umlaut
noun/ˈʊmlaʊt/
Frequency rank: #19,693 most common English word
Meaning
A diacritic mark (two dots) placed over a vowel to indicate a change in pronunciation.
Example sentence
The word 'naive' is sometimes spelled with umlaut over the 'i' to show it comes from French.
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