orthoepy

1. 1.

   the way a word or a language is customarily spoken

   “the pronunciation of Chinese is difficult for foreigners”

   “that is the correct pronunciation”

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2. 2.

   a term formerly used for the part of phonology that dealt with the `correct' pronunciation of words and its relation to `correct' orthography

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Other forms of orthoepy

plural

orthoepies·

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 orthoepy

What does orthoepy mean?

orthoepy means "the way a word or a language is customarily spoken". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in orthoepy?

orthoepy has 4 syllables: or-tho-e-py. The stress falls on "tho".

What is another word for orthoepy?

Close synonyms include pronunciation. 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 orthoepy a common word?

orthoepy 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.