the mark placed over a vowel in some languages to show how it should be pronounced, as over the u in the German word fur
compareACUTEACCENT, CIRCUMFLEX, GRAVE, TILDE
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for umlaut is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is umlaut a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, umlaut is tagged as noun.
Does umlaut appear elsewhere on Lughet?
Yes — umlaut appears under other sources or language pairs in Lughet's collection. See the list below.
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