Definitions for schwas

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schwas schwa

Spelling: [shwah]

IPA: /ʃwɑ/

Schwas is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 66 anagrams from letters in schwas (achssw).

Definitions for schwas

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 schwas

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