Heard spelling

chaleza

Spelled chalaza. an unstressed vowel

The first vowel is an a.

Chalaza has three of them, and only the middle one is audible.

The word is symmetrical on the page and lopsided in the mouth, with the two outer vowels reduced to almost nothing. Chaleza writes the first of them as e, a fair reading of a sound that carries no information at all.

Say

kuh-LAY-zuh

Letters

C-H-A-L-A-Z-A