acute accent

1. 1.

   a mark placed above a vowel to indicate pronunciation

   Synonymsacuteague

   Broaderaccent

Questions about acute accent

What does acute accent mean?

acute accent means "a mark placed above a vowel to indicate pronunciation".

What is another word for acute accent?

Close synonyms include acute, ague. 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 acute accent a common word?

acute accent 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.