Unvoiced

Definition: Unvoiced

Unvoiced

Adjective

1. (linguistics) of speech sounds.

2. Not using the voice; "unvoiced thoughts"; "unvoiced consonants such as `p' and `k' and `s'.

3. Not made explicit; "the unexpressed terms of the agreement"; "things left unsaid"; "some kind of unspoken agreement"; "his action is clear but his reason remains unstated".

Date "unvoiced" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1895. (references)

Synonyms: Unvoiced

Synonyms: surd (adj), unexpressed (adj), unsaid (adj), unspoken (adj), unstated (adj), unuttered (adj), unverbalised (adj), unverbalized (adj), voiceless (adj). (additional references)

Antonyms: sonant (adj), voiced (adj). (additional references)

Crosswords: Unvoiced

Specialty definitions using "unvoiced": ORGAN-PIPE VOICER. (references)

"Unvoiced" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Unvoiced" is used about 13 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
Adjective (general or positive)	100%	13	97,576

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "unvoiced"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		i shurdhër (deaf, sepulchral), i pashprehur (ineffable, inexpressible, unsaid, unspeakable, unspoken). (various references)

Arabic		‏غير معبر عنه بالألفاظ, ‏صامت (dumb, mum, mute, noiseless, quiet, silenced, silent, speechless, still, surd, tacit, tight lipped, voiceless, whist, wordless). (various references)

Bulgarian		обеззвучен, неизразен (sneaking, unsaid), неизказан (ineffable, inexplicit, inexpressible, mental, silent, unsaid, unspeakable, unspoken, untold, unutterable), беззвучен (mute, noiseless, sharp, soundless, surd, toneless, voiceless). (various references)

Czech		neznìlý (voiceless), nevyslovený (implied, tacit, unmentioned, unsaid, unspoken). (various references)

Danish		ustemt. (various references)

Dutch		stemloos. (various references)

French		sourd, sans voix, non exprimé, muet, aphone. (various references)

German		stimmlos (voiceless). (various references)

Greek		άφωνοσ (mum, mute, silent, speechless, voiceless). (various references)

Hungarian		zöngétlen (voiceless). (various references)

Italian		senza voce (speechless), muto (blank, dumb, mute, silent, speechless, tongue tied, voiceless), inespresso, afono (toneless). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		無声 (noiseless, silent, voiceless). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		むせい (asexual, nocturnal emission, noiseless, silent, voiceless, wet dream). (various references)

Pig Latin		oicedunvay

Portuguese		não expresso, mudo (aphonic, dumb, mute, soundless, speechless, toneless, unsounded, voiceless, wordless). (various references)

Romanian		surd (deaf, dull, hidden, hollow, secret, sharp, smothered), neexprimat (speechless). (various references)

Russian		глухой (deaf, hollow, impervious, outlandish, surd, voiceless). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		bezvučan (soundless, voiceless). (various references)

Spanish		acallado (laid). (various references)

Swedish		tonlös (surd, toneless, voiceless), outtalad (inarticulate, unasked, unexpressed, unsaid, unspoken, voiceless). (various references)

Turkish		sessiz (close-tongued, dumb, hushed, mum, mute, muted, noiseless, nonviolent, non-violent, quiescent, quiet, reserved, reticent, silent, soundless, speechless, still, surd, tacit, taciturn, tuneless, voiceless, without a sound, wordless), söylenmemiş (undelivered, unsaid, unspoken, unspoken-to, untold), açıklanmamış (unaccounted for, undeclared, unexplained, unexpressed, unpublished, untold), ünsüz (consonant, surd). (various references)

Ukrainian		глухий (atonic, backwoods, deaf, noteless, obtuse, one horse, surd), невимовлений. (various references)

Vietnamese		không kêu (sound-damping, soundless), không b� y tỏ ra. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Misspellings
	"Unvoiced" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: unvoice. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "c-d-e-i-n-o-u-v"
	-1 letter: unvoice.
	-2 letters: codein, coined, induce, nevoid, novice, voiced.
	-3 letters: coden, coned, coude, coved, coven, covin, devon, douce, doven, dunce, envoi, indue, nudie, ounce, ovine, viced, video, vined, vodun, voice.
	-4 letters: cedi, cine, cion, code, coed, coin, cone, coni, cove, cued, deco, deni, dice, dine, dive, done, dove, duce, duci, dune, iced, icon, nevi, nice.
	Words containing the letters "c-d-e-i-n-o-u-v"
	+1 letter: conducive.
	+2 letters: conductive.
	+3 letters: uncontrived, unconvinced.
	+4 letters: nondeductive, noninductive, overclouding, overdiscount, undiscovered, unproductive.
	+5 letters: conduciveness, countervailed, nonconductive, noncultivated, nondiscursive, nonproductive, overcautioned, overdiscounts, overeducating, overeducation, overproducing.
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