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reduced vowels

reduced vowels is the plural of reduced vowel.

Meaning of reduced vowel

Noun

reduced vowel (plural reduced vowels)

  1. a vowel that occurs only, or at least disproportionately often, in unstressed syllables in a given language; usually one that is intermediate in both height and frontness/backness
    • The schwa is a typical reduced vowel, though it can also be a full vowel in some languages.

Questions about reduced vowels

What is reduced vowels the plural of?
Reduced vowels is the plural of reduced vowel.

Words near reduced vowels in the dictionary

  1. reduced row echelon form
  2. reduced row echelon forms
  3. reduced someone to tears
  4. reduced time
  5. reduced vowel
  6. reduced vowels
  7. reduced word
  8. reduced words
  9. reduced-fat milk
  10. reducedness
  11. reducement

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Adapted from Wiktionary: reduced vowels (page history and authors); reduced 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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