Explore Vowel through 10+ example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning and related words like phone or sound. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Vowel meaning
- A sound produced by the vocal cords with relatively little restriction of the oral cavity, forming the prominent sound of a syllable.
- A letter or diacritic representing the sound of a vowel; in English, the vowels are a, e, i, o, u, w (rarely), y (sometimes).
Using Vowel
- The main meaning on this page is: A sound produced by the vocal cords with relatively little restriction of the oral cavity, forming the prominent sound of a syllable. | A letter or diacritic representing the sound of a vowel; in English, the vowels are a, e, i, o, u, w (rarely), y (sometimes).
- Useful related words include: vowel sound, phone, speech sound, sound.
- In the example corpus, vowel often appears in combinations such as: the vowel, vowel in, vowel and.
Context around Vowel
- Average sentence length in these examples: 29.3 words
- Position in the sentence: 7 start, 13 middle, 0 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Vowel
- In this selection, "vowel" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 29.3 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, short, long, front, followed, harmony and suffixes stand out and add context to how "vowel" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a short vowel followed by and a back vowel in the. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "vowel" sits close to words such as ahmad, crane and embarrassing, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with vowel
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
An oral vowel is a vowel in which all air escapes through the mouth. (14 words)
Consonants The consonants are typical for Eastern Kru: Syllables may be vowel only, consonant-vowel, or consonant- /ɺ/ -vowel. (19 words)
When consonants combine with other vowel signs, the vowel part is indicated orthographically using signs known as vowel “maatras”. (19 words)
The sound of a preceding vowel, usually at the end of one word, merges in a rapid transition to the sound of the following vowel, particularly at the start of another word, giving the second vowel greater prominence in speech. (40 words)
He wrote long vowels according to their position in the word – a short vowel followed by h for a radical vowel, a short vowel in the suffix and vowel with a diacritic mark in the ending indicating two accents. (39 words)
Although some words like necessary are almost universally pronounced with the full vowel, older generations of Australians are relatively likely to pronounce these affixes with a schwa while younger generations are relatively likely to use a full vowel. (38 words)
Example sentences (20)
Breaking seeAlso Vowel breaking, or fracture, caused a front vowel to be split into a semivowel-vowel sequence before a back vowel in the following syllable.
He wrote long vowels according to their position in the word – a short vowel followed by h for a radical vowel, a short vowel in the suffix and vowel with a diacritic mark in the ending indicating two accents.
As in many Mon–Khmer languages, Mon uses a vowel-phonation or vowel- register system in which the quality of voice in pronouncing the vowel is phonemic.
Both katakana and hiragana usually spell native long vowels with the addition of a second vowel kana, but katakana uses a vowel extender mark, called a chōonpu ("long vowel mark"), in foreign loanwords.
Consonants The consonants are typical for Eastern Kru: Syllables may be vowel only, consonant-vowel, or consonant- /ɺ/ -vowel.
Initials are initial consonants, while finals are all possible combinations of medials ( semivowels coming before the vowel), the nucleus vowel, and coda (final vowel or consonant).
Instead, according to them, vowel harmony originated in each daughter branch as assimilation of the vowel in the first syllable to the vowel in the second syllable (which was usually modified or lost later).
The basic rule is that words including at least one back vowel get back vowel suffixes (karba – in(to) the arm), while words excluding back vowels get front vowel suffixes (kézbe – in(to) the hand).
The sound of a preceding vowel, usually at the end of one word, merges in a rapid transition to the sound of the following vowel, particularly at the start of another word, giving the second vowel greater prominence in speech.
The word vowel comes from the Latin word vocalis, meaning "vocal" ("relating to voice"). citation In English, the word vowel is commonly used to mean both vowel sounds and the written symbols that represent them.
Thus, a syllable is heavy if it ends in a long vowel or diphthong, a short vowel and a consonant, a long vowel and a consonant, or a diphthong and a consonant.
Vowels Telugu features a form of vowel harmony wherein the second vowel in disyllabic noun and adjective roots alters according to whether the first vowel is tense or lax.
When consonants combine with other vowel signs, the vowel part is indicated orthographically using signs known as vowel “maatras”.
For the third day in a row, today’s Wordle has just one vowel and for the third day in a row, that vowel is ‘I’.
A long syllable contains either a long vowel or a short vowel followed by a consonant as is the case in the word maktūbun which syllabifies as mak-tū-bun.
Also, both clauses are built with the vowel a in the first and last words, but the vowel i in the one syllable central word.
Also, the particle a is placed before the noun unless it begins with a vowel (or f followed immediately by a vowel, which becomes silent when lenited).
Although some words like necessary are almost universally pronounced with the full vowel, older generations of Australians are relatively likely to pronounce these affixes with a schwa while younger generations are relatively likely to use a full vowel.
An oral vowel is a vowel in which all air escapes through the mouth.
But if no letter is written to represent a triphthong's middle (non-semi-vowel) sound (as in ui or iu), then the tone marker goes on the final (second) vowel letter.
Common combinations with vowel
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- the vowel 42×
- vowel in 23×
- vowel and 19×
- long vowel 17×
- with vowel 17×
- vowel harmony 14×
- vowel is 12×
- vowel or 12×
- vowel sound 12×
- of vowel 9×