consonant
Meaning of consonant
- 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
- denoting or relating to a consonant.
a consonant phoneme
- in agreement or harmony with.
the findings are consonant with other research
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 consonant
- The plural form of consonant is: consonants.
- Languages in which consonant is used:
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CatalanHyphenation of consonant
con-so-nant
- It consists of 3 syllables and 9 chars.
- consonant is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables
consonant synonyms
Meaning harmonic:
harmonic, harmonical, harmonized
Meaning accordant:
accordant, agreeable, conformable, concordant
Translation of consonant
- French: consonne
- German: Konsonant, Mitlaut
- Spanish: consonante
- Italian: consonante
- Portuguese: consoante
Words that rhyme with consonant
nant, emanant, misdemeanant, nonemanant, Covenant, D'Avenant, Davenant, Lieutenant, appurtenant, avenant, cotenant, covenant, detenant, discovenant, distenant, entreprenant, intervenant, lieutenant, moyenant, nontenant, oxygenant, prevenant, rejuvenant, remenant, retenant, revenant, setenant, sublieutenant, subtenant, sustenant, tenant, tertenant, uncovenant, underlieutenant, undertenant, untenant, Premalignant, benignant, coregnant, designant, impregnant, indignant, malignant, nonmalignant, nonpregnant, omnipregnant, oppugnant, overpregnant, poignant, pregnant