nasal consonant

1. 1.

   a consonant produced through the nose with the mouth closed

   Synonymsnasal

   Broaderconsonant

Questions about nasal consonant

What does nasal consonant mean?

nasal consonant means "a consonant produced through the nose with the mouth closed".

What is another word for nasal consonant?

Close synonyms include nasal. 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 nasal consonant a common word?

nasal 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.