Fricative

Definition: Fricative

Fricative

Adjective

1. Produced by forcing air through a constricted passage (as `f'. `s', `z', or `th' (in both `thin' and `then')).

Noun

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

Note: Fricative \Fric"a*tive\, adjective. [See Frication.]. (Websters 1913)

Synonyms: Fricative

Synonyms: sibilant (adj), fricative consonant (n), spirant (n). (additional references)

Crosswords: Fricative

English words defined with "fricative": affricate, affricate consonant, affricative ♦ fricative consonant ♦ hiss, hissing ♦ sibilation. (references)

"Fricative" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 75.00% of the time. "Fricative" is used about 16 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	75%	12	101,599
Adjective (general or positive)	25%	4	175,879
Total	100.00%	16	N/A

Expression using "fricative": fricative consonant. Additional references.
Hypenated Usage
	Ending with "fricative": pre-fricative.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Language		Translations for "fricative"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		fërkimore, bashkëtingëllore fërkimore (spirant). (various references)

Arabic		‏حرف إحتكاكي, ‏إحتكاكي (frictional, spirant). (various references)

Bulgarian		фрикативна съгласна, фрикативен. (various references)

Chinese		�"�音 , 摩�"�声. (various references)

Czech		frikativní, frikativa, třený. (various references)

Danish		frikativ, haemmelyd. (various references)

Dutch		fricatief, glijder (furniture glide, furniture slide, glide, slider). (various references)

Finnish		hankausäänne (spirant). (various references)

French		fricative, fricatif, continue, constrictif. (various references)

German		Reiblaut. (various references)

Hebrew		חוכך (hesitant, spirant), �"�'�" חוכך (spirant). (various references)

Hungarian		réshang (hiss, spirant), frikatíva. (various references)

Indonesian		frikatif, gesel. (various references)

Italian		fricativo, fricativa, continua (continuous, endless). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		摩�"�音 (fricative sound). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		まさつお�" (fricative sound). (various references)

Manx		screebagh (abrasive, frictional, scraping, scrapy, scratchy). (various references)

Pig Latin		icativefray

Portuguese		fricassé (hash), consoante fricativa (spirant). (various references)

Romanian		fricativ (spirant), consoanã fricativã (spirant). (various references)

Russian		фрикативный звук, фрикативный. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		frikativni, frikativ, strujni glas. (various references)

Spanish		fricativo, fricativa. (various references)

Swedish		frikativa, frikativ. (various references)

Thai		พยัญชนะที่มีเสียงเสีย�"แทรกจากฐานกร�"์ (ในวิชา� าษาศาสตร์), ซึ่งเกี่ยวกับเสียงเสีย�"แทรก. (various references)

Turkish		frikatif, sürtünmeli sessiz harf. (various references)

Ukrainian		фрикативний звук, фрикативний. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "fricative": fricatives. (additional references)
	Words ending with "fricative": affricative. (additional references)
	Words containing "fricative": affricatives. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Fricative" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: firative, frictive, frikarti. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Words rhyming with "fricative" (pronounced 'Fric"a*tive'): Abdicative, Abditive, Abirritative, Abjunctive, Abnegative, Abrogative, Absorptive, Abstractive, Accelerative, Accompletive, Accretive, Accumulative, Acervative, Acquisitive, Active, Adaptative, Additive, Adductive, Adjudicative, Administrative, Admirative, Admonitive, Adscriptive, Adumbrative, Affective, Affinitative, Affinitive, Afflictive, Afformative, Agglomerative, Agglutinative, Aggravative, Aggregative, Agitative, Alleviative, Alliterative, Altercative, Amalgamative, Amative, Ambulative, Ameliorative, Ampliative, Amplificative, Animative, Annihilative, Annotative, Annunciative, Anticipative, Aperitive, Appetitive. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-c-e-f-i-i-r-t-v"
	-1 letter: artifice.
	-2 letters: fictive.
	-3 letters: active, farcie, fiacre, fracti, iatric, trivia, viatic, vitric.
	-4 letters: afire, afrit, after, aiver, areic, avert, caret, carte, carve, cater, caver, cavie, ceria, citer, civet, civie, craft, crate, crave, erica, evict, facer, facet, farce, farci, feria, fiver, icier, irate, react, recta, recti, refit, retia, rivet, terai, trace, trave, triac, trice, vatic.
	Words containing the letters "a-c-e-f-i-i-r-t-v"
	+1 letter: fricatives.
	+2 letters: affricative.
	+3 letters: affricatives, refractivity, verification, vociferating, vociferation.
	+4 letters: configurative, verifications, versification, vociferations.
	+5 letters: antireflective, refractivities, revivification, versifications.
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