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Word entry · 8 letters

sonority

Best crossword clue

"Booming tone"

8 letters · collected on this word page

8 lettersPronunciation /səˈnɑɹɪti/Part of speech nounSorted inoorstyStarts with SEnds with Y1 clues
1S2O3N4O5R6I7T8Y

Definitions

  1. having the character of a loud deep sound; the quality of being resonant

Word origin

From sonor(ous) + -ity, from French sonorité, from Latin sonōritās.

Used in a sentence

  • Another quality that bothers me is Brendel's inconsistent sonority. The treble is hard and pingy; the midrange is weighed down with a booming bass.
  • It can be seen that vowels have the highest sonority of all phonemes in English, with low vowels being even more sonorous than high vowels.

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