velar consonant

1. 1.

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

   Synonymsvelar

   Broaderconsonant

Questions about velar consonant

What does velar consonant mean?

velar consonant means "a consonant produced with the back of the tongue touching or near the soft palate".

What is another word for velar consonant?

Close synonyms include velar. 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 consonant a common word?

velar 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.