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formant
- /ˈfɔː(ɹ)mənt/
Rhymes with -ɔː(ɹ)mənt
Where it comes from
Borrowed from German Formant, from Latin fōrmāns (“shaping; forming; fashioning”), present participle of fōrmō (“to shape; to form; to fashion”). Doublet of formans.
noun formants
- A band of frequencies in a sound spectrum that have greater intensity and determine the quality of a sound, especially the resonant frequencies of the vocal tract that determine the quality of vowels and sonorant consonants. The resonances of the vocal tract are called formants. Trying to hear the separate formants in a vowel is difficult. We are so used to a vowel being a single meaningful entity that it is difficult to consider it as a sound with separable bits. But it is possible to say vowels so that some of their c
Translations
Talk about this word "formant." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/formant. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026. formant. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/formant "formant." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/formant.Cite this
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title = {formant},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
year = {2026},
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urldate = {2026-11-06}
}
