phoneme

Meaning of phoneme

noun

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.

Information about phoneme

It is a name.
The plural form of phoneme is: phonemes.
Languages in which phoneme is used:
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- English

Hyphenation of phoneme

pho-neme

It consists of 2 syllables and 7 chars.
phoneme is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables

Translation of phoneme

French: phonème
Italian: fonema
Spanish: fonema
Portuguese: fonema

Words that rhyme with phoneme

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