Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

visible speech

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.26 in modern English

Syllables: vis-i-ble speech
IPA

25

Scrabble Score

13

Letters

3

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

name

An early phonetic alphabet, devised by Alexander Melville Bell in 1867, with the characters intended to suggest the articulations of the speech organs when uttering them.

Questions

What does visible speech mean?: An early phonetic alphabet, devised by Alexander Melville Bell in 1867, with the characters intended to suggest the articulations of the speech organs when uttering them.

How to pronounce visible speech

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