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Answer for the clue "Word having stress or acute accent on the next to last syllable ", 10 letters:
paroxytone

Word definitions for paroxytone in dictionaries

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. (context of a word, especially an Ancient Greek word English) Having the stress or accent on the penultimate syllable. n. A paroxytone word.

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. word having stress or acute accent on the next to last syllable

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Paroxytone \Par*ox"y*tone\, n. [Gr. ?, a. See Para- , and Oxytone .] (Gr. Gram.) A word having an acute accent on the penultimate syllable.

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Paroxytone is a linguistic term for a word with stress on the penultimate syllable, that is, the second last syllable, such as the English word potato . In Italian and Portuguese , most words are like that. In Polish , almost all words have paroxytonic ...