noun, verb ·Uncommon ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun

1. 1
   A single speech sound produced combining a plosive and a fricative.
2. 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

1. 1
   To produce (a plosive) as an affricate. transitive

Synonyms

All synonyms

affricativeaffricate consonantaffricative

Antonyms

All antonyms

suffricate

Example

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

Etymology

From Latin affricātus.

Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.