Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

nasal-ingressive

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.26 in modern English

Syllables: nasal-in-gres-sive
IPA

19

Scrabble Score

15

Letters

4

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Uttered by drawing air inward through the nose.

noun

A speech sound in which the air stream is created by drawing air in through the nose.

Etymology

nasal + ingressive

Inflected Forms

more nasal-ingressive (comparative) most nasal-ingressive (superlative) nasal-ingressives (plural)

Questions

What does nasal-ingressive mean?: Uttered by drawing air inward through the nose.
Where does nasal-ingressive come from?: nasal + ingressive

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