You can make 43 words from accent according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.
Definitions and meaning of accent
accent
Etymology 1
From Middle Englishaccent, from Medieval Latinaccentus and Old Frenchaccent, acent, both from Latinaccentus, past participle of accinō(“sing to, sing along”). The word accent had been borrowed into Old English already, but was lost and reborrowed in Middle English.
(linguistics) A higher-pitched or stronger (louder or longer) articulation of a particular syllable of a word or phrase in order to distinguish it from the others or to emphasize it.
(orthography) A mark or character used in writing, in order to indicate the place of the spoken accent, or to indicate the nature or quality of the vowel marked.
Modulation of the voice in speaking; the manner of speaking or pronouncing; a peculiar or characteristic modification of the voice, expressing emotion; tone.
(linguistics, sociolinguistics) The distinctive manner of pronouncing a language associated with a particular region, social group, etc., whether of a native speaker or a foreign speaker; the phonetic and phonological aspects of a dialect.
(informal, sometimes proscribed) A manner of pronunciation suggesting that the speaker is from a different region; a foreign accent.
(sign languages) A distinctive manner of producing a sign language, such as someone who does not normally use a certain sign language might have when using it.
A word; a significant tone or sound.
(usually plural only) Expressions in general; speech.
(prosody, poetry) Stress laid on certain syllables of a verse.
(music) A regularly recurring stress upon the tone to mark the beginning, and, more feebly, the third part of the measure.
(music) A special emphasis of a tone, even in the weaker part of the measure.
(music) A mark used to represent this special emphasis.
(music) The rhythmical accent, which marks phrases and sections of a period.
(mathematics) A prime symbol.
Emphasis laid on a part of an artistic design or composition; an emphasized detail, in particular a detail in sharp contrast to its surroundings.
A very small gemstone set into a piece of jewellery.
(archaic) Utterance.
Usage notes
The word "accent" is often used specifically to refer to manners of speech that differ significantly from the local standard or one's personal speech.
Derived terms
Translations
See also
circumflex
References
“Accent, sb.” on pages 50–51 of § 1 (A) of volume I (A–B, ed. James Augustus Henry Murray?, 1888) of A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles (1st ed.)
“accent, n.” in the Oxford English Dictionary (2nd ed., 1989)
Etymology 2
From Middle Frenchaccenter, from Old Frenchaccenter, from Latinaccentō, from accentus.
accent (third-person singular simple presentaccents, present participleaccenting, simple past and past participleaccented)
(transitive) To express the accent of vocally; to utter with accent.
(transitive) To mark emphatically; to emphasize; to accentuate; to make prominent.
(transitive) To mark with written accents.
Translations
References
“Accent, v.” on page 51/3 of § 1 (A) of volume I (A–B, ed. James Augustus Henry Murray?, 1888) of A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles (1st ed.)
“accent, v.” in the Oxford English Dictionary (2nd ed., 1989)
Catalan
Etymology
Borrowed from Latinaccentus.
Pronunciation
IPA(key): (Central)[əkˈsen]
IPA(key): (Balearic)[əkˈsent]
IPA(key): (Valencian)[akˈsent]
Noun
accentm (pluralaccents)
accent
(phonology) stress
(often plural) tone, sound
Derived terms
Related terms
accentuar
Further reading
“accent” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
“accent” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
Danish
Etymology 1
From Frenchaccent, from Latinaccentus, a calque of Ancient Greekπροσῳδία(prosōidía, “prosody, accent”).
L’accent est mis sur les quantités plutôt que sur les qualités. ― Emphasis is placed on the quantities rather than the qualities.
Derived terms
mettre l’accent sur
Descendants
→ Norwegian Bokmål: accent
→ Turkish: aksan
Further reading
“accent”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé[Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Norman
Etymology
From Old Frenchacent, from Latinaccentus, from ad + cantus(“song”).
Noun
accentm (pluralaccents)
(linguistics)accent, stress
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
From Frenchaccent(“accent, manner or tone of speech”), from Middle Frenchaccent, from Old Frenchacent, from Latinaccentus(“accent, tone, accentuation”), past participle of accinō(“sing to, sing along”), from bothad-(“to”), from ad(“to, towards”), from Proto-Italic*ad(“toward, to, on, up to, for”), from Proto-Indo-European*h₂éd(“to, at”) + and from canō(“I sing, recite, play”), from Proto-Italic*kanō(“to sing”), from Proto-Indo-European*keh₂n-(“to sing”).
Pronunciation
IPA(key): /akˈsaŋ/
Rhymes: -aŋ
Hyphenation: ac‧cent
Homophone: aksent
Noun
accent
Alternative spelling of aksent(“accent”)
Only used in accent aigu(“acute accent”)
Only used in accent circonflexe(“circumflex”)
Only used in accent grave(“grave accent”)
References
“accent” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).
Old English
Etymology
Borrowed from Latinaccentus.
Pronunciation
IPA(key): /ˈɑk.kent/
Noun
accentm
accent
diacritic
Declension
References
John R. Clark Hall (1916) “accent”, in A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary[7], 2nd edition, New York: Macmillan
Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) “accent”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Pali
Alternative forms
Adjective
accent
present active participle of acceti
Declension
Romanian
Etymology
Borrowed from Frenchaccent.
Pronunciation
Noun
accentn (pluralaccente)
emphasis
accent
Declension
Scots
Pronunciation
IPA(key): /a(k)ˈsɛnt/
Noun
accent (pluralaccents)
accent
Swedish
Etymology
Ultimately from Latinaccentus.
Pronunciation
IPA(key): /akːˈsɛnːt/, /akːˈsaŋː/
Noun
accentc
an accent, an emphasis, a stress (in articulation)
an accent, a mark on a letter (grave or acute)
an accent, a voice influenced by dialect or another language