👉 Sibilance, in English, refers to the difference between two or more sounds of a word. It is often seen as a phonetic feature that distinguishes words from one another and can be used for spelling purposes. Sibilances are typically present in words with similar vowel sounds, such as "s" and "sh," which sound alike but have different stress patterns. For example, the English word "cat" has two sibilants: /tʃ/ (the first sibil
