ideophone
Meanings
Plural: ideophones
Noun
- A word that uses sound symbolism to express aspects of events that can be experienced by the senses, like smell, color, shape, sound, action, or movement.
Origin / Etymology
From ideo- + -phone. James F. Fordyce (The Ideophone as a Phonosemantic Class: The Case of Yoruba, in Current approaches to African linguistics, Ivan R. Dihoff (ed.), page 263) credits C. M. Doke with introducing the term in 1935.
Scrabble Score: 15
ideophone is a valid Scrabble (US) TWL wordideophone is not valid in Scrabble (MW) Merriam-Webster Dictionary
ideophone is a valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary
Words With Friends Score: 0
ideophone is not valid in Words With Friends