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    Macron

    Definition

    noun | a diacritical mark (-) placed above a vowel to indicate a long sound

    Hyphenation

    ma-cron (6 letters | 2 syllables)

    First known use in English

    1851 (Victorian era) (174 years ago)

    Word origin

    Modern Greek

    Word frequency history

    Word frequency history

    Inflected form

    macrons

    Broader terms

    diacritic | diacritical mark

    Lexically close words

    Dacron | macros | matron | micron

    Anagrams

    (none among common words)

    Other notable uses

    macron.com

    Crossword puzzle clues

    Diacritical mark | Long-vowel mark
(based on all New York Times crossword puzzles 1994 to 2009)

    Scrabble score

    10 (International English) | 10 (North American English)

    Phone keypad digits

    (???) ?62-2766

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