Speakur

Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

dentialveolar

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
den-tialve-o-lar
IPA
17
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
4
Syllables
10
Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Articulated with a flat tongue against the alveolar ridge and upper teeth.

noun

A speech sound that is articulated with a flat tongue against the alveolar ridge and upper teeth.

Etymology

From denti- + alveolar.

Word Breakdown

Inflected Forms

dentoalveolar (alternative) dentialveolars (plural)

Rhymes With

bronchioloalveolar interalveolar nonalveolar trimalleolar bimalleolar intermalleolar perialveolar transmalleolar retromalleolar labioalveolar intraalveolar subalveolar

Questions

What does dentialveolar mean?
Articulated with a flat tongue against the alveolar ridge and upper teeth.
Where does dentialveolar come from?
From denti- + alveolar.

How to pronounce dentialveolar

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