plosive

Other forms of plosive

plural

plosives·

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.

Questions about plosive

What does plosive mean?

plosive means "a consonant produced by stopping the flow of air at some point and suddenly releasing it".

How many syllables are in plosive?

plosive has 2 syllables: plo-sive. The stress falls on "plo". In IPA it is /ˈploʊsɪv/.

What is another word for plosive?

Close synonyms include stop consonant, stop, occlusive, plosive consonant, plosive speech sound. 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 plosive a common word?

plosive 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.