accent mark
Symbol above letters
An accent mark is a diacritical symbol placed above or below a letter to indicate pronunciation, stress, or distinguish between words.
Common examples include the acute accent in *café*, the grave accent in *è*, and the tilde in *señor*.
English borrows accent marks mainly through foreign loanwords, and they often disappear as words become naturalized: résumé gradually becomes resume.
Intensely severe or perceptive
- graveSerious and worrying
- circumflexPeaked accent mark
- tildeWavy diacritical mark
- umlautDouble-dot diacritical mark
cedilla · breve · diaeresis · ring · hook · horn · stroke · overline
Character style set
- typefaceLettering style design
- characterNature, symbol, or role
- symbolRepresentational mark or sign
- notationSystem of written symbols
ASCII · keyboard · input method · encoding · rendering · glyph · ligature · dingbat
Correct letter sequence
- writing systemSymbols representing language
- romanizationScript-to-alphabet conversion process
- transliterationCross-script phonetic spelling
- diacriticalRelating to accent marks
nasalization · tone · pronunciation guide · alphabet · script · letter · grapheme · phonetic spelling
acute
Intensely severe or perceptive
- graveSerious and worrying
- circumflexPeaked accent mark
- tildeWavy diacritical mark
umlaut · cedilla · breve · diaeresis · ring · hook · horn · stroke · overline · tittle
font
Character style set
notation · ASCII · keyboard · input method · encoding · rendering · glyph · ligature · dingbat · special character
spelling
Correct letter sequence
- writing systemSymbols representing language
- romanizationScript-to-alphabet conversion process
- transliterationCross-script phonetic spelling
diacritical · nasalization · tone · pronunciation guide · alphabet · script · letter · grapheme · phonetic spelling · IPA
French
Of or from Paris's nation
- SpanishLanguage of Iberia
- GermanCentral European language
- PortugueseOf a western Iberian nation
Vietnamese · Polish · Czech · Turkish · Pinyin · Nahuatl · Yoruba · Hawaiian · Māori · Scandinavian
accent markpunctuation mark
Written symbol guiding reading
punctuation · letter · whitespace · space
mark, accent, marker, remarkable, marking, accentuate, accentuation, accentuating, unaccented