affricate consonant

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')

   Synonymsaffricateaffricative

   Broaderobstruent

Questions about affricate consonant

What does affricate consonant mean?

affricate consonant 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')".

What is another word for affricate consonant?

Close synonyms include affricate, 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 consonant a common word?

affricate consonant is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.