Spelling Accent Example

Orthography   /   by admin   /   July 04, 2021

The sign called tilde that is written as a small diagonal line and descends from right to left over a vowel in the stressed syllable of a word (´) is known as an orthographic accent.

The orthographic accent It is classified into four classes according to the place where the stressed syllable has within the word:

Sharp words or oxytons: the stressed syllable is the last one and they are stressed whenever they end in “n, s, vowel”.

Serious, plain or paroxitonic words: the stressed syllable is the penultimate syllable and they are stressed as long as they do not end in “n, s, vowel”.

Sdrugal words: the stressed syllable is the penultimate syllable and they are always stressed except those that come from a noun that does not carry orthographic accent, plus the adverb mind.

Words about esdrújulas: the stressed syllable is before the penultimate and follow the stress rules of the esdrújulas.

There is a type of orthographic accent which is called diacritical and is used to differentiate words that are written in the same way but have a different meaning.

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The orthographic accent is the one marked with a line called the accent. This is placed on top of some weak vowels.

Examples of accent spelling in sharp words:

  1. Anise
  2. Truck
  3. Cancun 
  4. Will eat 
  5. Cuts 
  6. Scorpion
  7. French 
  8. Will prevent 
  9. English 
  10. It rained
  11. Marquis 
  12. Paris 
  13. Seraph 
  14. Transformed
  15. Fiddle

Examples of accent spelling in serious words:

  1. Album
  2. Alcazar
  3. Ensign
  4. Amber
  5. Angel
  6. Tree
  7. Car
  8. Chalice
  9. Catheter
  10. Hard
  11. Gonzalez
  12. Skilled
  13. Martyr
  14. Perez
  15. Tactile

Examples of spelling accent in esdrújulas words:

  1. Abacus
  2. Antigone
  3. Warlike
  4. Decade
  5. Fantastic
  6. Geographical
  7. Geometric
  8. Graphic
  9. Microphone
  10. Naples
  11. Orders
  12. Oxygen
  13. Soviet
  14. Finished
  15. Triangle

Examples of diacritical spelling accent:

  1. De (preposition) - give (from the verb give).
  2. Se (personal pronoun - se (from the verb to be).
  3. Si (conditional conjunction) - yes (adverb of affirmation).
  4. My (possessive) - me (personal pronoun).
  5. El (article) - he (personal pronoun).
  6. More (adversative conjunction) - more (adverb of quantity).
  7. Te (personal pronoun) - tea (noun).
  8. Tu (possessive) - tú (personal pronoun).
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