consonants

Meaning of consonants

plural noun
  1. a basic speech sound in which the breath is at least partly obstructed and which can be combined with a vowel to form a syllable.
    fricatives are by far the largest group of English consonants

Middle English (in the sense ‘letter representing a consonant’): via Old French from Latin consonare ‘sound together’, from con- ‘with’ + sonare ‘to sound’ (from sonus ‘sound’).

Information about consonants

  • It is a name.
  • The singular form of consonants is: consonant.
  • Languages ​​in which consonants is used:

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Hyphenation of consonants

con-so-nants

  • It consists of 3 syllables and 10 chars.
  • consonants is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables

Words that rhyme with consonants

ants, fainaants, Corybants, absorbants, bants, corybants, disturbants, perturbants, turbants, turribants, alicants, antidesiccants, applicants, cants, communicants, contraindicants, cosecants, decants, dedicants, descants, desiccants, detoxicants, discants, exsecants, fabricants, implicants, incants, indicants, intoxicants, locants, lubricants, medicants, mendicants, noncommunicants, nonintoxicants, predicants, provocants, recants, reciprocants, scants, secants, significants, supplicants, toxicants, urticants, vesicants, Ascendants, abradants, antioxidants, appendants

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