diacritical mark vs dieresis

diacritical mark and dieresis both are nouns.

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

As nouns, dieresis is a hyponym of diacritical mark; that is, dieresis 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
dieresis: 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, diaeresis.

diacritical mark (noun)	dieresis (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 dieresis

diacritical mark and dieresis both are nouns.

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