Postvocalic consonant

In phonetics and phonology, a postvocalic consonant is a consonant that occurs both:

1. after a vowel
2. before another consonant or in a final position. Examples include the n in stand or the n in sun.

Consonants that occur in-between two vowels are separately classified as intervocalic consonants. A significant and specially behaving postvocalic consonant in the English language is the postvocalic "r," often known as the English rhotic consonant, whose behavior alone divides the language into rhotic vs. non-rhotic accents.