Synonyms for affricate
- click
- consonant
- diphthong
- fricative
- implosive
- liquid
- phone
- phonetic entity
- phonetic unit
- plosive
- sibilant
- sonant
- spirant
- syllable
- vocable
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The affricate in words like gaol is of French origin (gele), from a Late Lat.
Here, the j is to be pronounced as a double letter (technically an affricate) as in English.
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