nonacrophonic

English

Etymology

From non- +‎ acrophonic.

Adjective

nonacrophonic (not comparable)

1. (of a letter) Not acrophonic; having a name whose initial sound differs from the sound it represents.
   • 2009, Anna C. Both-de Vries, Adriana G. Bus, “It's All in the Name”, in Dorit Aram, Ofra Korat, editor, Literacy Development and Enhancement Across Orthographies and Cultures, page 10:

     Children may have more to gain from acrophonic first letters than from nonacrophonic letters since it is easier to recognize /b/ in 'bear' than /es/ in 'stone.'

   • 2014, Rebecca Treiman, Brett Kessler, How Children Learn to Write Words, page 197:

     Some languages have only acrophonic letter names, and others have some phonetically iconic but nonacrophonic names as well.

   • 2018, Christina M. Cassano, Susan M. Dougherty, Pivotal Research in Early Literacy, page 99:

     Letter-related factors included letter-name structures (e.g., CV or VC letter-name structures versus nonacrophonic letter names) and letter–sound ambiguity (e.g., letters that are associated with more than one sound or that share a sound with another letter).