Definitions For Ideophone
Noun
IDEOPHONE (plural IDEOPHONEs) A word that utilizes sound symbolism to express aspects of events that can be experienced by the senses, like smell, color, shape, sound, action, or movement.Derived terms
ideophonicTranslations
Chinese: : Mandarin: 摹擬音, 摹拟音, tr=mónǐyīn Dutch: ideofoon, m, n Finnish: ideofoni Japanese: 擬態語 (ぎたいご, gitaigo, for something not a sound, sc=Jpan), 擬音語 (ぎおんご, giongo, for a sound, sc=Jpan) Spanish: ideófono Swedish: ideofon, c, ideofoni, c Xhosa: isifanekisozwiSee also
phonosemantic phonaesthesia onomatopoeiaEtymology
James F. Fordyce (The Ideophone as a Phonosemantic Class: The Case of Yoruba, in Current approaches to African linguistics, Ivan R. Dihoff (ed.), page 263) credits C. M. Doke with introducing the term in 1935.Is Ideophone a Scrabble Word?
Words With Friends
NO
Scrabble US
YES
Scrabble UK
YES
English International (SOWPODS)
YES
Scrabble Global
YES
Enable1 Dictionary
NO
Points in Different Games
Scrabble
15
Words with Friends
16
The word Ideophone is worth 15 points in Scrabble and 16 points in Words with Friends