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Below is a list of English language words that have letters with diacritical marks. Most of the words listed here are loanwords from French, with others coming from Spanish, German, or other languages. Some are however originally English, or at least their diacritics are. One example is the oö in the now extremely rare variant spellings of words such as coöperation (compare the original French coopération), many of which are normally spelled with a hyphen to separate the two vowels, eg co-operation. Many of these spellings are so rare that they cannot be said to be part of the standard language.
The list includes a number of French culinary terms which are in use in English-speaking countries because it is customary to use French in menus: these cannot be said to be part of the standard English language. Other words are only used in foreign contexts.
Many of the words listed below are proper names.
A few English words can only be distinguished from others by a diacritic or modified letter, including animé, exposé, lamé, maté, öre, øre, pâté, piqué, rosé. The same is true of résumé, alternately resumé, but it is sometimes spelled resume in the US, and saké, which is sometimes spelled sake by colloquial English-speakers unfamiliar with diacritics.
For some words listed below, usage of diacritics is rare.
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A
à bas, à la, à la carte, à la mode, à gogo and àgo-go, abbé, adiós, agrément, Ancien Régime, ångström, animé (either the oleo-resin, or Japanese animation, which is usually spelled without the diacritic), añu, áo dài, apéritif, appliqué, après-ski, arête, attaché, auto-da-fé, açaí
B
belle époque, bête noire, bêtise, blasé, boîte, Bön, Boötes, boutonnière, bric-à-brac
C
café, canapé, cañón (rare or obsolete - now canyon), Champs-Élysées, château, chargé d'affaires, cause célèbre, chaînés, cinéma vérité, cliché, cloisonné, consommé, communiqué, confrère, continuüm (rare), coöperate [-ion, -ive], coöpt, coördinate [-ed, -ing, -ion, -or, -ors], cortège, coup d'état, coup de grâce, crèche, coulée, crème, crème brûlée, crème caramel, crème de cacao, crème de menthe, crème fraîche, crêpe, crêpe paper, crêpe suzette, Creüsa, croûton, crudités, Curaçao
D
daïs, dấu hỏi, débâcle, débutante, déclassé, décolletage, décolleté, décor, découpage, dégagé, déjà vu, démodé, dénouement, dépôt (rare), dérailleur, derrière, déshabillé, détente, diamanté, discothèque, divorcé(e), Doña, doppelgänger
E
éclair, éclat, ëconomy [-ic, -ics, -ical, -ically, -ist, -ists] (rare), ëcumenism [-ical, -ically] (rare), Éire, El Niño, élan, élite, émigré, entrée, entrepôt, entrecôte, épée, étouffée, étude, exposé
F
façade, fête, faïence, fiancé, fiancée, filmjölk, fin de siècle, flambé, flèche, föhn wind, folie à deux, fouetté, frappé, fräulein, Führer
G
garçon, gâteau, gemütlichkeit, glacé, glögg, Gewürztraminer, Götterdämmerung, Gräfenberg spot, gruyère (cheese)
H
habitué, háček, hôtel (rare), hors d’œuvre
I
ingénue
J
K
kroužek, kümmel, kåldolmar, karaōke
L
lamé, ländler, langue d'oïl, La Niña, littérateur, lycée
M
macédoine, macramé, maître d'hôtel, malagueña, mañana, manège, manœuvre, manqué, maté, matériel, matinée, mélange, mêlée, ménage à trois, mésalliance, métier, Métis, minaudière, moiré, Montréal
N
naïf, naïve, naïveté, né, née, négligée, Neufchâtel, Nez Percé, Noël, noöne (rare), número uno (Spanish with accent, Italian without), Montaño
O
objet trouvé, olé, ombré, omertà, oölogy (rare), opéra bouffe, opéra comique, opïum (rare), öre, øre, outré
P
papier-mâché, passé, pâté, phở, pièce de résistance, pied-à-terre, plissé, piña colada, piñata, piñón, piraña (usually piranha), piqué, più, plié, précis, pölsa, preëminent [-ly] (rare), preëmpt [-ion, -ive] (rare), première, première danseuse, prêt-à-porter, protégé, protégée, purée
Q
Québécois
R
raison d'être, recherché, réclame, reëlect [-ed, -ing] (rare), reënter [-ed, -ing] (rare), reëstablish [-ed, -ing] (rare), régime, résumé, residuüm (rare), retroussé, risqué, rôle, rivière, roman à clef, rosé, roué
S
sauté, séance, señor, señora, señorita, Sinn Féin, smörgåsbord, smörgåstårta, soigné, soirée, soufflé, soupçon, surströmming
T
tête-à-tête, touché, tourtière
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See also
- English words with diacritics
- Diacritics
- Loan words
- English language: Written accents
- Heavy metal umlaut
Lists
- Lists of English words of international origin
- List of English words of French origin
- French phrases used by English speakers
- List of German expressions in English
- List of English words of Spanish origin
- List of Spanish expressions in common English
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