vowel sound

1. 1.

   a speech sound made with the vocal tract open

   Synonymsvowel

   Broaderphone

   Narrowerablautdiphthongschwastem vowel

Questions about vowel sound

What does vowel sound mean?

vowel sound means "a speech sound made with the vocal tract open".

What is another word for vowel sound?

Close synonyms include vowel. 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 vowel sound a common word?

vowel sound 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.