Say which of the following groups of phonemes contains one which is not an English phoneme.
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Phoneme
//ˈfəʊ.niːm//
Synonyms for "phoneme" (67 found)
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Closest matches (14)
Strong matches (20)
Related words (33)
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40 entriesShowing 16 of 40 words.
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15 entriesderived from
1 entrieshas context
1 entriesis a
2 entriesrelated to
13 entriesTranslations
82 translations across 67 languages.
Albanian
1 entries- fonemë noun (indivisible unit of sound)
Arabic
2 entries- صَوْت لُغَوِيّ noun (indivisible unit of sound)
- فُونِيم noun (indivisible unit of sound)
Armenian
1 entries- հնչույթ noun (indivisible unit of sound)
Asturian
1 entries- fonema noun (indivisible unit of sound)
Belarusian
2 entries- фане́ма noun (indivisible unit of sound)
- фанэ́ма noun (indivisible unit of sound)
Breton
1 entries- soniad noun (indivisible unit of sound)
Bulgarian
1 entries- фоне́ма noun (indivisible unit of sound)
Catalan
1 entries- fonema noun (indivisible unit of sound)
Cebuano
1 entries- ponema noun (indivisible unit of sound)
Chinese
1 entries- 音素 noun (indivisible unit of sound)
Chinese Cantonese
2 entries- 音位 noun (indivisible unit of sound)
- 音素 noun (indivisible unit of sound)
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 音位 noun (indivisible unit of sound)
- 音素 noun (indivisible unit of sound)
Czech
1 entries- foném noun (indivisible unit of sound)
Danish
1 entries- fonem noun (indivisible unit of sound)
Dutch
1 entries- foneem noun (indivisible unit of sound)
Esperanto
1 entries- fonemo noun (indivisible unit of sound)
Estonian
1 entries- foneem noun (indivisible unit of sound)
Finnish
1 entries- foneemi noun (indivisible unit of sound)
French
1 entries- phonème noun (indivisible unit of sound)
Galician
1 entries- fonema noun (indivisible unit of sound)
Georgian
1 entries- ბგერა noun (indivisible unit of sound)
German
1 entries- Phonem noun (indivisible unit of sound)
Greek
1 entries- φώνημα noun (indivisible unit of sound)
Gujarati
1 entries- ધ્વનિઘટક noun (indivisible unit of sound)
Hindi
1 entries- स्वनिम noun (indivisible unit of sound)
Hungarian
1 entries- fonéma noun (indivisible unit of sound)
Icelandic
1 entries- hljóðan noun (indivisible unit of sound)
Ido
1 entries- fonemo noun (indivisible unit of sound)
Interlingua
1 entries- phonema noun (indivisible unit of sound)
Italian
1 entries- fonema noun (indivisible unit of sound)
Japanese
1 entries- 音素 noun (indivisible unit of sound)
Kannada
1 entries- ಧ್ವನಿಮಾ noun (indivisible unit of sound)
Khmer
2 entries- សទ្ទតា noun (indivisible unit of sound)
- សទ្ទភូត noun (indivisible unit of sound)
Korean
3 entries- 낱소리 noun (indivisible unit of sound)
- 음소 noun (indivisible unit of sound)
- 표음 noun (indivisible unit of sound)
Latin
1 entries- phōnēma noun (indivisible unit of sound)
Latvian
1 entries- fonēma noun (indivisible unit of sound)
Lithuanian
1 entries- fonema noun (indivisible unit of sound)
Lower Sorbian
1 entries- fonem noun (indivisible unit of sound)
Malay
2 entries- fonem noun (indivisible unit of sound)
- warna bunyi noun (indivisible unit of sound)
Manx
1 entries- myn-heean noun (indivisible unit of sound)
Marathi
1 entries- ध्वनिघटक noun (indivisible unit of sound)
Mongolian
4 entries- авиалбар noun (indivisible unit of sound)
- фонем noun (indivisible unit of sound)
- ᠠᠪᠢᠶᠠᠯᠪᠤᠷᠢ noun (indivisible unit of sound)
- ᠹᠣᠨᠧᠮ noun (indivisible unit of sound)
Northern Kurdish
1 entries- vac noun (indivisible unit of sound)
Occitan
1 entries- fonèma noun (indivisible unit of sound)
Persian
1 entries- واج noun (indivisible unit of sound)
Polish
1 entries- fonem noun (indivisible unit of sound)
Portuguese
1 entries- fonema noun (indivisible unit of sound)
Romanian
1 entries- fonem noun (indivisible unit of sound)
Russian
1 entries- фоне́ма noun (indivisible unit of sound)
Serbo-Croatian
4 entries- fonéma noun (indivisible unit of sound)
- fònēm noun (indivisible unit of sound)
- фо̀не̄м noun (indivisible unit of sound)
- фоне́ма noun (indivisible unit of sound)
Sicilian
1 entries- funima noun (indivisible unit of sound)
Sindhi
1 entries- وايوم noun (indivisible unit of sound)
Slovak
1 entries- fonéma noun (indivisible unit of sound)
Slovene
2 entries- fonem noun (indivisible unit of sound)
- glásnik noun (indivisible unit of sound)
Spanish
1 entries- fonema noun (indivisible unit of sound)
Swahili
1 entries- fonimu noun (indivisible unit of sound)
Swedish
1 entries- fonem noun (indivisible unit of sound)
Tagalog
1 entries- multinig noun (indivisible unit of sound)
Tamil
1 entries- ஒலியன் noun (indivisible unit of sound)
Thai
1 entries- หน่วยเสียง noun (indivisible unit of sound)
Tibetan
1 entries- མ་སྒྲ noun (indivisible unit of sound)
Turkish
1 entries- sesbirim noun (indivisible unit of sound)
Ukrainian
1 entries- фоне́ма noun (indivisible unit of sound)
Upper Sorbian
1 entries- fonem noun (indivisible unit of sound)
Vietnamese
1 entries- âm vị noun (indivisible unit of sound)
Walloon
1 entries- oyon noun (indivisible unit of sound)
Yiddish
1 entries- פֿאָנעם noun (indivisible unit of sound)
Sample sentences
7 total sentences available.
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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