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| 99% | 7 | Exact Match! | ||
noun • a consonant produced by stopping the flow of air at some point and suddenly releasing it | ||||
| 45% | 9 | It describes the shift from voiceless stops to fricatives, and voiced stops to voiceless stops | ||
noun • a sound law relating German consonants and consonants in other Indo-European languages | ||||
| 32% | 12 | The change of a non-sibilant consonant to a sibilant consonant. | ||
noun • the development of a consonant phoneme into a sibilant • pronunciation with a sibilant (hissing or whistling) sound | ||||
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PLOSIVE which was last seen in the New York Times crossword.
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PLOSIVE
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