Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

a͞a

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: aa
IPA

2

Scrabble Score

2

Letters

1

Syllables

1

Unique Chars

Meaning

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An orthographic ⟨a⟩ with a diacritic that marks it as being the TRAP vowel, as in the word "am".(Used by 19th century scholar Henry Adeney Redpath)

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What does a͞a mean?: An orthographic ⟨a⟩ with a diacritic that marks it as being the TRAP vowel, as in the word "am".(Used by 19th century scholar Henry Adeney Redpath)

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