Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

illabial

/ɪˈleɪbi.əl/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: il-l-abi-al
IPA: /ɪˈleɪbi.əl/

10

Scrabble Score

8

Letters

4

Syllables

4

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Not labial; unrounded or unlabialized.

Example Sentences

"Lazicius identifies the second part of this interjection with the long high open phoneme y· (as occurring in fy· 'grass'). This interpretation is certainly incorrect since this interjectional ɯ is illabial, whereas y is rounded."
"More refined analyses show that there are differences in the misperception of certain vowels between children and adults. For example, illabial /e:/ tends to be confused with labial /0:/ in adults' perception..."
"Newer studies do not offer any solution to the problem. They are even less informative in that they usually just mention the existence of rare labial variants and the quantitative predominance of illabial ones."

Etymology

From il- + labial.

Regional Pronunciation

American English: /ɪˈleɪbi.əl/
British English: /ɪˈleɪbi.əl/

Derived Forms

illabiality

Rhymes With

dentolabial endolabial exolabial apicolabial orolabial interlabial anterolabial posterolabial ventrolabial maxillolabial superlabial basolabial

Questions

How do you pronounce illabial?: The recorded pronunciation is /ɪˈleɪbi.əl/.
What does illabial mean?: Not labial; unrounded or unlabialized.
Where does illabial come from?: From il- + labial.

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