Sonant

/ˈsoʊ̯n.ənt/

Synonyms for "sonant" (145 found)

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Closest matches (29)

Noun(1 words)

voiced sound

accented allophone alveolar apical apico-alveolar apico-dental articulate articulated articulation aspiration assimilated assimilation back barytone bilabial broad cacuminal central cerebral check

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checked close consonant consonantal continuant dental diphthong dissimilated

Strong matches (44)

dissimilation dorsalepenthetic vowelexplosive flat front glide glossal glottal glottalization guttural hard heavy high intonated labial labialization labiodental labiovelar laryngeal

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lateral lax light lingual liquid lowmanner of articulationmid modification monophthong monophthongal morphophoneme mute muted narrow nasal nasalized occlusive open oral oxytone

Adjective(1 words)

euphonic

Noun(2 words)

loud note

Related words (72)

palatal palatalizedparasitic vowelpeak pharyngeal pharyngealization pharyngealized phone phoneme phonemic phonetic phonic pitch pitched plosive posttonicprothetic vowelretroflex roundedsegmental phoneme

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semivowel soft sonorityspeech soundspoken stop stopped stressed strong surd syllabicsyllabic nucleussyllabic peaksyllable tense thick throaty tonal tonictransition soundtriphthong twangy unaccented unrounded unstressed velar vivaviva vocevocable vocal vocalic vocoid voice voicedvoiced soundvoicelessvoiceless soundvoicing vowel vowellike weak wide

Noun(8 words)

resonantresonant soundsonorantsonorous soundsound tone utterance vocal

Adjective(2 words)

soft voiced

Related word relations

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5 relation types

More general

7 entries

acoustic eventphone phoneme soundsound classsound propertyspeech sound

More specific

9 entries

glide liquid nasalnasal soundnote tone utterance vocalization vowel

Collocations

8 entries

sonant articulationsonant classsonant phonemesonant qualitysonant soundsonant timbresonant voicesonant vowel

Inflections

3 entries

more sonantmost sonantsonants

Derivations

2 entries

sonance sonantly

Sample sentences

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Indo-Germanic sonants and consonants

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