bilabial
/baɪˈleɪ.bi.əl/adjective, noun
bilabial is an adjective meaning “Articulated with both lips” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled B-I-L-A-B-I-A-L, and it appears about once in every 25 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does bilabial mean?
adjective
- 1
Articulated with both lips.
noun
- 1
A speech sound articulated with both lips.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce bilabial?
- /baɪˈleɪ.bi.əl/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Flame,_not_lame-bilabial.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of bilabial
- bilabials plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is bilabial?
Bilabial appears about once in every 25 million words in written English, the 150,355th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Bilabial in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | bilabial |
| German | bilabial , Doppellippenlaut, Zweilippenlaut, Beidlippenlaut, Bilabial |
| Portuguese | bilabial |
| Spanish | bilabial |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does bilabial come from?
From bi- + labial.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).