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Phoneme

nounverified·updated May 18, 2026

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

Classifications

Entity Type

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Sensitivity

unclassified

Information Class

unclassified

Variants

plural
Phonemes
possessive
Phoneme's
pluralpossessive
Phonemes'