barred i
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.71 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
1
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A close central unrounded vowel sound, represented as /ɨ/ in IPA.
Example Sentences
- "i with stroke/barred i Additional Latin Letter used in Micmac, Mixtex, and Sahaptin. [U+0268, U+0197]"
- "As I told you at our last consultation, I am fairly certain that your students' consistent difficulty with the schwa, the schwar, the barred i, the intrusive r, the inversion of velar plosives and some fricatives and affricatives, and their confusion with alveolar plosives—all and more of which difficulties manifest themselves in errors in writing—I say, the difficulty has its basis in the dialect your students are speaking."
- "Both the barred i (/i/) and the schwa /ə/ occur frequently but inconsistently throughout American English in weak-stressed positions in running speech as distinct from single words pronounced in isolation."
Inflected Forms
barred i's (plural)
Synonyms
i with stroke