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velopharyngeal

adjective/ˌviːləʊfəˈrɪndʒɪəl/

C2CEFR level
95/100Rarity: very rare
TechnicalRegister

Relating to the soft palate and the pharyngeal walls that together separate the oral and nasal cavities.

Velopharyngeal dysfunction allowed air to escape nasally during pressure consonants.

Topic: Speech & language therapy in Medical English

Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.

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