orinasal phone

1. 1.

   a speech sound produced with both the oral and nasal passages open (as French nasal vowels)

   Synonymsorinasal

   Broaderphone

Questions about orinasal phone

What does orinasal phone mean?

orinasal phone means "a speech sound produced with both the oral and nasal passages open (as French nasal vowels)".

What is another word for orinasal phone?

Close synonyms include orinasal. 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 orinasal phone a common word?

orinasal phone 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.