👉 In the context of linguistics, "roughers" is a term used to describe a type of consonant that has a low frequency and a high stress. Roughers are often associated with words in languages where vowels are stressed at the beginning or end of the word, such as in English or Spanish. They can be pronounced as a single sound (like /r/ in English) or as several sounds (like /r/-ing in Spanish). In many languages, roughers are also used