Tool to distinguish vowels and consonants. Vowels and consonants are letters of the Latin alphabet that allow distinguishing sounds according to their pronunciations.
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Vowels and Consonants
Vowels and Consonants Detector
Vowels and Consonants Word Search
Answers to Questions (FAQ)
What is a vowel or a consonant? (Definition)
The usual alphabet (known as the Latin alphabet) distinguishes 6 vowels and 20 consonants from the mode of sound production of the letters. Vowels are clear sounds pronounced without contact while consonants represent noises made by contact (tongue, mouth, lips, etc.)
What is the list of consonants?
The latin alphabet is made of 26 letters including 20 consonants.
Example: B C D F G H J K L M N P Q R S T V W X Z (bcdfghjklmnpqrstvwxz)
Some treat the letter Y as a consonant.
What is the list of vowels?
The latin alphabet is made of 26 letters including 6 vowels.
Example: A E I O U Y (aeiouy)
Some treat the letter Y as a consonant.
How to hide a binary message with vowels and consonants?
It is possible to binarize a message by indicating 0 (or 1) for each consonant (or vowel), it is a method used in steganography to hide a binary message.
Example: DCODE becomes in binary either 11010 or 00101
How to list words that alternate consonants and vowels?
dCode offers searches by vowel (V) and consonant (C) patterns.
VCVCVC indicates a 6-letter word alternating vowels and consonants.
What are vowels and consonants for?
In phonetics, vowel produces a sound that lets air flow, while for the consonant, the tongue or mouth and lips make the sound.
What are a contoid and a vocoid?
To be precise terminologically, in phonetics, contoids are the equivalent of consonants and vocoids are the equivalent of vowels. Phonology talks about vowels and consonants, phonetics talks about vocoids and contoids.
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Vowels and Consonants on dCode.fr [online website], retrieved on 2024-11-21,
- Vowels and Consonants Detector
- Vowels and Consonants Word Search
- What is a vowel or a consonant? (Definition)
- What is the list of consonants?
- What is the list of vowels?
- How to hide a binary message with vowels and consonants?
- How to list words that alternate consonants and vowels?
- What are vowels and consonants for?
- What are a contoid and a vocoid?
