bilabial

1. 1.

   a consonant that is articulated using both lips; /p/ or /b/ or /w/

   Broaderlabial consonant

1. 1.

   of or relating to or being a speech sound that is articulated using both lips

   “bilabial fricatives”

Other forms of bilabial

plural

bilabials·

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 bilabial

What does bilabial mean?

bilabial means "a consonant that is articulated using both lips; /p/ or /b/ or /w/". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in bilabial?

bilabial has 4 syllables: bi-la-bi-al. The stress falls on "bi".

Is bilabial a common word?

bilabial 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.