Hyphenation of spirant

Wondering how to hyphenate the English word spirant? This word can be hyphenated and contains 2 syllables as shown below.

spi-rant

Definitions of spirant:

1.
A continuant consonant produced by breath moving against a narrowing of the vocal tract
2.
Of speech sounds produced by forcing air through a constricted passage (as `f', `s', `z', or `th' in both `thin' and `then')

Synonyms of spirant:

adj fricative, sibilant, soft
nounfricative consonant, fricative, continuant consonant, continuant

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