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orthoëpist

orthoëpist is the archaic spelling of orthoepist.

Meaning of orthoepist

Noun

orthoepist (plural orthoepists)

  1. An expert at orthoepy: a person who studies the pronunciation of words, especially (historical) one of the orthoepists, 16th- and 17th-century linguists who tried to establish standard English pronunciations and spellings.

Forms of orthoëpist

pluralorthoëpists

Questions about orthoëpist

What is orthoëpist the archaic spelling of?
Orthoëpist is the archaic spelling of orthoepist.

Words near orthoëpist in the dictionary

  1. orthowalpurgite
  2. orthowater
  3. orthox
  4. orthoxylene
  5. orthoxylenes
  6. orthoëpist
  7. orthoëpists
  8. orthoëpy
  9. orthropteroid
  10. orthros
  11. Orthrus

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Adapted from Wiktionary: orthoëpist (page history and authors); orthoepist (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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