PHONEME

phoneme

(noun) (linguistics) one of a small set of speech sounds that are distinguished by the speakers of a particular language

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Noun

phoneme (plural phonemes)

An indivisible unit of sound in a given language. A phoneme is an abstraction of the physical speech sounds (phones) and may encompass several different phones.

Anagrams

• phenome

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