labiodental

1. 1.

   a consonant whose articulation involves the lips and teeth

   Synonymslabiodental consonant

   Broaderconsonant

Other forms of labiodental

plural

labiodentals·

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 labiodental

What does labiodental mean?

labiodental means "a consonant whose articulation involves the lips and teeth".

How many syllables are in labiodental?

labiodental has 5 syllables: la-bi-o-den-tal. The stress falls on "o".

What is another word for labiodental?

Close synonyms include labiodental consonant. 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 labiodental a common word?

labiodental 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.