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-phony

/-fəni/

-phony suffix: sound or its production.

Suffix

-phony

  1. sound or its production
  2. musical structure
  3. language sounds and languages
  4. medical auscultation
  5. voice (Alternative form of -phonia)

Origin of -phony

From French -phonie, from Old French -phonie, and its etymon Classical Latin -phōnia, from Ancient Greek -φωνία (-phōnía). By surface analysis, -phone + -y. Doublet of -phonia.

Words formed from -phony

Questions about -phony

What does -phony mean?
-phony means sound or its production.
What part of speech is -phony?
-phony is a suffix.
How do you pronounce -phony?
-phony is pronounced /-fəni/.

Words near -phony in the dictionary

  1. -phone
  2. -phonia
  3. -phonic
  4. -phonics
  5. -phonous
  6. -phony
  7. -phor
  8. -phore
  9. -phoresis
  10. -phoretic
  11. -phorous

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Adapted from Wiktionary: -phony (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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