consonant

adjective1 of 2

a speech sound; any letter in the alphabet that is not a vowel.

• “This consonant tends to become voiced between vowels.”Tatoeba
• “I have difficulty pronouncing consonant clusters.”Tatoeba

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noun2 of 2

A sound that results from the passage of air through restrictions of the oral cavity; any sound that is not the dominant sound of a syllable, the dominant sound generally being a vowel.