Definitions for Vowel

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Vowel vow·el

Spelling: [vou-uh l]

IPA: /ˈvaʊ əl/

Vowel is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 47 anagrams from letters in Vowel (elovw).

Definitions for Vowel

noun

1. Phonetics. (in English articulation) a speech sound produced without occluding, diverting, or obstructing the flow of air from the lungs (opposed to consonant). (in a syllable) the sound of greatest sonority, as i in grill. Compare consonant (def 1b). (in linguistic function) a concept empirically determined as a phonological element in structural contrast with consonant, as the (ē) of be (bē), we (wē), and yeast (yēst).
2. a letter representing or usually representing a vowel, as, in English, a, e, i, o, u, and sometimes w and y.

adjective

1. of or relating to a vowel.

Origin of Vowel

1275-1325; Middle English Old French vowel Latin vōcālis vocal

Examples for Vowel

A vowel is like an olian harp; it makes a full and perfect sound of itself.

The trick of adding a vowel to sound words is not unpleasing to the ear.

The Thought is simple and massy enough: but where is a vowel?

If the verb following the relative begins with a vowel, a is often omitted.

No attempt has been made to indicate these differences of vowel sound.

Meso: middle: as prefix, drops the o when stem begins with a vowel.

The vowel is elided in some cases, and coalesces with another vowel in others.

In the first and second the consonant is followed by a vowel.

A final e mute was often used to lengthen a vowel, as in English.

Two letters, S and O, a sibilant and a vowel, of which no further explanation can be given.