Synonyms for "sonant" (134 found)

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Closest matches (27)

voicedaccentedallophonealveolarapicalapico-alveolarapico-dentalarticulatearticulatedarticulationaspirationassimilatedassimilationbackbarytonebilabialbroadcacuminalcentralcerebral

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checkcheckedcloseconsonantconsonantalcontinuantdental

Strong matches (40)

diphthongdissimilateddissimilationdorsalepenthetic vowelexplosiveflatfrontglideglossalglottalglottalizationgutturalhardheavyhighintonatedlabiallabializationlabiodental

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labiovelarlaryngeallaterallaxlightlingualliquidlowmanner of articulationmidmodificationmonophthongmonophthongalmorphophonememutemutednarrownasalnasalizedocclusive

Related words (67)

openoraloxytonepalatalpalatalizedparasitic vowelpeakpharyngealpharyngealizationpharyngealizedphonephonemephonemicphoneticphonicpitchpitchedplosiveposttonicprothetic vowel

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retroflexroundedsegmental phonemesemivowelsoftsonorityspeech soundspokenstopstoppedstressedstrongsurdsyllabicsyllabic nucleussyllabic peaksyllabletensethickthroatytonaltonictransition soundtriphthongtwangyunaccentedunroundedunstressedvelarvivaviva vocevocablevocalvocalicvocoidvoicevoiced soundvoicelessvoiceless soundvoicingvowelvowellikeweakwide

Adjective(2 words)

softvoiced

Noun(1 words)

voiced sound

Related word relations

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6 relation types

More general

3 entries

phonesoundspeech sound

Synonyms

1 entries

voiced

derived

3 entries

equisonantmultisonantunisonant

has context

1 entries

linguistics

is a

1 entries

phone

related to

1 entries

voiced

Sample sentences

1 total sentences available.

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Indo-Germanic sonants and consonants

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