polyphone

polyphone

English

Etymology

poly- +‎ phone

Noun

polyphone (plural polyphones)

1. A letter, or combination of letters, that can be pronounced in two or more different ways

Translations

polyphone

Chinese: Mandarin: 多音字 (zh) (duōyīnzì) (homograph, refers to characters with more than one reading) Japanese: 多音語 (taongo)

See also

• homograph (the pronunciation may be the same or different)
• homonym (if the pronunciation is the same)
• heteronym (if the pronunciation is different)

Anagrams

• pleophony