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orthoëpy

orthoëpy is the archaic form of orthoepy.

Meaning of orthoepy

Noun

orthoepy (countable and uncountable, plural orthoepies)

  1. The study of pronunciation.
  2. Accepted or customary pronunciation.
    Antonyms:
    cacoepy

Origin of orthoëpy

Emphasizing the word's tetrasyllabic pronunciation (as opposed to the trisyllabic pronunciations of orthoepy also recognized by dictionaries, especially in US English).

Questions about orthoëpy

What is orthoëpy the archaic form of?
Orthoëpy is the archaic form of orthoepy.

Words near orthoëpy in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: orthoëpy (page history and authors); orthoepy (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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