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plosives

plosives is the plural of plosive.

Meaning of plosive

Noun

plosive (plural plosives)

  1. A speech sound produced by opening a closed vocal tract.
    Synonyms:
    stop, occlusive

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Questions about plosives

What is plosives the plural of?
Plosives is the plural of plosive.

Words near plosives in the dictionary

  1. plosion
  2. plosions
  3. plosive
  4. plosively
  5. plosiveness
  6. plosives
  7. plosivisation
  8. plosivity
  9. plosivization
  10. PLOSL
  11. plosophoric

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Adapted from Wiktionary: plosives (page history and authors); plosive (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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