polyphone

Definitions of polyphone
  1. noun
    a letter that has two or more pronunciations
    “`c' is a polyphone because it is pronounced like `k' in `car' but like `s' in `cell'”
    synonyms: polyphonic letter
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    type of:
    alphabetic character, letter, letter of the alphabet
    the conventional characters of the alphabet used to represent speech
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