labiovelar
adjective, noun
labiovelar is an adjective meaning “co-articulated at the velum and the lips” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled L-A-B-I-O-V-E-L-A-R, and it appears about once in every 81 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does labiovelar mean?
adjective
- 1
co-articulated at the velum and the lips
noun
- 1
A labiovelar sound.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce labiovelar?
- US
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Flame,_not_lame-labiovelar.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of labiovelar
- labio-velar
- labiovelars plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is labiovelar?
Labiovelar appears about once in every 81 million words in written English, the 286,585th 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).
Labiovelar in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense a velar sound articulated with lip-rounding:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | labiovélaire |
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 labiovelar come from?
From labio- + velar.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).