sonority

8 letters · noun · scores 2,200 in SpellHuntr

noun

having the character of a loud deep sound; the quality of being resonant

Sonority in a sentence

Another quality that bothers me is Brendel's inconsistent sonority. The treble is hard and pingy; the midrange is weighed down with a booming bass.

It can be seen that vowels have the highest sonority of all phonemes in English, with low vowels being even more sonorous than high vowels.

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