Phoneme

/ˈfəʊ.niːm/

Synonyms for "phoneme" (80 found)

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Closest matches (16)

Strong matches (24)

Noun(5 words)
contrastive setcontrastive unitdistinctive soundlanguage elementletter sound

Related words (40)

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surdsyllabic nucleussyllabic peaksyllabletransition soundtriphthongvelarvocablevocalicvocoidvoicevoiced soundvoiceless soundvoicingvowel
Noun(4 words)
Adjective(1 words)
sound element

Related word relations

OpenGloss and ConceptNet supply richer edges like generalizations, collocations, and derivations.

5 relation types

More general

4 entries
linguistic unitphonesoundspeech sound

More specific

4 entries
consonant phonemenasal phonemevoiced phonemevowel phoneme

Collocations

6 entries
consonant phonemecontrastive phonememinimal pairphoneme distinctionphoneme inventoryphonemic transcription

Inflections

1 entries

Derivations

2 entries

Sample sentences

7 total sentences available.

Tatoeba + Wiktionary

Say which of the following groups of phonemes contains one which is not an English phoneme.

Source: tatoeba (1193208)

That sound does not exist in the language as a separate phoneme.

Source: tatoeba (6037953)

The sound exists in the language only as an allophone of the phoneme /t/.

Source: tatoeba (6037954)

In this language, the phoneme /b/ is pronounced [p] when it occurs at the end of a word.

Source: tatoeba (6037965)

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