uvular

1. 1.

   of or relating to or associated with the uvula

   “the uvular r”

Questions about uvular

What does uvular mean?

uvular means "of or relating to or associated with the uvula".

How many syllables are in uvular?

uvular has 3 syllables and divides as u-vu-lar 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.

Is uvular a common word?

uvular 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.