Schwa

What do we mean by schwa?

A mid-central neutral vowel, typically occurring in unstressed syllables, as the final vowel of English sofa. noun

The symbol (ə) used to represent an unstressed neutral vowel and, in some systems of phonetic transcription, a stressed mid-central vowel, as in but. noun

An indeterminate central vowel sound as the "a" in "about", represented as /ə/ in IPA and /@/ in SAMPA and X-SAMPA. noun

The character ə, an upside-down, backwards, lower-case E noun

A neutral middle vowel; occurs in unstressed syllables noun

An indeterminate central vowel sound as the "a" in "about", represented as /ə/ in IPA.

The character ə.

The upside-down "e" symbol you always see in dictionary pronunciation guides. Pronounced "uh" or "ih". Urban Dictionary

1) An expression of excitement, or extreme happiness. 2) Acknowledgement of someone who has greeted you, or a greeting in itself. 3) A state of mind, in which one is relaxed. 4) A neural vowel sound used in the dictionary, depicted as a lowercase letter 'e', rotated 180 degrees counter-clockwise. __ Slang originated from Hashmeer of Group X, who used the phrase "Shiggity shiggity schwa." Eventually, Jager, of The Hoodlums in Upstate New York, began to use Schwa inan every day context. Urban Dictionary

A "neutral" vowel that sounds like the "uh" sound at the beginning of "about" and is represented by an upside-down lower-case "e" in dictionaries. Urban Dictionary

N. Any object that has been grabbed by someone and thrust into their pants, making it lost forever. Urban Dictionary

A person who laughs like Blanche Barrow from the movie 'Bonnie and Clyde.' This laugh was so amazing that the actress who played Blanche actually won best supporting actress that year. To honor her memory, a schwa cries, "Heh heh heh" in similar fashion. Urban Dictionary

Pot / marijuana / weed / grass Urban Dictionary

-interjection, exclamation, interrogative A contraction of the words say and what. Used in informal conversation to denote confusion or disbelief. Can be used interchangeably with the words huh and eh (for Canadians). First appearing in the late 80s, early 90s. Most notably used by Pauly Shore (as the Weasel) in the movie "Encino Man", and Mike Myers in the "Wayne's World" movies. -Also can be used when cell phone conversation becomes garbled by a spotty coverage area. Urban Dictionary

Sex, Or Any Other Sexual Activity That Excites You =D Urban Dictionary

Paint that flakes off of cheap plastic beads and is used for psychological testing, similar to the inkblot tests. When capitalized like SCHWA, it can also be used as a substitute exclamation for exclamations of all shapes and sizes. Urban Dictionary

A penis, it can be any size :) Urban Dictionary

Words that are spelled similarly to schwa:
schwa, shwa, scha, schla.

Words that are triggered by (strongly associated with) the word schwa:
epenthesis, syncope, elided, tilde, deletion, syllabic, vowel, consonant, formalization, syllable, diacritic, syllables, diphthong, phonemic, laryngeal, velar, consonants, ipa, phoneme, cyrillic, pronunciation, stressed, delete, pronounced, orthography, phonology, phonetic, transcribed, voiceless, hindi, italics, lexical, tatar, suffixes, upscale, implicit, spelled, syriac, inherent, penultimate, alphabet, stress, inserted, marathi, barker, nasal, rhyme, catalan, masculine, accent, literal, dialect, reservations, plural, bengali, nouns, words, verbs, preceding, pie, analyzed, dishes, rounded, spelling, acute, malay, sanskrit, chef, borrowed, word, phenomenon, sounds, languages, neutral, tendency, fails, symbol, albanian, sound, letter, script, philippine, restaurant, occurs, indonesian, correct, instance, weak, reduction, necessarily, distinction, arabic, represents, spoken, disappeared, rule, occur, romanian, rarely, persian.

Words that rhyme with schwa:
law, draw, saw, withdraw, awe, raw, bourgeois, la, paw, flaw, spa, straw, claw, thaw, haw, outlaw, maw, jaw, chutzpah, ra, voila, ya, qua, dada, ta, aha, da, gnaw, guffaw, yaw, pa, pasha, aw, ha, ma, cha, ah, ka, daw, shaw, bra, macaw, chihuahua, craw, redraw, seesaw, blah, na, coleslaw, caw, esau, gras, hoopla, nah, yah, sa, hurrah, ottawa, overdraw, bylaw, squaw, panama, utah, ga, slaw, pshaw, omaha, sha, chainsaw, jigsaw, ja, baccarat, whipsaw, wa, arkansas, rah, shah, moi, ona, xio, naw, bah, chaw, scrimshaw, hacksaw, dumas, grandpa, draugh, bois, ahh, doha, trois, faw, fermata, rawe, wah, gaw, hah, baja, mackinaw.

Adjectives that are often used to describe schwa:
final, epenthetic, french, unstressed, dutch, underlying, neutral, english, initial, central, inflectional, german, phonetic, medial, intrusive, low, short, non, weak, double, loco, declensional, regular, indefinite, phonemic, internal, variable, syllabic, fronted.

Nouns that are often described by the adjective schwa:
sound, deletion, vowel, loss, epenthesis, insertion, syllables, vowels, rule, syllable, symbol, sounds, glide, conversion, offglide, coloring, rules, realisations, secundum, apocope, drop, phoneme, syncope, paragoge.

Consonant match to schwa:
squaw.

Words that sound like schwa:
schwa, shwa, shia, shua, shiah, showa, shw, sra, shoah, shaya, chah, schwer, shoa, hsa, shma, ssia, schewe, sja, shra, sza, iwa, aiwa, awa, wha, twa, joie, jye, lwa, hsieh, whah, twah, uwa, ywa, jwa, jois, zwa, awwa, jwo, jwi, schwinn, schwing, schweppe, sheh, schwyz, shui, sheehy, shuey, shuah, shuai, she, shaw, sha, shay, shah, shae, chez, chau, schwab, scho, shai, schmo, shao, shaye, chaud, hsu, schnee, schwag, schmoe, schwann, schuh, schwan, schweiz, choux, hsi, schwein, schwul, schmoo, schow, shaa, schue, hsia, schley, shawe, hsiao, schweiss, shau, schau, scha, scheu, schwabe, schweich, schwede, schwach, ecia, schwall, schah, cheu, schrei, schlau, schei.