Definitions for accentual

accentual ac·cen·tu·al

Spelling: [ak-sen-choo-uh l]
IPA: /ækˈsɛn tʃu əl/

Accentual is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 18 points.

You can make 286 anagrams from letters in accentual (aaccelntu).

Definitions for accentual

adjective

  1. of or relating to accent or stress.
  2. Prosody. of or relating to poetry based on the number of stresses, as distinguished from poetry depending on the number of syllables or quantities.

Origin of accentual

1600-10; Latin accentu(s) (see accent) + -al1

Examples for accentual

There are sure to be foreign sounds or accentual peculiarities that do not fit the native phonetic habits.

An appendix deals with the accentual element in early Latin verse.

The series of values for the four accentual positions follows.

The main law for all accentual versification is this, that verse-accent must always coincide with word-accent.

There is no such thing as quantity except so far as it is accentual also.

First, the quantitative character of the ancient rhythms as opposed to the accentual character of English verse.

Sherwood Forest, for instance, is a killing field of accentual integrity.

And he expounds the English accentual verse-system with clearness and vigor.

Under these circumstances there can, I think, be little doubt as to the literary parentage of Spenser's accentual measure.

For these, too, the general law observed in all accentual poetry holds good, viz.

Word Value for accentual
Scrable

13

Words with friends

18

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