how to pronounce diaeresis

/daɪˈɛɹ.ə.sɪs/

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diaeresis is pronounced in four syllables

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meanings of diaeresis

noun:

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.
A natural break in rhythm when a word ends at the end of a metrical foot, in a line of verse.
Hiatus; the occurrence of separate vowel sounds in adjacent syllables without an intervening consonant.
Distraction; the separation of a vowel, often a diphthong, into two distinct syllables.

diaeresis frequency in english - C2+ level of CEFR

the word diaeresis occurs in english on average 0 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for C2+ level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.

topics diaeresis can be related to

it is hard to perfectly classify words into specific topics since each word can have many context of its use, but our machine-learning models believe that diaeresis can be often used in the following areas:

1) communication, information, and media;