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hypernasal

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
hy-per-nasal
IPA
18
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
9
Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Excessively nasal.

Etymology

From hyper- + nasal.

Word Breakdown

Inflected Forms

more hypernasal (comparative) most hypernasal (superlative)

Frequently Paired Words

hypernasality

Rhymes With

endonasal oralnasal hyponasal transnasal inferonasal superonasal palpebronasal binasal bucconasal extranasal dorsonasal ventronasal

Questions

What does hypernasal mean?
Excessively nasal.
Where does hypernasal come from?
From hyper- + nasal.

How to pronounce hypernasal

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