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Noun Concept
Categories: Sibilant consonants, Articles with short description, Manner of articulation
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sibilant  sibilant consonant  Groove spirant  Hissing consonant  Hissing sound
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A consonant characterized by a hissing sound (like s or sh) WordNet 3.0
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A consonant characterized by a hissing sound (like s or sh) WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet
Sibilants are fricative consonants of higher amplitude and pitch, made by directing a stream of air with the tongue towards the teeth. Wikipedia
A group of consonants that have a hissing or hushing sound Wikipedia Disambiguation
Fricative or affricate consonant, of higher amplitude and pitch, made by directing a stream of air with the tongue towards the sharp edge of the teeth, which are held close together Wikidata
A speech sound characterized by a hissing quality. OmegaWiki
A consonant having a hissing sound such as the 's' or 'sh' in 'sash' or 'surge'. Wiktionary
Phonetics: a hissing sound. Wiktionary (translation)
IS A
fricative consonant
HAS KIND
alveolar ejective fricative
voiced alveolar fricative
voiced palato‐alveolar sibilant
voiceless alveolo-palatal fricative
voiceless postalveolar fricative
+1 relations
HAS INSTANCE
voiceless alveolar affricate
DERIVATION
assibilate
assibilate
hiss
sibilate
sibilate
+1 relations
GREATER THAN
fricative consonant
USES
tooth
WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet
EN
sibilant, sibilant consonant
Wikipedia
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sibilant
Wikidata
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sibilant consonant
Wiktionary
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sibilant
OmegaWiki
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sibilant, sibilant consonant
Wikipedia Redirections
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Groove spirant, Hissing consonant, Hissing sound, hushing (linguistics), Hushing consonant, Hushing sound, Shibilant, sibilance, Sibilancies, Sibilancy, sibilant consonant, sibilant consonants, sibilant fricative, Sibilant sound, Sibilantly, sibilants, Silibant, Strident consonant, Strident consonants, stridents, Thibilant, Voiceless sibilant, Whistled fricative, whistled sibilant

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