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epinthesis

epinthesis is the misspelling of epenthesis.

Meaning of epenthesis

Noun

epenthesis (countable and uncountable, plural epentheses)

  1. (rhetoric) The insertion of a phoneme, letter, or syllable into a word, usually to satisfy the phonological constraints of a language or poetic context.

Questions about epinthesis

What is epinthesis the misspelling of?
Epinthesis is the misspelling of epenthesis.

Words near epinthesis in the dictionary

  1. epinikion
  2. epinine
  3. epinodosinol
  4. Epinomis
  5. epinosic
  6. epinthesis
  7. epinthetic
  8. epinucleation
  9. epioccipital
  10. epioccipitals
  11. Epione

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Adapted from Wiktionary: epinthesis (page history and authors); epenthesis (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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