sibilant consonant

1. 1.

   a consonant characterized by a hissing sound (like s or sh)

   Synonymssibilant

   Broaderfricative consonant

Questions about sibilant consonant

What does sibilant consonant mean?

sibilant consonant means "a consonant characterized by a hissing sound (like s or sh)".

What is another word for sibilant consonant?

Close synonyms include sibilant. 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 sibilant consonant a common word?

sibilant 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.