Orthoepies is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 16 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.
You can make 671 anagrams from letters in orthoepies (eehiooprst).
1660-70; Greek orthoépeia correctness of diction, equivalent to ortho- ortho- + epe- (stem of épos) word + -ia -y3
The following list is from Nares' orthoepy, a work to which the reader is referred.
orthoepy differs from orthography by determining how words are spoken, whereas orthography decides how they are spelt.
It has a certain crude and primitive grammar, but in point of orthoepy is extremely difficult.
It is so arranged as to teach orthography and orthoepy simultaneously.
Many of the words in most books on orthoepy are very rarely mispronounced, and they serve only to cumber the work.
In matters of orthoepy it is the usual custom to appeal to one of the following standards.
In this case it is opposed to orthoepy, orthography, syntax, and the other parts of grammar.
Orthography addresses itself to the eye, orthoepy to the ear.
To mispronounce a word because it is misspelt is only indirectly an error of orthoepy.
The orthography is according to Jack's orthoepy, for there are various spellings of the word.
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