CVVCVCtunnus
CVVCVCtunnus is a linguistic label used to denote a word form whose phonotactic shape follows the sequence consonant, vowel, vowel, consonant, vowel, consonant. The pattern CVVCVC is read as C V V C V C, where C stands for any consonant and V for any vowel. Tunnus is Finnish for identifier or tag, so the term describes a way to mark or classify a word shape within a broader system of phonological notation.
The notation is language-agnostic and commonly used in phonology, morphology, and language pedagogy to describe or
Examples of a CVVCVC-shaped form are often constructed for illustration, since many languages exhibit restrictions on
Applications include corpus annotation, phonotactic analysis, and language-teaching resources that illustrate permissible word shapes. Limitations of
See also: phonotactics, syllable structure, CV notation, word shape.