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Polyphone Moderate

Origin: Greek suffix -phone

Polyphone has 2 different meanings across 1 category:

Noun

Definitions
Noun
1

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'"

2

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

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Rhyming Words
one done wone lone mone fone none zone pone cone hone rone sone jone ione yone tone gone bone prone
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