voyelle

Definitions of voyelle
  1. noun
    a speech sound made with the vocal tract open
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    antonyms:
    consonne
    a speech sound that is not a vowel
    types:
    diphtongue
    a vowel sound that starts near the articulatory position for one vowel and moves toward the position for another
    voyelle thématique
    a vowel that ends a stem and precedes an inflection
    type of:
    mot, phonème
    (phonetics) an individual sound unit of speech without concern as to whether or not it is a phoneme of some language
  2. noun
    a letter of the alphabet standing for a spoken vowel
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    type of:
    lettre
    the conventional characters of the alphabet used to represent speech
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