Usually means: Insertion of sound within word.
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We found 28 dictionaries that define the word epenthesis:

General (21 matching dictionaries)
  1. epenthesis: Merriam-Webster
  2. epenthesis: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. epenthesis: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. epenthesis: Collins English Dictionary
  5. epenthesis: Vocabulary.com
  6. epenthesis: Wordnik
  7. epenthesis: Wiktionary
  8. epenthesis: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. epenthesis: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. Epenthesis, epenthesis: Dictionary.com
  11. Epenthesis: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. Epenthesis: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. epenthesis: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  14. epenthesis: Rhymezone
  15. Epenthesis: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  16. epenthesis: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  17. epenthesis: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  18. epenthesis: FreeDictionary.org
  19. epenthesis: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  20. epenthesis: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. epenthesis: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Silva Rhetoricae: The Forest of Rhetoric (No longer online)
  2. Epenthesis: Lexicon of Linguistics

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. epenthesis: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. epenthesis: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. epenthesis: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. epenthesis: A Word A Day
  2. epenthesis: Wordcraft Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (epenthesis)

noun:  (phonetics, prosody) The insertion of a phoneme, letter, or syllable into a word, usually to satisfy the phonological constraints of a language or poetic context.

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