acrophony

1. 1.

   naming a letter of the alphabet by using a word whose initial sound is the sound represented by that letter

   Broadernaming

Other forms of acrophony

plural

acrophonies·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about acrophony

What does acrophony mean?

acrophony means "naming a letter of the alphabet by using a word whose initial sound is the sound represented by that letter".

How many syllables are in acrophony?

acrophony has 4 syllables: a-cro-pho-ny. The stress falls on "cro".

Is acrophony a common word?

acrophony is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.