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Showing words for DIPHTHONG using the English dictionary

9 Letter Words for Diphthong

diphthong

7 Letter Words for Diphthong

hightop, phonghi

6 Letter Words for Diphthong

doping, doting, higdon, hohing, hoping, opting, pongid, poting, toping

5 Letter Words for Diphthong

dhoni, dhoti, dight, dingo, doigt, doing, gipon, gondi, gonid, hight, hoing, hongi, ingot, night, ohing, oping, pight, pingo, pinot, pinto, piton, poind, point, potin, thigh, thing, thong, tigon, tondi, tophi

4 Letter Words for Diphthong

ding, dino, dint, dipt, doit, dong, doni, dont, doth, gith, gond, goth, high, hind, hing, hint, hipt, hogh, hoin, hoit, hond, hong, hont, hopi, hoth, hoti, ingo, into, nigh, niog, nito, nodi, odin, oint, phit, phoh, phon, phot, pind, ping, pino, pint, pion, pith, pond, pong, pont, poti, thig, thin, thio, thon, tind, ting, tong, toph, topi

3 Letter Words for Diphthong

dig, din, dip, dit, dog, don, dop, dot, dph, dpi, dpt, gdp, gid, gin, gio, git, gnp, god, goi, gon, gop, got, gpd, gph, gtd, hgt, hhd, hid, hin, hip, hit, hod, hog, hoh, hoi, hon, hop, hot, ido, idp, ign, ihp, ind, ing, int, ion, iph, ipo, itd, nid, nig, nip, nit, nod, nog, noh, not, nth, oni, ont, opt, pdn, phd, phi, pho, pht, pid, pig, pin, pit, pod, poh, poi, pon, pot, ptg, tgn, thd, tho, tid, tig, tin, tip, tng, tod, tog, toi, ton, top, tpd, tph, tpi

Definitions for Diphthong

[1] Phonetics . an unsegmentable, gliding speech sound varying continuously in phonetic quality but held to be a single sound or phoneme and identified by its apparent beginning and ending sound, as the oi- sound of toy or boil.
[2] (not in technical use) a digraph, as the ea of meat. a ligature, as æ.
[3] to diphthongize.
[4] a vowel sound, occupying a single syllable, during the articulation of which the tongue moves from one position to another, causing a continual change in vowel quality, as in the pronunciation of a in English late, during which the tongue moves from the position of (e) towards (ɪ )
[5] a digraph or ligature representing a composite vowel such as this, as ae in Caesar

Words related to Diphthong

click, consonant, liquid, phone, sonant, affricate, fricative, implosive, plosive, sibilant, spirant, syllable, vocable

Words nearby Diphthong

diphtheria antitoxin, diphtheria, tetanus toxoids, and pertussis vaccine, diphtheritic, diphtheritic membrane, diphtheroid, diphthong, diphthongia, diphthongize, diphycercal, diphyletic, diphyllobothriasis

Origin of Diphthong

1425–75; late Middle English diptonge < Late Latin diphthongus < Greek díphthongos literally, having two sounds (di- di-1 + phthóngos voice, sound)

Other words from Diphthong

diph·thon·gal [dif-thawng -guh  l, -thong -, dip-] /dɪfˈθɔŋ gəl, -ˈθɒŋ-, dɪp-/ , diph·thon·gic , diph·thon·gous , adjective
non·diph·thon·gal , adjective

Word origin for Diphthong

C15: from Late Latin diphthongus, from Greek diphthongos, from di- 1 + phthongos sound

Synonyms for Diphthong

affricate, click, consonant, fricative, implosive, liquid, phone, phonetic entity, phonetic unit, plosive, sibilant, sonant, spirant, syllable, vocable