diaeresis
nounHow many syllables in diaeresis?
There are 5 syllables in the word diaeresis.How to pronounce diaeresis:
Definition of diaeresis:
- diaeresis (noun):
- noun. a diacritical mark (two dots) placed over a vowel in German to indicate a change in sound.
- a mark ¨ placed over a vowel to indicate that the vowel is pronounced in a separate syllable (as in naïve or brontë) compare umlaut
Synonyms for diaeresis:
diacritic
diacritical mark
dieresis
Here are some other common 5-syllable words.
- diabolical
- developmental
- devanagari
- determinative
- desideratum
- desalination
- derogatory
- deregulation
- demasculinize
- deliverable
- delimitation
- degenerative
- definitively
- dedicatedly
- decomposition
- deceleration
- decapitalize
- debilitating
- dacryoadenitis
- cynophobia
- crystallization
- cruciverbalist
- coxsackievirus
- contraindications
- contradistinction
- continuousness
- continentally
- contextualized
- contamination
- consolidated
- conservatism
- consequential
- consequences
- conjunctivitis
- congregational
- confederacy
- complementary
- competitiveness
- companionably
- communicating
- communicater
- commissioner
- commemorations
- columbarium
- colonization
- colonisation
- colloquium
- collectivism
- collaborative
- coelenterata
- … more
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