DIAERESIS

noun

10 Scrabble

10 WWF

D 2

I 1

A 1

E 1

R 1

E 1

S 1

I 1

S 1

Definition

A diacritic ( ¨ ) placed over a vowel letter (especially the second of two consecutive ones) indicating that it is sounded separately, usually forming a distinct syllable, as in the English words naïve, Noël and Brontë, the French haïr and the Dutch ruïne.