Explore Affricate through 7 example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning and related words like obstruent. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Affricate meaning
A single speech sound produced combining a plosive and a fricative.
Synonyms of Affricate
Using Affricate
- The main meaning on this page is: A single speech sound produced combining a plosive and a fricative.
- Useful related words include: affricate consonant, affricative, obstruent.
- In the example corpus, affricate often appears in combinations such as: or affricate, affricate in.
Context around Affricate
- Average sentence length in these examples: 25.7 words
- Position in the sentence: 2 start, 3 middle, 2 end
- Sentence types: 7 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Affricate
- In this selection, "affricate" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 25.7 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, aspirated, alveolar and central stand out and add context to how "affricate" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include doubled aspirated affricate has a and fricative or affricate in place. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "affricate" sits close to words such as aad, aadhar and aaro, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with affricate
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Clicks may be oral or nasal, stop or affricate, central or lateral, voiced or voiceless. (15 words)
Consonants The consonant system is more complicated, and its characteristic features are series of affricate and palatal consonants. (18 words)
In the westernmost parts of the Basque country, only the apical s and the alveolar affricate tz are used. (19 words)
Despite this variation, there are some common characteristics to nearly all of the dialects of New Latin, for instance: * The use of a sibilant fricative or affricate in place of a stop for the letters c and sometimes g, when preceding a front vowel. (44 words)
Tsan is a letter of the Greek alphabet occurring only in Arcadia, shaped like Cyrillic И ; it represents an affricate that developed from labiovelars in context where they became t in other dialects. (33 words)
The letter t corresponds to the affricate /t͡ʃ/ in some words as a result of yod-coalescence (for example, in words ending in "-ture", such as future). (28 words)
Example sentences (7)
A doubled aspirated affricate has a longer hold in the stop portion and then has a release consisting of the fricative and aspiration.
Clicks may be oral or nasal, stop or affricate, central or lateral, voiced or voiceless.
Consonants The consonant system is more complicated, and its characteristic features are series of affricate and palatal consonants.
Despite this variation, there are some common characteristics to nearly all of the dialects of New Latin, for instance: * The use of a sibilant fricative or affricate in place of a stop for the letters c and sometimes g, when preceding a front vowel.
In the westernmost parts of the Basque country, only the apical s and the alveolar affricate tz are used.
The letter t corresponds to the affricate /t͡ʃ/ in some words as a result of yod-coalescence (for example, in words ending in "-ture", such as future).
Tsan is a letter of the Greek alphabet occurring only in Arcadia, shaped like Cyrillic И ; it represents an affricate that developed from labiovelars in context where they became t in other dialects.
Common combinations with affricate
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- or affricate 2×
- affricate in 2×