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polyphones

polyphones is the plural of polyphone.

Meaning of polyphone

Noun

polyphone (plural polyphones)

  1. A letter, or combination of letters, that can be pronounced in two or more different ways

Questions about polyphones

What is polyphones the plural of?
Polyphones is the plural of polyphone.

Words near polyphones in the dictionary

  1. polyphobic
  2. polyphon
  3. polyphonal
  4. polyphone
  5. polyphonemic
  6. polyphones
  7. polyphonia
  8. polyphonias
  9. polyphonic
  10. polyphonical
  11. polyphonically

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Adapted from Wiktionary: polyphones (page history and authors); polyphone (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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