diacritical mark

Questions about diacritical mark

What does diacritical mark mean?

diacritical mark means "a mark added to a letter to indicate a special pronunciation".

What is another word for diacritical mark?

Close synonyms include diacritic. 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 diacritical mark a common word?

diacritical 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.