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Allophone

nounverified·updated May 18, 2026

(linguistics) any of various acoustically different forms of the same phoneme

Classifications

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Sensitivity

unclassified

Information Class

unclassified

Variants

plural
Allophones
possessive
Allophone's
pluralpossessive
Allophones'