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consonants

consonants is the plural of consonant.

Meaning of consonant

Noun

consonant (plural consonants)

  1. A sound that results from the passage of air through restrictions of the oral cavity; any sound that is not the dominant sound of a syllable, the dominant sound generally being a vowel.
  2. A letter representing the sound of a consonant.
    • Thus, when he drew up instructions in lawyer language, he expressed the important words by an initial, a medial, or a final consonant, and made scratches for all the words between; his clerks, however, understood him very well.1892, Walter Besant, “Prologue: Who is Edmund Gray?”, in The Ivory Gate […], New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], →OCLC

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Phrases with consonants

Questions about consonants

What is consonants the plural of?
Consonants is the plural of consonant.

Words near consonants in the dictionary

  1. consonantizes
  2. consonantizing
  3. consonantless
  4. consonantly
  5. consonantness
  6. consonants
  7. consonous
  8. consoo-house
  9. consoo-houses
  10. consoom
  11. consoomed

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Adapted from Wiktionary: consonants (page history and authors); consonant (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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