vowel

vowel - English

Pronunciation

  • enPR: vouʹəl, IPA: /ˈvaʊ.əl/
  • (also) enPR: voul, IPA: /vaʊl/

Noun

vowel (plural vowels)

  1. (phonetics) A sound produced by the vocal cords with relatively little restriction of the oral cavity, forming the prominent sound of a syllable.
    • In Welsh, the w usually represents a vowel.
  2. (orthography) A letter representing the sound of vowel; in English, the vowels are a, e, i, o, u, and y.
    • Facetious is spelled with five vowels in alphabetical order.

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vowel (third-person singular simple present vowels, present participle vowelling or (US) voweling, simple past and past participle vowelled or (US) voweled)

  1. (linguistics) To add vowel points to a consonantal script (e.g. niqqud in Hebrew or harakat in Arabic).

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