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palatalizations

palatalizations is the plural of palatalization.

Meaning of palatalization

Noun

palatalization (countable and uncountable, plural palatalizations)

  1. (uncountable) The state or quality of being palatalized, of pronouncing a sound with the tongue against the palate of the mouth that normally is not.
    • The word "nature" is commonly pronounced with a palatalization of the letter t to sound like ch.
  2. (countable) An instance of pronunciation in which a sound is palatalized.

Questions about palatalizations

What is palatalizations the plural of?
Palatalizations is the plural of palatalization.

Words near palatalizations in the dictionary

  1. palatalism
  2. palatality
  3. palatalizable
  4. palatalization
  5. palatalizational
  6. palatalizations
  7. palatalize
  8. palatalized
  9. palatalizes
  10. palatalizing
  11. palatally

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Adapted from Wiktionary: palatalizations (page history and authors); palatalization (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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