stop consonant

Questions about stop consonant

What does stop consonant mean?

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

What is another word for stop consonant?

Close synonyms include stop, occlusive, plosive consonant, plosive speech sound, 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.

What is the opposite of stop consonant?

The recorded antonyms are continuant consonant.

Is stop consonant a common word?

stop 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.