schwa
Pronunciation
  • enPR: shwä, IPA: /ʃwɑ/
  • (humourous, unstressed) IPA: /ʃwə/
Noun

schwa (plural schwas)

  1. (phonetics) An indeterminate central vowel sound as the "a" in "about", represented as /ə/ in IPA.
    Synonyms: natural vowel, neutral vowel
    Coordinate terms: a-schwa#English|a-schwa, schwi#English|schwi
    hypo en
  2. The character ə.
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