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

ideophonic

Translations

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: isifanekisozwi

See also

phonosemantic phonaesthesia onomatopoeia

Etymology

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

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