schwa
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Is schwa a Scrabble word?
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What is the meaning of schwa?
Definition
noun (English)
1. (phonetics) An indeterminate central vowel sound as the "a" in "about", represented as /ə/ in IPA.Examples: "The participle has also, owing to the accent, the lightest possible forms; but here there was no reduplication, and so in class I. the "schwa" took the form e before single mutes or fricatives, and elsewhere o."; "However, word-final unstressed schwa is deleted even by the speakers from South Albania, though to different degrees and dependant on the speech style[…]"Synonyms: natural vowel, neutral vowel
verb (English)
1. (phonetics, of a vowel sound, rare) To be reduced to schwa.rare
Definition source: Wiktionary