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English

Etymology

Borrowed into Middle English from Old French vouel (French voyelle), from Latin v?c?lis (“voiced”), a semantic loan of Koine Greek ?????? (ph?nêen). Doublet of vocal.

Pronunciation

• enPR: vou??l, IPA^(key): /?va?.?l/
• (also) enPR: voul, IPA^(key): /va?l/
• Rhymes: -a??l, -a?l

Noun

vowel (plural vowels)

1. (phonetics) A sound produced by the vocal cords with relatively little restriction of the oral cavity, forming the prominent sound of a syllable.
2. (orthography) A letter representing the sound of vowel; in English, the vowels are a, e, i, o, u, and sometimes y.

Antonyms

• (sound): consonant
• (letter): consonant

Derived terms

Related terms

• vocalic
• consonant
• liquid

See also

• vocalization

Placing of an element:

• prevocalic (occurring before a vowel)
• intervocalic (occurring between vowels)
• postvocalic (occurring after a vowel)

Types of vowels (phonetics):

• front, central, back
• rounded, unrounded
• close, near-close, close-mid, mid, open-mid, near-open, open

Translations

Verb

vowel (third-person singular simple present vowels, present participle vowelling or (US) voweling, simple past and past participle vowelled or (US) voweled)

1. (linguistics) To add vowel points to a consonantal script (e.g. niqqud in Hebrew or harakat in Arabic)

Translations

Synonyms

• vowelize
• vocalize

Anagrams

• wolve

English

Etymology

From Old French oel, owel, iwel, ivel, French égal, from Latin aequalis. Doublet of equal.

Adjective

owel (comparative more owel, superlative most owel)

1. (law, obsolete) equal

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Anagrams

• Loew, Lowe, lowe, wole