tilde

5 letters · noun · scores 800 in SpellHuntr

noun

a diacritical mark (~) placed over the letter n in Spanish to indicate a palatal nasal sound or over a vowel in Portuguese to indicate nasalization

Tilde in a sentence

The tilde was used similarly in Portuguese on vowels to show that the letter bearing the tilde should be pronounced nasally.

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