Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

vowel quantity

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.26 in modern English

Syllables
vow-el quan-ti-ty
IPA
31
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
4
Syllables
12
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A vowel’s duration of articulation; its length.

Countable; Uncountable

Usage

Inflected Forms

Questions

What does vowel quantity mean?
A vowel’s duration of articulation; its length.

How to pronounce vowel quantity

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