labiodental consonant

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   a consonant whose articulation involves the lips and teeth

   Synonymslabiodental

   Broaderconsonant

Questions about labiodental consonant

What does labiodental consonant mean?

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

What is another word for labiodental consonant?

Close synonyms include labiodental. 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 consonant a common word?

labiodental 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.