acute accent
Rightward-leaning diacritic
An acute accent is a diacritical mark (´) placed over a vowel, slanting upward from left to right.
In English, it typically appears in borrowed words to indicate pronunciation or stress: résumé, café, fiancée.
In other languages like French and Spanish, it marks vowel quality or stress patterns.
diacritic
Peaked accent mark
- tildeWavy diacritical mark
- cedillaMark softening consonants
- umlautDouble-dot diacritical mark
- diaeresisVowel separation mark
breve · keyboard shortcut · combining character · typography
phonetic
Symbol showing syllable emphasis
- IPASound notation system
- pronunciation guideChart showing speech sounds
- high toneElevated auditory frequency
- phonologicalOf speech sound patterns
circumflex
Peaked accent mark
diaeresis · breve · keyboard shortcut · combining character · typography
stress mark
Symbol showing syllable emphasis
- IPASound notation system
- pronunciation guideChart showing speech sounds
- high toneElevated auditory frequency
- lettersa, d, e, h, q
- punctuationperiod, comma, colon, apostrophe, semicolon
- symbolssymbols, runes, symbol, asterisks, national symbol
- toneshigh tone, low tone, mid tone, neutral tone, tone language
- diacriticscedilla, circumflex, breve, diaeresis, tilde
- phonetic symbolsIPA, diacritics, schwa, phonetic alphabet, broad transcription
diacritical direction/slant
acute accentgrave accent
Leftward-sloping vowel marker
grave · backtick · circumflex · breve · tilde
accent, acute, acutely, acuity, accentuate, acuteness, accentuation, accentuating, accentuated