voiceless consonant

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   a consonant produced without sound from the vocal cords

   Synonymssurd

   Broaderconsonant

Questions about voiceless consonant

What does voiceless consonant mean?

voiceless consonant means "a consonant produced without sound from the vocal cords".

What is another word for voiceless consonant?

Close synonyms include surd. 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 voiceless consonant a common word?

voiceless 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.