Japanese

Noun

音位転換 ‎(hiragana おんいてんかん, romaji on'itenkan, historical hiragana おんゐてんくわん)

1. (phonetics, prosody) metathesis (the transposition of letters, syllables or sounds within a word)

References

1. ↑ 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, ISBN 4-385-13905-9