polyphonic letter

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   a letter that has two or more pronunciations

   “`c' is a polyphone because it is pronounced like `k' in `car' but like `s' in `cell'”

   Synonymspolyphone

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Questions about polyphonic letter

What does polyphonic letter mean?

polyphonic letter means "a letter that has two or more pronunciations".

What is another word for polyphonic letter?

Close synonyms include polyphone. 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 polyphonic letter a common word?

polyphonic letter 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.