Accents

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Acentos

Accents may look strange to anyone whose native language doesn’t have any, but they are extremely important in Spanish. Leaving off the accent on a word is a spelling mistake, and may cause confusion.

There are three different Spanish accents – click the links for detailed lessons.

Accent		Found on	What it does	Por ejemplo…
´	agudo acute	a, e, i, o, u	Overrides normal rules of word stress Distinguishes between otherwise identical words	árbol el vs él	tree the vs he
¨	diéresis dieresis	u	Causes u to be pronounced [w] in front of e or i	lingüística vergüenza	linguistics shame
~	tilde tilde	n	Changes pronunciation from [n] to [ɲ]	mañana baño	tomorrow bath

 Related features

• How to type Spanish accents
• The importance of accents
• More Spanish pronunciation
   

 En français

• Les accents
   

 In italiano

• Gli accenti scritti
   

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