alveolar

Other forms of alveolar

plural

alveolars·

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 alveolar

What does alveolar mean?

alveolar means "pertaining to the tiny air sacs of the lungs". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in alveolar?

alveolar has 4 syllables: al-ve-o-lar. The stress falls on "ve". In IPA it is /ælˈviəlɚ/.

What is another word for alveolar?

Close synonyms include alveolar consonant, dental consonant, dental. 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 alveolar a common word?

alveolar 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.