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prevoicing

prevoicing is the present participle and gerund of prevoice.

Meaning of prevoice

Verb

prevoice (third-person singular simple present prevoices, present participle prevoicing, simple past and past participle prevoiced)

  1. To voice before the onset of a consonant or beginning with the onset but ending before its release.

Noun

prevoicing (countable and uncountable, plural prevoicings)

  1. An instance of a consonant being prevoiced.

Forms of prevoicing

pluralprevoicings

Questions about prevoicing

What does prevoicing mean?
Prevoicing means an instance of a consonant being prevoiced.
What is prevoicing the present participle and gerund of?
Prevoicing is the present participle and gerund of prevoice.
What part of speech is prevoicing?
Prevoicing is a noun.
What is the plural of prevoicing?
The plural of prevoicing is prevoicings.

Words near prevoicing in the dictionary

  1. prevocationally
  2. prevoice
  3. prevoiced
  4. prevoiceless
  5. prevoices
  6. prevoicing
  7. prevoicings
  8. prevoid
  9. prevolitional
  10. prevolitionally
  11. prevomer

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Adapted from Wiktionary: prevoicing (page history and authors); prevoice (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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