fricative consonant

1. 1.

   a continuant consonant produced by breath moving against a narrowing of the vocal tract

   Synonymsfricativespirant

   Broadercontinuant consonant

   Narrowersibilant

Questions about fricative consonant

What does fricative consonant mean?

fricative consonant means "a continuant consonant produced by breath moving against a narrowing of the vocal tract".

What is another word for fricative consonant?

Close synonyms include fricative, spirant. 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 fricative consonant a common word?

fricative 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.