dysphonia

1. 1.

   speech disorder attributable to a disorder of phonation

   Broaderspeech disorder

Other forms of dysphonia

plural

dysphonias·

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 dysphonia

What does dysphonia mean?

dysphonia means "speech disorder attributable to a disorder of phonation".

How many syllables are in dysphonia?

dysphonia has 4 syllables and divides as dy-spho-ni-a under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.