(phonetics) any one of the set of smallest units of speech in a language that distinguish one word from another. In English, the 's' in 'sip' and the 'z' in 'zip' represent two different phonemes.
phonemic adjective
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Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
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Is phoneme a noun, verb, or something else?
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