group, etc.)
accent noun (music: expressive emphasis of a passage)

Galician

2 entries

acento noun (orthography: mark to indicate stress)
acento noun (distinctive pronunciation associated with a region, social group, etc.)

Georgian

1 entries

აქცენტი noun (distinctive pronunciation associated with a region, social group, etc.)

German

4 entries

Akzent noun (orthography: mark to indicate stress)
Akzent noun (distinctive pronunciation associated with a region, social group, etc.)
Akzent noun (mark to denote feet or inches)
Akzentzeichen noun (orthography: mark to indicate stress)

Greek

2 entries

προφορά noun (distinctive pronunciation associated with a region, social group, etc.)
τόνος noun (orthography: mark to indicate stress)

Hebrew

2 entries

טַעַם noun (orthography: mark to indicate stress)
מִבְטָא noun (distinctive pronunciation associated with a region, social group, etc.)

Hindi

3 entries

लहज़ा noun (distinctive pronunciation associated with a region, social group, etc.)
लहजा noun (distinctive pronunciation associated with a region, social group, etc.)
स्वरपात noun (distinctive pronunciation associated with a region, social group, etc.)

Hungarian

2 entries

akcentus noun (distinctive pronunciation associated with a region, social group, etc.)
ékezet noun (orthography: mark to indicate stress)

Icelandic

1 entries

hreimur noun (distinctive pronunciation associated with a region, social group, etc.)

Ido

4 entries

acento noun (distinctive pronunciation associated with a region, social group, etc.)
achento noun (distinctive pronunciation associated with a region, social group, etc.)
diakritiko noun (orthography: mark to indicate stress)
supersigno noun (orthography: mark to indicate stress)

Ilocano

2 entries

ayug noun (distinctive pronunciation associated with a region, social group, etc.)
bengngat noun (distinctive pronunciation associated with a region, social group, etc.)

Indonesian

1 entries

logat noun (distinctive pronunciation associated with a region, social group, etc.)

Irish

1 entries

blas noun (distinctive pronunciation associated with a region, social group, etc.)

Italian

4 entries

accento noun (orthography: mark to indicate stress)
accento noun (distinctive pronunciation associated with a region, social group, etc.)
accento noun (music: expressive emphasis of a passage)
cadenza noun (distinctive pronunciation associated with a region, social group, etc.)

Japanese

4 entries

なまり noun (distinctive pronunciation associated with a region, social group, etc.)
アクセント noun (orthography: mark to indicate stress)
アクセント noun (distinctive pronunciation associated with a region, social group, etc.)
話し振り noun (distinctive pronunciation associated with a region, social group, etc.)

Kapampangan

2 entries

gege noun (distinctive pronunciation associated with a region, social group, etc.)
puntu noun (distinctive pronunciation associated with a region, social group, etc.)

Kazakh

1 entries

акцент noun (distinctive pronunciation associated with a region, social group, etc.)

Khmer

1 entries

សំនៀង noun (distinctive pronunciation associated with a region, social group, etc.)

Korean

2 entries

말씨 noun (distinctive pronunciation associated with a region, social group, etc.)
억양 noun (distinctive pronunciation associated with a region, social group, etc.)

Kyrgyz

1 entries

акцент noun (distinctive pronunciation associated with a region, social group, etc.)

Lao

1 entries

ສຳນຽງ noun (distinctive pronunciation associated with a region, social group, etc.)

Latvian

2 entries

akcents noun (distinctive pronunciation associated with a region, social group, etc.)
akcents noun (music: expressive emphasis of a passage)

Ligurian

1 entries

acénto noun (orthography: mark to indicate stress)

Lithuanian

1 entries

akcentas noun (distinctive pronunciation associated with a region, social group, etc.)

Macedonian

4 entries

акцент noun (orthography: mark to indicate stress)
акцент noun (music: expressive emphasis of a passage)
нагласок noun (distinctive pronunciation associated with a region, social group, etc.)
прим noun (mark to denote feet or inches)

Malay

2 entries

aksen noun (distinctive pronunciation associated with a region, social group, etc.)
loghat noun (distinctive pronunciation associated with a region, social group, etc.)

Mongolian

1 entries

аялга noun (distinctive pronunciation associated with a region, social group, etc.)

Māori

3 entries

mita noun (distinctive pronunciation associated with a region, social group, etc.)
tohu whakahua noun (orthography: mark to indicate stress)
tohu whakahua kupu noun (orthography: mark to indicate stress)

Nepali

1 entries

लवज noun (distinctive pronunciation associated with a region, social group, etc.)

Norman

3 entries

accent noun (orthography: mark to indicate stress)
accent noun (distinctive pronunciation associated with a region, social group, etc.)
accent noun (music: expressive emphasis of a passage)

Northern Kurdish

1 entries

devok noun (distinctive pronunciation associated with a region, social group, etc.)

Norwegian Bokmål

4 entries

aksent noun (orthography: mark to indicate stress)
aksent noun (distinctive pronunciation associated with a region, social group, etc.)
tonefall noun (distinctive pronunciation associated with a region, social group, etc.)
uttale noun (distinctive pronunciation associated with a region, social group, etc.)

