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consonant harmony

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.05 in modern English

Syllables
con-so-nan-t har-mo-ny
IPA
26
Scrabble Score
16
Letters
6
Syllables
10
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A process in linguistics where nonadjacent consonants within a word assimilate to share a specific articulatory or acoustic feature, such as place of articulation, over a distance.

Countable; Uncountable

Usage

Inflected Forms

consonant harmonies (plural)

Frequently Paired Words

vowel harmony

Questions

What does consonant harmony mean?
A process in linguistics where nonadjacent consonants within a word assimilate to share a specific articulatory or acoustic feature, such as place of articulation, over a distance.

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