plosive speech sound

Questions about plosive speech sound

What does plosive speech sound mean?

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

What is another word for plosive speech sound?

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

plosive speech sound 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.