creaky voice
Fry-like vocal quality
Creaky voice is a way of speaking where the vocal cords vibrate slowly and irregularly, producing a low, rattling quality—like a door creaking.
Linguists call it vocal fry.
Some languages use creaky voice to distinguish words; in English, it's a stylistic feature often associated with young women's speech, though it occurs across demographics: Her voice got creaky at the end of sentences.
- laryngealOf the voice organ
- vocal fryCreaky lowest voice register
- croakHarsh guttural sound
- phonationVocal fold vibration
- speechOral communication ability
crack · articulation · acoustics · linguistics · vocal cords · intonation · prosody · morning · rusty · husky · resonance · timbre · scratchy · weathered · tired · dry · rough · aged
- vocal cuesintonation, pitch, tone, inflection, prosody
- toneshigh tone, low tone, mid tone, neutral tone, tone language
- phoneticsphonemes, phoneme, vocal folds, consonants, vowels
- phonationsvoiceless, falsetto, whisper, vocal fry, murmur
- voice productionvocal cords, vocal folds, larynx, phonation, glottis
- speechspeech, speaking, talk, diction, conversation