Spirant is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.
You can make 308 anagrams from letters in spirant (ainprst).
1865-70; Latin spīrant- (stem of spīrāns, present participle of spīrāre to breathe); see spirit, -ant
When the lips are not tightly closed the sound produced is not a stop, but a spirant like the English w.
spirant, spī′rant, n. a consonant which is fricative or continuable—opp.
spirant, v like the ou in French oui, but later approximating to the w heard in some parts of Germany, Ed.
In twien b 210 from twiga the spirant has disappeared, as in monie b 168.