Diacritic

What do we mean by diacritic?

Diacritical. adjective

Diagnostic or distinctive. adjective

A mark, such as the cedilla of façade or the acute accent of resumé, added to a letter to indicate a special phonetic value or distinguish words that are otherwise graphically identical. noun

Serving to distinguish: same as diacritical (which is the more common form).

A diacritical mark (which see, under diacritical). noun

That separates or distinguishes; -- applied to points or marks used to distinguish letters of similar form, or different sounds of the same letter, as, ā, ă, ä, ō, ŏ, etc. adjective

Distinguishing adjective

Denoting a distinguishing mark applied to a letter or character. adjective

A special mark added to a letter to indicate a different pronunciation, stress, tone, or meaning. noun

Capable of distinguishing adjective

A mark added to a letter to indicate a special pronunciation noun

A special mark added to a letter to indicate a different pronunciation, stress, tone, or meaning.

The addition of diacritical marks to letters that are of no particular aid to pronunciation, in an attempt to appear more worldly or sophisticated. Urban Dictionary

Diacritic: a mark, pointer, sign to distinguish from another form, to give a particular phonetic value Urban Dictionary

Words that are spelled similarly to diacritic:
diacritic, dicrotic, diaeretic, diacritics, diacrisis, dioritic, dacitic, diactinic, diaristic, picritic, diabrotic, diacidic.

Words that are triggered by (strongly associated with) the word diacritic:
cedilla, diaeresis, diacritical, tilde, circumflex, approximant, superscript, umlaut, macron, breve, bilabial, ipa, subscript, retroflex, tittle, consonant, vowel, digraph, velar, palatal, schwa, consonants, indic, glyph, orthography, unicode, comma, alveolar, voiceless, trill, protrusion, glottal, syllable, hoc, iota, caron, syllables, accent, phonetic, nasal, fricative, accented, articulation, readable, precedes, alphabet, transcribed, transliteration, phonological, braille, pronunciation, marks, flap, retracted, accents, denoting, punctuation, dot, transcription, symbol, inherent, pinyin, cyrillic, spacing, acute, combining, letter, omitted, compression, rounded, dots, simultaneous, lips, analogy, letters, clarify, symbols, inverted, indicate, pronounced, tone, tones, denote, redundant, distinguishing, voiced, click, dental, hook, burmese, indicates, technically, breathing, compressed, spelled, signs, indicating, sounds, arabic, mark.

Words that rhyme with diacritic:
critic, semitic, analytic, neritic, parasitic, catalytic, paralytic, dendritic, arthritic, granitic, hemolytic, hermaphroditic, psychoanalytic, electrolytic, cushitic, porphyritic, citic, thrombolytic, hamitic, palmitic, halophytic, chittick, newspaper critic, drama critic, music critic, theater critic, bittick, svitak, soditic, zitek.

Adjectives that are often used to describe diacritic:
same, special, single, subscript, arbitrary, linguistic, additional, voiceless, key, morphological, general, mere.

Nouns that are often described by the adjective diacritic:
marks, features, mark, signs, feature, points, symbols, sign, markings, function, characters, use, symbol, markers, dots, marker, perception, dot, approach, elements, point, accent, categories, analysis, accents, auxiliaries, stroke, parameters, organization, tilde, organizations, category, modifications, satellites, discrimination, combinations.

Words that sound like diacritic:
diacritic, diacritics, diacritical, diuretic, democratic, diachronic, idiocratic, diarrhetic, diaphoretic, dichroic, dichotic, drama critic, autocratic, hypocritic, theocratic.