Polyphone

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Polyphone \Pol"y*phone\, n.
     A character or vocal sign representing more than one sound,
     as read, which is pronounced r[=e]d or r[e^]d.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  polyphone
       n : a letter that has two or more pronunciations; "`c' is a
           polyphone because it is pronounced like `k' in `car' but
           like `s' in `cell'" [syn: {polyphonic letter}]