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characterattested in dialogue

Found chiefly in words borrowed from other languages. When it occurs as the last letter of the word, it indicates that the e is not silent.

character

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    Found chiefly in words borrowed from other languages. When it occurs as the last letter of the word, it indicates that the e is not silent.

    café, resumé, animé

    For details and for less common usage, see the entry for the acute accent, ⟨◌́⟩.

The neighbouring pagesAlphabetical order follows the rules of the language, not byte values: an accent decides only between two otherwise identical words, and Spanish files Ñ as a letter of its own.

Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).