post-alveolar consonant
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.62 in modern English
28
Scrabble Score
21
Letters
7
Syllables
11
Unique Chars
Meaning
n
(phonetics) Any sound articulated with the tongue near or touching the back of the alveolar ridge.
Example Sentences
- "The sibilant postalveolars (i.e. fricatives and affricates) are sometimes called ‘hush consonants’ because they include the sound /ʃ/ of English ‘Shhh!’ (as distinguished from the ‘hiss’ consonant /s/, as in ‘Ssss!’)."