affricate consonant vs affricate

affricate consonant and affricate both are nouns.

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

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

affricate consonant and affricate: 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 consonant include affricative.

affricate consonant (noun)	affricate (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')