affricate vs affricate consonant

affricate and affricate consonant both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
affricate	Yes	No	No	No
affricate consonant	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, affricate and affricate consonant are synonyms defined as:

affricate and affricate consonant: a composite speech sound consisting of a stop and a fricative articulated at the same point (as `ch' in `chair' and `j' in `joy')

Other synonyms of affricate include affricative.

affricate (noun)	affricate consonant (noun)
a composite speech sound consisting of a stop and a fricative articulated at the same point (as `ch' in `chair' and `j' in `joy')	a composite speech sound consisting of a stop and a fricative articulated at the same point (as `ch' in `chair' and `j' in `joy')