Word.ws English Dictionary

pre-fortis

pre-fortis adjective: immediately preceding a fortis consonant.

Adjective

pre-fortis (not comparable)

  1. Immediately preceding a fortis consonant.
    • This pre-fortis shortening is most obvious in stressed monosyllables (i.e. single-syllable words) and is termed pre-fortis clipping. […] Listen to these sets of English words. Notice how pre-fortis clipping shortens the vowels.2013, Beverley Collins, Inger M. Mees, Practical Phonetics and Phonology: A Resource Book for Students

Origin of pre-fortis

From pre- + fortis.

Questions about pre-fortis

What does pre-fortis mean?
Pre-fortis means immediately preceding a fortis consonant.
What part of speech is pre-fortis?
Pre-fortis is an adjective.

Words near pre-fortis in the dictionary

  1. pre-flops
  2. pre-form
  3. pre-formed
  4. pre-forming
  5. pre-forms
  6. pre-fortis
  7. pre-furlough
  8. pre-Furman
  9. pre-game
  10. pre-games
  11. pre-gaming

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: pre-fortis (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “pre-fortis.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/pre-fortis. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.