nasal
adjective / noun
Meaning
- adjectiveOf or pertaining to the nose or to the nasion.
- nounA medicine that operates through the nose; an errhine.
- adjectiveHaving a sound imparted by means of the nose; and specifically, made by lowering the soft palate, in some cases with closure of the oral passage, the voice thus issuing (wholly or partially) through the nose, as in the consonants m, n, ng.
Example:
nasal vowel
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Five-letter puzzle facts
- How common
- Common
- #1,099 of 8,600 five-letter words by how often they're used
- Can be a Play Five answer
- As a first guess
- Tests likely letters better than 40% of common five-letter words.
- Vowels: 2 · Different letters: 4 · Repeated letters: a