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Noun: polyphone  'pó-lee`fown
  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'"
    - polyphonic letter

Derived forms: polyphones

See also: polyphonic

Type of: alphabetic character, letter, letter of the alphabet

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