pitch accent

1. 1.

   emphasis that results from pitch rather than loudness

   Synonymstonic accent

   Broaderstress

Questions about pitch accent

What does pitch accent mean?

pitch accent means "emphasis that results from pitch rather than loudness".

What is another word for pitch accent?

Close synonyms include tonic accent. 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 pitch accent a common word?

pitch 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.