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consonants
- Letters of the alphabet that stand for sounds often made with a closed or partially closed mouth: B, C, D, F, G, H, J, K, L, M, N, P, Q, R, S, T, V, W, X, Z, and sometimes Y (as in yellow ). ( Compare vowels .)
Example Sentences
Even to native English speakers, the transliteration of familiar words into an alphabet with imperfectly matched consonants â lacking, for example, a precise âFâ or âRâ sound â can be confusing.
Her characters would crash down on consonants, as though landing a plane in the midst of an engine blowout or stretch out vowels in defiance of several laws of physics.
Itâs hard to think about Sajak doing anything other than soliciting consonants and vowels or declaring a player âbankrupt,â but his storied career began long before âWheel of Fortune.â
They were prone to making simple mistakes, including basic addition errors and mistaking consonants for vowels, which led them to provide incorrect answers.
These cards set the players challenges such as "play a word containing at least three different consonants".
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