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

1 sense of umlaut

Sense 1
umlaut, dieresis, diaeresis -- (a diacritical mark (two dots) placed over a vowel in German to indicate a change in sound)
       => diacritical mark, diacritic -- (a mark added to a letter to indicate a special pronunciation)