plosive consonant

Questions about plosive consonant

What does plosive consonant mean?

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

What is another word for plosive consonant?

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

plosive 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.