grave accent

1. 1.

   a mark (`) placed above a vowel to indicate pronunciation

   Synonymsgrave

   Broaderaccent

Questions about grave accent

What does grave accent mean?

grave accent means "a mark (`) placed above a vowel to indicate pronunciation".

What is another word for grave accent?

Close synonyms include grave. 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 grave accent a common word?

grave 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.