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Syllable division derived from spelling — this word is not in the pronouncing dictionary, so no phonetic transcription is shown rather than a guessed one.
palatal is an adjective and noun meaning "relating to or lying near the palate". It carries 3 recorded senses.
produced with the front of the tongue near or touching the hard palate (as `y') or with the blade of the tongue near the hard palate (as `ch' in `chin' or `j' in `gin')
a semivowel produced with the tongue near the palate (like the initial sound in the English word `yeast')
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.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for palatal come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.