diacritical mark

Thesaurus

Noun

1.

diacritical mark - a mark added to a letter to indicate a special pronunciation diacritic mark - a written or printed symbol (as for punctuation); "his answer was just a punctuation mark" accent mark, accent - a diacritical mark used to indicate stress or placed above a vowel to indicate a special pronunciation breve - a diacritical mark (U-shaped) placed over a vowel to indicate a short sound cedilla - a diacritical mark (,) placed below the letter c to indicate that it is pronounced as an s circumflex - a diacritical mark (^) placed above a vowel in some languages to indicate a special phonetic quality hacek, wedge - a diacritical mark (an inverted circumflex) placed above certain letters (such as the letter c) to indicate pronunciation macron - a diacritical mark (-) placed above a vowel to indicate a long sound tilde - a diacritical mark (~) placed over the letter n in Spanish to indicate a palatal nasal sound or over a vowel in Portuguese to indicate nasalization diaeresis, dieresis, umlaut - a diacritical mark (two dots) placed over a vowel in German to indicate a change in sound