What does "affricate" mean?

A single speech sound produced combining a plosive and a fricative.

How do you pronounce "affricate"?

Pronounced //ˈæf.ɹɪ.kət//.

Common synonyms include: affricate consonant, affricative, articulate, combined stop fricative, compound consonant, double articulation.

/ˈæf.ɹɪ.kət/ noun, verb

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Noun

1
A single speech sound produced combining a plosive and a fricative.
2
a composite speech sound consisting of a stop and a fricative articulated at the same point (as ‘ch’ in ‘chair’ and ‘j’ in ‘joy’) wordnet

Verb

"The Hebrew letter tsadi probably didn't originally have an affricate pronunciation."

From Latin affricātus.