Rhotic

Pronunciation

• RP IPA: /ˈrəʊtɪk/
• US enPR: rōt'Ä­k, IPA: /ˈroÊŠtɪk/, ˈɹoÊŠtɪ̈k
• Rhymes: -əʊtɪk

Origin

Back-formation from {{3}}, coined by John C. Wells 1968

John Wells’s Phonetic Blog: Rhotic

Full definition of rhotic

Adjective

1. (of an English accent) Pronouncing the letter r wherever it appears, as in bar () and bard or barred ().Rhotic speech is common in much of the United States, Canada, many parts of the north and west of England, Ireland, and Scotland.
2. (of a phoneme) Having the quality of the said letter. This includes the sounds of the IPA symbols /ɹ/, /ɻ/, /ɚ/, /ɝ/, and some would say /r/, or R-colored vowel.

Antonyms

• non-rhotic

Derived terms

• prerhotic
• rhoticity

Related terms

• rhotacism

Anagrams

• Ch'orti', Chorti
• thoric