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affricatization

affricatization is the alternative form of affrication.

Meaning of affrication

Noun

affrication (countable and uncountable, plural affrications)

  1. (uncountable) Becoming an affricate sound.
  2. (countable) A particular instance of such change.

Forms of affricatization

pluralaffricatizations

Questions about affricatization

What is affricatization the alternative form of?
Affricatization is the alternative form of affrication.

Words near affricatization in the dictionary

  1. affrication
  2. affrications
  3. affricative
  4. affricatives
  5. affricativization
  6. affricatization
  7. affricatize
  8. affricatized
  9. affricatizes
  10. affricatizing
  11. affriction

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Adapted from Wiktionary: affricatization (page history and authors); affrication (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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