velopharyngeal
adjective, noun
velopharyngeal is an adjective meaning “Articulated at the velopharynx. (Those with cleft palate produce such sounds instead of standard sibilants.)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled V-E-L-O-P-H-A-R-Y-N-G-E-A-L, and it appears about once in every 69 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does velopharyngeal mean?
adjective
- 1
Articulated at the velopharynx. (Those with cleft palate produce such sounds instead of standard sibilants.)
noun
- 1
A sound articulated at the velopharynx.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of velopharyngeal
- more velopharyngeal comparative
- most velopharyngeal superlative
- velopharyngeals plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is velopharyngeal?
Velopharyngeal appears about once in every 69 million words in written English, the 262,293rd 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).