Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

tone-bearing unit

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.98 in modern English

Syllables: tone-bear-ing u-nit
IPA

18

Scrabble Score

15

Letters

4

Syllables

10

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

In autosegmental phonology, a segment, usually a syllable nucleus, which can be associated with a tone.

Inflected Forms

tone-bearing units (plural) TBU (alternative, initialism)

Questions

What does tone-bearing unit mean?: In autosegmental phonology, a segment, usually a syllable nucleus, which can be associated with a tone.

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