sonant

Other forms of sonant

plural

sonants·

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 sonant

What does sonant mean?

sonant means "a speech sound accompanied by sound from the vocal cords". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in sonant?

sonant has 2 syllables: so-nant. The stress falls on "so".

What is another word for sonant?

Close synonyms include voiced sound, voiced, soft. 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 sonant a common word?

sonant is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.