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pre-voiceless

pre-voiceless is the alternative form of prevoiceless.

Meaning of prevoiceless

Adjective

prevoiceless (not comparable)

  1. Before a voiceless sound.
    • For instance, prevoiceless /ay/-raising could be historical residue of the Great Vowel Shift, whereby /ay/ used to be uniformly realized as [əi], but lowered to [ai] except before voiceless consonants.2016 June, Josef Fruehwald, “The early influence of phonology on a phonetic change”, in Language, volume 92, number 2, →DOI, page 381

Questions about pre-voiceless

What is pre-voiceless the alternative form of?
Pre-voiceless is the alternative form of prevoiceless.

Words near pre-voiceless in the dictionary

  1. Pre-Us
  2. pre-vaccine
  3. pre-viewed
  4. pre-vis
  5. pre-voice
  6. pre-voiceless
  7. pre-war
  8. pre-wedding
  9. pre-workout
  10. pre-workouts
  11. preabdomen

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Adapted from Wiktionary: pre-voiceless (page history and authors); prevoiceless (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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