Umlaut

/ˈʊm.laʊt/

Synonyms for "umlaut" (15 found)

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Closest matches (3)

Noun(3 words)
vowel mutationaccent markdiacritic

Strong matches (5)

Noun(4 words)
diacritic encodingdiacritic representationdiaeresisdigital diacritic

Related words (7)

Noun(3 words)
tremavowel changevowel shift

Related word relations

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

5 relation types

More general

4 entries
diacriticdiacritical markphonological changetext encoding

More specific

5 entries
combining diaeresisprecomposed umlauttwo dot diacriticvowel frontingvowel mutation

Collocations

6 entries
German umlautdiacritic umlautfronted vowelstwo dot diacriticumlaut markvowel mutation

Inflections

1 entries

Derivations

3 entries

Sample sentences

9 total sentences available.

Tatoeba + Wiktionary

In modern computer systems, umlaut and diaeresis are represented identically.

Source: tatoeba (483708)

The only written accent German has is the umlaut.

Source: tatoeba (4003259)

In fits of concealed despair that went unnoticed even by those close enough to touch, Julien cursed the language of umlauts, eszetts, and gerunds.

Source: wiktionary

A tittle is more or less the same thing (the dot over an i, for instance), except that it can be traced back to Medieval Latin for a little mark over or under a letter, such as an accent ague or a cedilla. I don't know whether an umlaut is one or two tittles. Maybe it's a jot and a tittle side by side.

Source: wiktionary

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