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spirantisation

spirantisation is the alternative spelling of spirantization.

Meaning of spirantization

Noun

spirantization (countable and uncountable, plural spirantizations)

  1. (uncountable) The process of a consonant becoming a spirant (fricative) sound.
  2. (countable) A particular instance of such change.

Forms of spirantisation

pluralspirantisations

Questions about spirantisation

What is spirantisation the alternative spelling of?
Spirantisation is the alternative spelling of spirantization.

Words near spirantisation in the dictionary

  1. spirant mutation
  2. spirant mutations
  3. spirantal
  4. spiranthy
  5. spirantic
  6. spirantisation
  7. spirantisations
  8. spirantization
  9. spirantizations
  10. spirantize
  11. spirantized

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Adapted from Wiktionary: spirantisation (page history and authors); spirantization (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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