plosive consonant

Also known as stop, plosive, oral occlusive, oral stop, stop consonant

In phonetics, a plosive, also known as an occlusive or simply a stop, is a pulmonic consonant in which the vocal tract is blocked so that all airflow ceases.

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A plosive consonant is a speech sound where you completely block the flow of air through your mouth or throat, like when you say the "p" in "pat" or the "b" in "bat." These sounds matter because they're fundamental building blocks of how we form words in spoken language, and understanding them helps explain how people produce and recognize speech.

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Commons category: Stop consonants

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Terminology
Articulation
Common plosives
Classification
Voice
Aspiration
Length
Nasalization
Airstream mechanism
Tenseness
Transcription
English
Variations
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In phonetics, a plosive, also known as an occlusive or simply a stop, is a pulmonic consonant in which the vocal tract is blocked so that all airflow ceases.

The occlusion may be made with the tongue tip or blade (, ), tongue body (, ), lips (, ), or glottis (). Plosives contrast with nasals, where the vocal tract is blocked but airflow continues through the nose, as in and , and with fricatives, where partial occlusion impedes but does not block airflow in the vocal tract.