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syllabic consonants

Syllables: syl·lab·ic con·so·nantsUK/sɪˌlæb.ɪk ˈkɒn.sə.nənts/US/sɪˌlæb.ɪk ˈkɔn.sə.nənts/

syllabic consonants is the plural of syllabic consonant.

Meaning of syllabic consonant

Noun

syllabic consonant (plural syllabic consonants)

  1. A consonant which either forms a syllable by itself or is the nucleus of a syllable.

Questions about syllabic consonants

What is syllabic consonants the plural of?
Syllabic consonants is the plural of syllabic consonant.
How do you pronounce syllabic consonants?
Syllabic consonants is pronounced /sɪˌlæb.ɪk ˈkɒn.sə.nənts/ (UK).

Words near syllabic consonants in the dictionary

  1. syllabic abbreviation
  2. syllabic abbreviations
  3. syllabic break
  4. syllabic breaks
  5. syllabic consonant
  6. syllabic consonants
  7. syllabic rhyme
  8. syllabic rhymes
  9. syllabical
  10. syllabically
  11. syllabicate

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Adapted from Wiktionary: syllabic consonants (page history and authors); syllabic consonant (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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