🗣️ Expressed aloud 🔊 With vocal vibration

voiced

5.3

A sound made when parts inside your throat vibrate

adjective
/vɔɪst/

Specialized

: sonoro

The letter 'b' is considered a voiced consonant because it requires vocal cord vibration.

Examples

Let's say the second line there, which ends in a voiced stop.
I'm going to focus today on things that we call voiced in a voiced sound.
In linguistics, a voiced sound occurs when the vocal cords vibrate during pronunciation.
Many languages have both voiced and voiceless consonants, creating distinct sound pairs.

Synonyms

soft

vsvoiced

Specialized

12 4.2

Made by vibrating the vocal cords

is the same meaning but uses another word to name it

sonant

vsvoiced

Specialized

9.9

Made when the vocal cords vibrate during speech

is the same meaning but uses another word to name it

Antonyms

voiceless

Specialized

1 7.0

A speech sound made without vibration of the vocal cords

Compounds

loud-voiced

4.4

A person who speaks very loudly so others hear them

harsh-voiced

6.8

A voice or sound that is rough and unpleasant

voiced sound

Specialized

4.1

A speech sound made when the vocal cords in your throat move quickly

How Voiced

voiced

Specialized

5.3

voiceless

Specialized

1 7.0

Surface Forms

voiced positive

Morphology

voiced = voice (transparent) = voice + ed

Adjectival formation indicating 'having voice' (i.e., produced with vocal-fold vibration), transparently derived from 'voice'.

Etymology

Voiced for speech sounds also comes from the Latin root vox meaning 'voice', like in vocal. A 'voiced' sound is one that has a real 'voice' because your vocal cords move when you say it.