Old English

1 entries

accent noun (distinctive pronunciation associated with a region, social group, etc.)

Persian

3 entries

آکسان noun (orthography: mark to indicate stress)
اکسنت noun (distinctive pronunciation associated with a region, social group, etc.)
لهجه noun (distinctive pronunciation associated with a region, social group, etc.)

Polish

3 entries

akcent noun (orthography: mark to indicate stress)
akcent noun (distinctive pronunciation associated with a region, social group, etc.)
akcent noun (music: expressive emphasis of a passage)

Portuguese

4 entries

acento noun (orthography: mark to indicate stress)
acento noun (distinctive pronunciation associated with a region, social group, etc.)
acentuação noun (music: expressive emphasis of a passage)
sotaque noun (distinctive pronunciation associated with a region, social group, etc.)

Romanian

2 entries

accent noun (orthography: mark to indicate stress)
accent noun (distinctive pronunciation associated with a region, social group, etc.)

Russian

4 entries

акце́нт noun (distinctive pronunciation associated with a region, social group, etc.)
акце́нт noun (music: expressive emphasis of a passage)
вы́говор noun (distinctive pronunciation associated with a region, social group, etc.)
знак ударе́ния noun (orthography: mark to indicate stress)

Sardinian

3 entries

atzentu noun (orthography: mark to indicate stress)
atzentu noun (distinctive pronunciation associated with a region, social group, etc.)
atzentu noun (music: expressive emphasis of a passage)

Serbo-Croatian

4 entries

àkcenat noun (distinctive pronunciation associated with a region, social group, etc.)
àkcent noun (distinctive pronunciation associated with a region, social group, etc.)
а̀кценат noun (distinctive pronunciation associated with a region, social group, etc.)
а̀кцент noun (distinctive pronunciation associated with a region, social group, etc.)

Slovak

1 entries

prízvuk noun (distinctive pronunciation associated with a region, social group, etc.)

Slovene

1 entries

naglàs noun (distinctive pronunciation associated with a region, social group, etc.)

Spanish

4 entries

accento noun (distinctive pronunciation associated with a region, social group, etc.)
acento noun (distinctive pronunciation associated with a region, social group, etc.)
acento noun (music: expressive emphasis of a passage)
acento gráfico noun (orthography: mark to indicate stress)

Swedish

3 entries

accent noun (orthography: mark to indicate stress)
accent noun (distinctive pronunciation associated with a region, social group, etc.)
brytning noun (distinctive pronunciation associated with a region, social group, etc.)

Tagalog

2 entries

diin noun (orthography: mark to indicate stress)
punto noun (distinctive pronunciation associated with a region, social group, etc.)

Tajik

2 entries

аксент noun (distinctive pronunciation associated with a region, social group, etc.)
лаҳҷа noun (distinctive pronunciation associated with a region, social group, etc.)

Tamil

4 entries

பலுக்கல் noun (distinctive pronunciation associated with a region, social group, etc.)
பேச்சு noun (distinctive pronunciation associated with a region, social group, etc.)
வட்டார வழக்கு noun (distinctive pronunciation associated with a region, social group, etc.)
வழக்கு noun (distinctive pronunciation associated with a region, social group, etc.)

Telugu

2 entries

యాస noun (distinctive pronunciation associated with a region, social group, etc.)
శైలి noun (orthography: mark to indicate stress)

Thai

1 entries

สำเนียง noun (distinctive pronunciation associated with a region, social group, etc.)

Tibetan

1 entries

སྐད་གདངས noun (distinctive pronunciation associated with a region, social group, etc.)

Turkish

2 entries

aksan noun (distinctive pronunciation associated with a region, social group, etc.)
şive noun (distinctive pronunciation associated with a region, social group, etc.)

Turkmen

1 entries

aksent noun (distinctive pronunciation associated with a region, social group, etc.)

Ukrainian

3 entries

акце́нт noun (distinctive pronunciation associated with a region, social group, etc.)
вимо́ва noun (distinctive pronunciation associated with a region, social group, etc.)
на́голос noun (orthography: mark to indicate stress)

Urdu

1 entries

لَہْجَہ noun (distinctive pronunciation associated with a region, social group, etc.)

Uyghur

1 entries

شىۋە noun (distinctive pronunciation associated with a region, social group, etc.)

Uzbek

1 entries

aksent noun (distinctive pronunciation associated with a region, social group, etc.)

Vietnamese

4 entries

dấu noun (orthography: mark to indicate stress)
giọng noun (distinctive pronunciation associated with a region, social group, etc.)
khẩu âm noun (distinctive pronunciation associated with a region, social group, etc.)
tiếng noun (distinctive pronunciation associated with a region, social group, etc.)

Volapük

1 entries

kazetamal noun (orthography: mark to indicate stress)

Welsh

1 entries

acen noun (distinctive pronunciation associated with a region, social group, etc.)

Yiddish

1 entries

אַקצענט noun (distinctive pronunciation associated with a region, social group, etc.)

Sample sentences

35 total sentences available.

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He is a foreigner, as is evident from his accent.

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Judging from his accent, he must be from Osaka.

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The man speaks English with a German accent.

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The accent of the word is on the second syllable.

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