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The voiced bilabial plosive is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is b, and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is b. The voiced bilabial plosive occurs in English, and it is the sound denoted by the letter "b" in boy.
In English[b] is one of the few phonemes in English that has a one-to-one correspondance with a letter. It is always denoted by "b", and excluding a handful of words that are spelled with a silent "b" (e.g. doubt and lamb), it is always pronounced [b]. In other languagesSpanishSpanish has [b]. It is denoted by "b", as in bombero (firefighter). In many dialects, it may also be denoted by a word-initial "v", as in veinte (twenty).
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