Synonyms for "hoarseness" (26 found)

Ranked by relevance and common usage.

Closest matches (6)

cacophonycoarsenesscroakcrowdiscorddryness

Strong matches (7)

dysphasiafalsettogruffnessharshnesshiss

Noun(2 words)

dysphoniagruffness

Related words (13)

Noun(2 words)

huskinessraucity

lispnasalizationquaverroughnessrudenessshakesibilationthicknesstremortwangugliness

Related word relations

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4 relation types

More general

2 entries

harshnessroughness

Synonyms

1 entries

gruffness

derived from

1 entries

hoarse

related to

2 entries

hoarsevoice

Translations

32 translations across 23 languages.

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Ancient Greek

2 entries

• βράγχος noun (having dry harsh voice)
• κέρχνος noun (having dry harsh voice)

Arabic

1 entries

• بُحَاح noun (having dry harsh voice)

Azerbaijani

1 entries

• xırıltı noun (having dry harsh voice)

Catalan

2 entries

• rogall noun (having dry harsh voice)
• ronquera noun (having dry harsh voice)

Czech

1 entries

• chrapot noun (having dry harsh voice)

Finnish

1 entries

• käheys noun (having dry harsh voice)

Galician

1 entries

• rouquén noun (having dry harsh voice)

German

1 entries

• Heiserkeit noun (having dry harsh voice)

Icelandic

1 entries

• hæsi noun (having dry harsh voice)

Indonesian

2 entries

• keparauan noun (having dry harsh voice)
• keserakan noun (having dry harsh voice)

Irish

1 entries

• piachán noun (having dry harsh voice)

Italian

4 entries

• arrochimento noun (having dry harsh voice)
• raucedine noun (having dry harsh voice)
• rocaggine noun (having dry harsh voice)
• rochezza noun (having dry harsh voice)

Latin

1 entries

• rāvis noun (having dry harsh voice)

Middle English

1 entries

• hosnesse noun (having dry harsh voice)

Norwegian Bokmål

2 entries

• heshet noun (having dry harsh voice)
• håshet noun (having dry harsh voice)

Old English

1 entries

• hāsnes noun (having dry harsh voice)

Polish

2 entries

• chrypa noun (having dry harsh voice)
• chrypka noun (having dry harsh voice)

Portuguese

1 entries

• rouquidão noun (having dry harsh voice)

Romanian

1 entries

• răgușeală noun (having dry harsh voice)

Russian

1 entries

• хрипота noun (having dry harsh voice)

Scottish Gaelic

1 entries

• tùchan noun (having dry harsh voice)

Spanish

2 entries

• ronquera noun (having dry harsh voice)
• ronquez noun (having dry harsh voice)

Swedish

1 entries

• heshet noun (having dry harsh voice)

Sample sentences

1 total sentences available.

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The hoarseness of her voice was caused by years of smoking.

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