Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

front yer

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.35 in modern English

Syllables: fron-t y-er
IPA

14

Scrabble Score

8

Letters

3

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

n

The Cyrillic letter Ь/ь, which in Old Church Slavonic represented a short (or ‘reduced’) front vowel, and in modern languages serves to denote a soft (palatalized) consonant.

Example Sentences

"The yers in weak position were lost, although not in some instances before palatalizing the preceeding consonant by the front yer b."

Synonyms

soft sign

Questions

What does front yer mean?: The Cyrillic letter Ь/ь, which in Old Church Slavonic represented a short (or ‘reduced’) front vowel, and in modern languages serves to denote a soft (palatalized) consonant.

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