4 ms·In phonetics, it's a "plosive".by wffurr 12y agoIn phonetics, it's a "plosive".Sharlin 12y agoA word which, fittingly, itself starts with a plosive.pavlov 12y ago"Plosive" is an onomatopoeic... And "onomatopoeic" is a word that's kind of fun to use exactly because there's nothing onomatopoeic about it.deleted 12y ago[deleted]