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R-coloured vowels

R-coloured vowels is the plural 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].

Questions about R-coloured vowels

What is R-coloured vowels the plural of?
R-coloured vowels is the plural of R-coloured vowel.

Words near R-coloured vowels in the dictionary

  1. R-color
  2. R-colored vowel
  3. R-colored vowels
  4. R-colour
  5. R-coloured vowel
  6. R-coloured vowels
  7. R-CPD
  8. R-Day
  9. r-dropping
  10. R-EPOCH
  11. R-expression

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Adapted from Wiktionary: R-coloured vowels (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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