The voiceless labial–velar fricative is a type of consonantal sound, used in spoken languages.

The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is ⟨xʷ⟩ or occasionally ⟨ʍ⟩.

[6] Other linguists believe that a "voiceless approximant" is a contradiction in terms, and so [w̥] must be the same as [xʷ].

Ladefoged and Maddieson were unable to confirm that any language has fricatives produced at two places of articulation, like labial and velar.

Shaded areas denote articulations judged impossible.