word accent

1. 1.

   the distribution of stresses within a polysyllabic word

   Synonymsword stress

   Broaderstress

Questions about word accent

What does word accent mean?

word accent means "the distribution of stresses within a polysyllabic word".

What is another word for word accent?

Close synonyms include word stress. 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 word accent a common word?

word 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.