Word.ws English Dictionary

semi-voiced

semi-voiced adjective: of consonants, formed by making a voiced consonant, but with the vocal folds closed.

Adjective

semi-voiced (not comparable)

  1. Of consonants, formed by making a voiced consonant, but with the vocal folds closed.

Origin of semi-voiced

From semi- + voiced.

Questions about semi-voiced

What does semi-voiced mean?
Semi-voiced means of consonants, formed by making a voiced consonant, but with the vocal folds closed.
What part of speech is semi-voiced?
Semi-voiced is an adjective.

Words near semi-voiced in the dictionary

  1. semi-uncial
  2. semi-uniform
  3. semi-uniforms
  4. semi-vegetarian
  5. semi-vegetarianism
  6. semi-voiced
  7. semi-vowel
  8. semi-weeklies
  9. semi-weekly
  10. semi-width
  11. semi-wild

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: semi-voiced (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.

Last updated:

Pronunciation audio from Wikimedia Commons, each file under its own free license: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-semi-voiced.wav.

Cite this entry: “semi-voiced.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/semi-voiced. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.