Fricative Consonant

Definition: Fricative Consonant

Fricative Consonant

Noun

1. A continuant consonant produced by breath moving against a narrowing of the vocal tract.

Specialty Definition: Fricative consonant

Fricative consonants are produced by air flowing through a narrow channel made by placing two articulating organs close together (e.g. the tip of the tongue and the upper teeth, as in the pronunciation of English initial "th" in thick, or the back of the tongue and the soft palate, as in the case of German [x], the final consonant of Bach). Turbulent airflow produces a characteristic noise called "friction". Fricatives may be voiceless or voiced (see phonation).

List of fricatives

[ɸ] voiceless bilabial fricative
[β] voiced
[f] voiceless labiodental fricative
[v] voiced
[θ] voiceless dental fricative
[ð] voiced
[s] voiceless alveolar fricative
[z] voiced
[ʃ] voiceless postalveolar fricative
[ʒ] voiced
[ʂ] voiceless retroflex fricative
[ʐ] voiced
[ç] voiceless palatal fricative
[ʝ] voiced
[x] voiceless velar fricative
[ɣ] voiced
[χ] voiceless uvular fricative
[ʁ] voiced
[ħ] voiceless pharyngeal fricative
[ʕ] voiced
[h] voiceless glottal fricative
[ɦ] voiced

English has the following fricatives:

[f], [s] as in sit, [S] ("sh") as in show and [T] ("th") as in thick (voiceless)

[v], [z], [Z] ("zh") as in pleasure, [D] (the other "th") as in that (voiced)

The glottal approximant [h] is also sometimes described as a fricative.

See also: phonetics, approximant stop, affricate

Anagrams: Fricative Consonant

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-a-c-c-e-f-i-i-n-n-n-o-o-r-s-t-t-v"
	-2 letters: anticonservation.
	-4 letters: concatenations, concentrations, contraventions, fractionations, revaccinations.
	-5 letters: coacervations, concatenation, concentration, consternation, contraoctaves, contravention, fractionation, reactivations, reconvictions, revaccination, vociferations.
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Alternative Orthography: Fricative Consonant

Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

46 72 69 63 61 74 69 76 65 43 6F 6E 73 6F 6E 61 6E 74

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000110 01110010 01101001 01100011 01100001 01110100 01101001 01110110 01100101 00100000 01000011 01101111 01101110 01110011 01101111 01101110 01100001 01101110 01110100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#70 &#114 &#105 &#99 &#97 &#116 &#105 &#118 &#101 &#32 &#67 &#111 &#110 &#115 &#111 &#110 &#97 &#110 &#116

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0046 0072 0069 0063 0061 0074 0069 0076 0065 0043 006F 006E 0073 006F 006E 0061 006E 0074

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

Fricative Consonant

Definition: Fricative Consonant