pharyngeal consonant

1. 1.

   a consonant articulated in the back of the mouth or throat

   Synonymsgutturalguttural consonantpharyngeal

   Broaderconsonant

Questions about pharyngeal consonant

What does pharyngeal consonant mean?

pharyngeal consonant means "a consonant articulated in the back of the mouth or throat".

What is another word for pharyngeal consonant?

Close synonyms include guttural, guttural consonant, pharyngeal. 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 pharyngeal consonant a common word?

pharyngeal 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.