vowel point

1. 1.

   a mark placed below or near a consonant (as in Hebrew or Arabic) to indicate the spoken vowel

   Broadervowel

Questions about vowel point

What does vowel point mean?

vowel point means "a mark placed below or near a consonant (as in Hebrew or Arabic) to indicate the spoken vowel".

Is vowel point a common word?

vowel point 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.