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short vowels

short vowels is the plural of short vowel.

Meaning of short vowel

Noun

short vowel (plural short vowels)

  1. In languages that distinguish vowel length, a vowel which is normally pronounced shorter than a long vowel.

Questions about short vowels

What is short vowels the plural of?
Short vowels is the plural of short vowel.

Words near short vowels in the dictionary

  1. short u
  2. short u's
  3. short ues
  4. short view
  5. short vowel
  6. short vowels
  7. short wave
  8. short waves
  9. short weight
  10. short whist
  11. short-acting

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