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Vocalic

Definitions: Vocalic

Vocalic

Adjective

1. Being or containing or characterized by vowels; "vocalic sounds"; "the Gaelic language being uncommonly vocalic"- Walter Scott.

2. Relating to or associated with or containing a vowel; "vocalic segments"; "the vocalic ablaut".

3. (phonology) of liquids and nasals.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "vocalic" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1814. (references)

Etymology: Vocalic \Vo*cal"ic\, adjective. [Latin expression vocalis (sc. littera) vowel. See Vocal,]. (Websters 1913)

Synonym: Vocalic

Synonym: syllabic (adj). (additional references)
Antonym: consonantal (adj). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Vocalic

English words defined with "vocalic": Vocalism, Vocality. (references)
Non-English Usage: "Vocalic" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses.

Romanian (vocalic).

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Commercial Usage: Vocalic

DomainTitle

Books

  • Old Portuguese Vocalic Finals, Phonology and Orthography of Accented -Ou, -Eu, -Iu, and -Ao, -Eo, -Io (Ld Ser.;No.44) (reference)

  • Vowel undersong : studies of vocalic timbre and chroneme patterning in German lyric poetry (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Expressions: Vocalic

Hypenated Usage

Ending with "vocalic": post-vocalic, pre-vocalic.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Vocalic

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

  r vocalic

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Vocalic

Language Translations for "vocalic"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

zanor (phonic, sonic, vocal). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏مؤلف من حروف علة, ‏على (across, at, below, causal, exalt, in, lift, onto, to, upon). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

гласен (vocal), богат с гласни. (various references)

   

Czech

  

samohláskový (vowel). (various references)

   

French

  

vocalique (vowel). (various references)

   

German

  

vokalisch. (various references)

   

Greek 

  

φωνήεντων. (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

magánhangzóban bõvelkedõ, hangzó (acoustic, acoustical, sonant, soniferous, sonorous, sounding, vocal). (various references)

   

Italian

  

vocalico (vowel). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

母音性 . (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

ぼい"せい. (various references)

   

Manx

  

gooagh (loquacious, sonant, vocal, voiced, wordy), coraagh (vocal, voiced), breeocklagh. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ocalicvay

   

Portuguese

  

vogal (vowel), vocálico (phone, vocal). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

vocalic. (various references)

   

Russian 

  

гласный звук (vowel), гласный (public). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

vokalan (vocal), samoglasnički. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

vocálico. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

sesli harfi çok olan, sesli harf ile ilgili. (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

голосний (deep-mouthed, vowel), вокальний. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Vocalic

Derivations

Words beginning with "vocalic": vocalically, vocalics. (additional references)

Words ending with "vocalic": intervocalic, postvocalic, prevocalic. (additional references)

Words containing "vocalic": intervocalically. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Vocalic" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: vassalic, vocale, vocalis, vocanic. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Vocalic"

Words rhyming with "vocalic" (pronounced 'Vo*cal"ic'): Abdominothoracic, Abietic, Abietinic, Abiogenetic, Ablastemic, Abrahamic, Acerbic, Aceric, Acetonic, Achromatic, Achronic, Acidic, Acidific, Aclinic, Acologic, Acopic, Acroatic, Acrobatic, Acrocephalic, Acromonogrammatic, Acrotic, Acrylic, Actinic, Actinolitic, Actinophonic, Adelocodonic, Adenographic, Adenotomic, Adiabatic, Adiactinic, Adipic, Adipolytic, Adonic, Adriatic, Adynamic, AEolotropic, Aerobiotic, Aerodynamic, Aerolitic, AEsthesodic, Agamic, Agamogenetic, Agenesic, Agnatic, Agonic, Agonothetic, Agraphic, Agrypnotic, Albinotic, Alcaic. (additional references)

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Anagrams: Vocalic

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-c-i-l-o-v"

-1 letter: calico.

-2 letters: cavil, clavi, colic, viola, vocal, voila.

-3 letters: calo, ciao, coal, coca, coil, cola, laic, loca, loci, oval, vail, vial, viol.

-4 letters: ail, avo, col, lac, lav, oca, oil, ova, vac, via.

-5 letters: ai, al, la, li, lo.

 Words containing the letters "a-c-c-i-l-o-v"
 

+1 letter: vocalics, volcanic.

 

+2 letters: acyclovir, volcanics.

 

+3 letters: acyclovirs, clavichord, prevocalic, varicocele.

 

+4 letters: clavichords, cocultivate, conceivable, conceivably, covalencies, nonvolcanic, postvocalic, varicoceles, vocalically, volcanicity.

 

+5 letters: clairvoyance, cocultivated, cocultivates, concanavalin, conciliative, conjunctival, convalescing, convectional, intervocalic, overcritical, postvaccinal, slavocracies, viscoelastic, volcanically, volcanologic.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Vocalic


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

56 6F 63 61 6C 69 63

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

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

...-    ---    -.-.    .-    .-..    ..    -.-.

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

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

01010110 01101111 01100011 01100001 01101100 01101001 01100011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#86 &#111 &#99 &#97 &#108 &#105 &#99

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0056 006F 0063 0061 006C 0069 0063

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

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

56816967787569

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Expressions
6. Expressions: Internet
7. Translations: Modern
8. Derivations
9. Rhymes
10. Anagrams
11. Orthography
12. Bibliography


  

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