accent mark

1. 1.

   a diacritical mark used to indicate stress or placed above a vowel to indicate a special pronunciation

   Synonymsaccent

   Broaderdiacritical mark

   Narrowerstress markacute accentgrave accent

   language

Questions about accent mark

What does accent mark mean?

accent mark means "a diacritical mark used to indicate stress or placed above a vowel to indicate a special pronunciation".

What is another word for accent mark?

Close synonyms include accent. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is accent mark a common word?

accent mark is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.