accent

Meanings

• distinctive manner of oral expression;
• "he couldn't suppress his contemptuous accent"
• special importance or significance;
• "the room was decorated in shades of grey with distinctive red accents"
• the usage or vocabulary that is characteristic of a specific group of people;
• "he has a strong German accent"
• the relative prominence of a syllable or musical note (especially with regard to stress or pitch);
• a diacritical mark used to indicate stress or placed above a vowel to indicate a special pronunciation
• to stress, single out as important;
• put stress on; utter with an accent;
• "In Farsi, you accent the last syllable of each word"
• ACCENT v -ED, -ING, -S to pronounce with prominence

Synonyms

• speech pattern
• emphasis
• dialect
• idiom
• stress
• accent mark
• emphasize
• emphasise
• punctuate
• accentuate

Scrabble Score: 10

accent is a valid Scrabble (US) TWL word

accent is a valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary

accent is a valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 13

accent is a valid Words With Friends word

Anagrams of accent