Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun polyphone

1 sense of polyphone

Sense 1
polyphone, polyphonic letter -- (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'")
       => letter, letter of the alphabet, alphabetic character -- (the conventional characters of the alphabet used to represent speech; "his grandmother taught him his letters")