Affricate

/ˈæf.ɹɪ.kət/

Synonyms for "affricate" (10 found)

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Closest matches (2)

Noun(2 words)
affricate consonantaffricative

Strong matches (3)

Noun(3 words)
articulatecombined stop fricativecompound consonant

Related words (5)

Noun(5 words)
double articulationformproducestop fricativestop-fricative

Related word relations

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5 relation types

More general

8 entries
consonantconsonant typelinguistic actionlinguistic operationobstruentphoneme typephonetic processphonological process

More specific

9 entries
alveolar affricatealveolar affricationdental affricationpalatoalveolar affricatepostalveolar affricatepostalveolar affricationvelar affricatevoiced postalveolar affricatevoiceless alveolar affricate

Collocations

11 entries
affricate consonantaffrication processaffricative consonantalveolar affricatedental affricatepalatal affricatepostalveolar affricatevoiced affricatevoiced postalveolar affricatevoiceless affricatevoiceless alveolar affricate

Inflections

5 entries
affricatedaffricatesaffricatingmore affricatemost affricate

Derivations

4 entries

Sample sentences

1 total sentences available.

Tatoeba + Wiktionary

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

Source: tatoeba (10463350)

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