Definitions for acrophony

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acrophony a·croph·o·ny

Spelling: [uh-krof-uh-nee]

IPA: /əˈkrɒf ə ni/

Acrophony is a 9 letter English word.

You can make 327 anagrams from letters in acrophony (achnoopry).

Definitions for acrophony

noun

1. the use of what was originally a logogram as a phonetic symbol for the initial sound of the word the logogram represented, as, in Semitic writing, the use of a picture of a shepherd's crook to represent the sound (l), the first sound of lamed, the Hebrew word for a shepherd's crook.
2. the use of a word as the name of the alphabetical symbol representing the initial sound of that word.

Origin of acrophony

First recorded in 1880-85; acro- + -phony