dissimilation

13 letters · noun · scores 4,200 in SpellHuntr

noun

a linguistic process by which one of two similar sounds in a word becomes less like the other

Dissimilation in a sentence

Brimstone is "properly" *brinstone, displaying an ancient careless pronunciation made respectable by being called "dissimilation".

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