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dieretic

dieretic is the alternative spelling of diaeretic.

Meaning of diaeretic

Adjective

diaeretic (comparative more diaeretic, superlative most diaeretic)

  1. Featuring diaeresis.
    • The word create is dieretic, whereas creature is synaeretic.
  2. Written with a diaeresis.
    • Some words have many spellings: Take, for example, coordinate, which also has a hyphenated spelling variant — co-ordinate — and a dieretic one, coördinate.
  3. (rhetoric) Separative.

Questions about dieretic

What is dieretic the alternative spelling of?
Dieretic is the alternative spelling of diaeretic.

Words near dieretic in the dictionary

  1. Diercks
  2. Dierckses
  3. Dierdre
  4. diereses
  5. dieresis
  6. dieretic
  7. diergic
  8. diergism
  9. Dieri
  10. diers
  11. dies

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Adapted from Wiktionary: dieretic (page history and authors); diaeretic (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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