Definitions for schwa

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Spelling: [shwah]

IPA: /ʃwɑ/

Schwa is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 52 anagrams from letters in schwa (achsw).

Definitions for schwa

noun

1. the mid-central, neutral vowel sound typically occurring in unstressed syllables in English, however spelled, as the sound of a in alone and sofa, e in system, i in easily, o in gallop, u in circus.
2. the phonetic symbol ə, used to represent this sound.

Origin of schwa

1890-95; German Hebrew shəwā, name of a diacritic marking schwa or no vowel