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aphesis

7 letters · noun · scores 1,800 in SpellHuntr

noun

the gradual disappearance of an initial (usually unstressed) vowel or syllable as in `squire' for `esquire'

Aphesis in a sentence

The word "scarp" is derived from "escarp" by aphesis.

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