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epinthetic

epinthetic is the misspelling 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.

Questions about epinthetic

What is epinthetic the misspelling of?
Epinthetic is the misspelling of epenthetic.

Words near epinthetic in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: epinthetic (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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