How to pronounce “horse-hoarse merger”

Meaning

• [Noun]
• (phonology) A phonemic merger of /ɔɹ/ and /oɹ/, so that pairs of words such as horse and hoarse, war and wore, for and four, etc become homophones.

Practice Nearby Words

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Similar Sounds

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