spirant


spirant - noun

  • a continuant consonant produced by breath moving against a narrowing of the vocal tract

    • spirant - adjective

    • of speech sounds produced by forcing air through a constricted passage (as `f', `s', `z', or `th' in both `thin' and `then')

    spirant - thesaurus

    continuant   fricative   sibilant   strident  

    Scrabble score for spirant

    s is 1 p is 3 i is 1 r is 1 a is 1 n is 1 t is 1
    Scrabble score = 9

    generated at 00:34:28 on 09-06-25

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