Meaning and example
a consonant produced by stopping the flow of air at some point and suddenly releasing it
His stop consonants are too aspirated
Plain-English interpretation
A prevalence score of -0.380 places plosive in the very rare range on this site. In practical terms, the word was recognized by about 35.1% of people in the source dataset.
Related words
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Similar-prevalence words
ineluctableVery rare
- Known by
- 35%
impossible to avoid or evade
legerdemainVery rare
- Known by
- 35.3%
an illusory feat; considered magical by naive observers
caliginousVery rare
- Known by
- 34.5%
dark and misty and gloomy
prolixityVery rare
- Known by
- 33.9%
boring verbosity
enologyVery rare
- Known by
- 36.2%
the art of wine making
Source attribution
Brysbaert, M., Mandera, P., McCormick, S. F., & Keuleers, E. (2019). Word prevalence norms for 62,000 English lemmas. Behavior Research Methods, 51, 467-479.
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