sonority

Questions about sonority

What does sonority mean?

sonority means "having the character of a loud deep sound; the quality of being resonant".

How many syllables are in sonority?

sonority has 4 syllables and divides as so-no-ri-ty under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for sonority?

Close synonyms include plangency, resonance, reverberance, ringing, sonorousness. 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 sonority a common word?

sonority 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.