Schwar vs. Schwa — What's the Difference?

(phonetics) A rhotacized schwa.

In linguistics, specifically phonetics and phonology, schwa (, rarely or ; sometimes spelled shwa) is the mid central vowel sound (rounded or unrounded), placed in the central position of the vowel chart, denoted by the IPA symbol ⟨ə⟩, or another vowel sound close to that position. It is the vowel sound produced when the lips, tongue, and jaw are completely relaxed.

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

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.

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

The character ə.

To be reduced to schwa.

A neutral middle vowel; occurs in unstressed syllables