murmur vowel

1. 1.

   a schwa that is incidental to the pronunciation of a consonant

   Synonymsmurmur

   Broaderschwa

Questions about murmur vowel

What does murmur vowel mean?

murmur vowel means "a schwa that is incidental to the pronunciation of a consonant".

What is another word for murmur vowel?

Close synonyms include murmur. 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 murmur vowel a common word?

murmur vowel 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.