Usually means: Word with multiple phonetic outputs.
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We found 18 dictionaries that define the word polyphone:

General (17 matching dictionaries)
  1. polyphone: Merriam-Webster
  2. polyphone: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  3. polyphone: Collins English Dictionary
  4. polyphone: Vocabulary.com
  5. polyphone: Wordnik
  6. polyphone: Wiktionary
  7. polyphone: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. polyphone: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. Polyphone, polyphone: Dictionary.com
  10. Polyphone: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. Polyphone: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  12. polyphone: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  13. polyphone: Rhymezone
  14. Polyphone: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  15. polyphone: FreeDictionary.org
  16. polyphone: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. polyphone: TheFreeDictionary.com

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (polyphone)

▸ noun:  A letter, or combination of letters, that can be pronounced in two or more different ways

Similar:
polyphonic letter, homophone, digraph, polygraph, geminate, aphthong, archiphoneme, intervocalization, variphone, univocal, more...

Opposite:
monophone, unisonous, monotone

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Similar:
polyphonic letter, homophone, digraph, polygraph, geminate, aphthong, archiphoneme, intervocalization, variphone, univocal, more...

Opposite:
monophone, unisonous, monotone



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