hacek

Plural: haceks, hacky

Noun

• A diacritical mark shaped like a small hook, placed over letters.
• a diacritical mark (an inverted circumflex) placed above certain letters (such as the letter c) to indicate pronunciation
• Alternative spelling of háček.

Examples

• Finding HACEK in the dictionary felt like a linguistic treasure, a small but powerful word.

Synonyms

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