accent

     

In linguistics, stress is the relative emphasis that may be given to certain syllables in a wor. The term is also used for similar patterns of phonetic prominence inside syllables. The word accent is sometimes also used with this sense.

Trivia about accent

  • Put this on the wrong syllable in SYL-la-ble & you get syl-LA-ble
  • You use this mark to denote which syllable is stressed