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R-colored vowel

R-colored vowel is the alternative spelling of R-coloured vowel.

Meaning of R-coloured vowel

Noun

R-coloured vowel (plural R-coloured vowels)

  1. A vowel modified so that the frequency of its third formant is lowered.
    • [ɚ] is an R-coloured vowel; its non-rhotacised form is [ə].

Forms of R-colored vowel

pluralR-colored vowels

Questions about R-colored vowel

What is R-colored vowel the alternative spelling of?
R-colored vowel is the alternative spelling of R-coloured vowel.

Words near R-colored vowel in the dictionary

  1. r-bomb
  2. r-bombed
  3. r-bombing
  4. r-bombs
  5. R-color
  6. R-colored vowel
  7. R-colored vowels
  8. R-colour
  9. R-coloured vowel
  10. R-coloured vowels
  11. R-CPD

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Adapted from Wiktionary: R-colored vowel (page history and authors); R-coloured vowel (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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