affricate

1. 1.

   a composite speech sound consisting of a stop and a fricative articulated at the same point (as `ch' in `chair' and `j' in `joy')

   Synonymsaffricate consonantaffricative

   Broaderobstruent

Other forms of affricate

plural

affricates·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about affricate

What does affricate mean?

affricate means "a composite speech sound consisting of a stop and a fricative articulated at the same point (as `ch' in `chair' and `j' in `joy')".

How many syllables are in affricate?

affricate has 3 syllables: af-fri-cate. The stress falls on "af". In IPA it is /ˈæfɹəkət/.

What is another word for affricate?

Close synonyms include affricate consonant, affricative. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is affricate a common word?

affricate is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.