sandhi

1. 1.

   the articulatory process whereby the pronunciation of a word or morpheme changes when it is followed immediately by another (especially in fluent speech)

   Broaderarticulation

Other forms of sandhi

plural

sandhis·

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 sandhi

What does sandhi mean?

sandhi means "the articulatory process whereby the pronunciation of a word or morpheme changes when it is followed immediately by another (especially in fluent speech)".

How many syllables are in sandhi?

sandhi has 2 syllables: sand-hi. The stress falls on "sand".

Is sandhi a common word?

sandhi 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.