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epenthetical

epenthetical is the alternative form of epenthetic.

Meaning of epenthetic

Adjective

epenthetic (not comparable)

  1. Of or pertaining to epenthesis.
    • “I’ve added a little vowel between the t and the r,” Baron says. “It elongates the word, it adds an extra syllable to the word, it emphasizes the word. There’s a name for this: epenthetic vowel.”2015 December 7, Julie Beck, “The Linguistics of 'YouTube Voice'”, in The Atlantic
  2. Inserted into a word.

Words formed from epenthetical

Questions about epenthetical

What is epenthetical the alternative form of?
Epenthetical is the alternative form of epenthetic.

Words near epenthetical in the dictionary

  1. epenthesize
  2. epenthesized
  3. epenthesizes
  4. epenthesizing
  5. epenthetic
  6. epenthetical
  7. epenthetically
  8. epeolatry
  9. eperezolid
  10. epergne
  11. epergnes

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Adapted from Wiktionary: epenthetical (page history and authors); epenthetic (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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