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Definition: Accentual |
AccentualAdjective1. Of or pertaining to accent or stress. 2. (of verse) having a metric system based on stress rather than syllables or quantity; "accentual poetry is based on the number of stresses in a line"; "accentual rhythm". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Antonyms: quantitative (adj), syllabic (adj). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Accentual |
| English words defined with "accentual": Accentuality, Accentually. (references) |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "Accentual" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Accentual" is used about 18 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 18 | 82,615 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "accentual": accentual system. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
accentual | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "accentual"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | që i përket theksit. (various references) | |
Arabic | يؤكد. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | ритмически, тонически (tonic), отнасящ се до ударението. (various references) | |
Farsi | موکد (Emphatic), مربوطبه تکیه ء صدا, مشدد (Resonator), لهجه ای 1, تکیه دار, دارای تاکید. (various references) | |
German | akzentuierend (accenting). (various references) | |
Greek | τονικόσ (tonal, tonic), τονικός. (various references) | |
Hungarian | hangsúlyos (emphatic, stressful). (various references) | |
Indonesian | bertekanan, beraksen. (various references) | |
Italian | accentuativa. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | accentualay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | relativo ao acento. (various references) | |
Russian | тонический (tonic), относящийся к ударению. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | akcentski. (various references) | |
Spanish | tónico (bracing, pick me up, tonic). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | тонічний (tonic). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "accentual": accentually. (additional references) | |
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"Accentual" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: acceptual, acentral, centual. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "accentual" (pronounced 'Ac*cen"tu*al'): Abactinal, Abbatial, Abbatical, Abdal, Aberrational, Abettal, Abhal, Abhominal, Abiological, Abnormal, Aboral, Abortional, Abranchial, Absinthial, Abstractional, Abuttal, Abysmal, Abyssal, Academial, Accessional, Accessorial, Accipitral, Accrementitial, Accrual, Accusal, Accusatival, Accusatorial, Acephal, Acerval, Acetal, Achenial, Acnodal, Aconital, Acoustical, Acquittal, Acranial, Acritical, Acromial, Acropetal, Acroterial, Actinal, Actinozoal, Actuarial, Adagial, Adambulacral, Adaptorial, Adenological, Adjectional, Adjectival, Adjournal. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-c-c-e-l-n-t-u" | |
-1 letter: acutance, canulate, lacunate, tenacula. | |
-2 letters: canulae, lactean, lacunae. | |
-3 letters: accent, acetal, actual, acuate, anlace, caecal, cancel, cantle, canula, catena, cental, cuneal, eluant, lacuna, lacune, lanate, lancet, launce, lucent, lunate, unlace. | |
-4 letters: aceta, acute, alane, alant, alate, antae, caeca, canal, cecal, centu, clean, cleat, culet, eclat, enact, lance, laten, lauan, leant, lunet, lutea, natal, ulnae. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-c-c-e-l-n-t-u" | |
+2 letters: acaulescent, accentually, accountable, uncatchable. | |
+3 letters: inaccurately, unacceptable, unacceptably, unacclimated, uncalculated. | |
+4 letters: coeducational, recalculating, recalculation, unaccountable, undialectical, unspectacular. | |
+5 letters: calculatedness, counterbalance, counterfactual, inarticulacies, nonaccountable, nonspectacular, recalculations, unacclimatized, unacculturated. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
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