velar

1. 1.

   of or relating to the velum
2. 2.

   produced with the back of the tongue touching or near the soft palate (as `k' in `cat' and `g' in `gun' and `ng' in `sing')

   Similarhard

1. 1.

   a consonant produced with the back of the tongue touching or near the soft palate

   Synonymsvelar consonant

   Broaderconsonant

Other forms of velar

plural

velars·

comparative

velarrer·

superlative

velarrest·

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 velar

What does velar mean?

velar means "of or relating to the velum". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in velar?

velar has 2 syllables: ve-lar. The stress falls on "ve".

What is another word for velar?

Close synonyms include velar consonant. 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 velar a common word?

velar 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.