diacritical mark vs diaeresis

diacritical mark and diaeresis both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
diacritical mark	Yes	No	No	No
diaeresis	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, diaeresis is a hyponym of diacritical mark; that is, diaeresis is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than diacritical mark:

diacritical mark: a mark added to a letter to indicate a special pronunciation
diaeresis: a diacritical mark (two dots) placed over a vowel to indicate that it does not form a diphthong with an adjacent vowel

Other hyponyms of diacritical mark include accent, accent mark, breve, cedilla, circumflex, hacek, wedge, macron, tilde, umlaut, dieresis.

diacritical mark (noun)	diaeresis (noun)
a mark added to a letter to indicate a special pronunciation	a diacritical mark (two dots) placed over a vowel to indicate that it does not form a diphthong with an adjacent vowel

diacritical mark vs diaeresis

diacritical mark and diaeresis both are nouns.

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