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haplologies

haplologies is the plural of haplology.

Meaning of haplology

Noun

haplology (countable and uncountable, plural haplologies)

  1. (uncountable) The process of deleting one of two almost identical syllables within a word.
  2. (broadly, countable) An instance of said process.

Questions about haplologies

What is haplologies the plural of?
Haplologies is the plural of haplology.

Words near haplologies in the dictionary

  1. haplolethal
  2. haplolethality
  3. haplologic
  4. haplological
  5. haplologically
  6. haplologies
  7. haplologise
  8. haplologised
  9. haplologize
  10. haplologized
  11. haplologizes

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Adapted from Wiktionary: haplologies (page history and authors); haplology (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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