German

Noun

Phoneme

1. plural of Phonem

English

Noun

phoneme ‎(plural phonemes)

1. 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.

Derived terms

• archiphoneme
• diaphoneme
• phonemic
• phonemical
• phonemically
• phonemicist
• phonemics

Related terms

Translations

See also

• chereme
• chroneme
• grammeme
• grapheme
• lemma
• lexeme
• listeme
• morpheme
• sememe
• toneme

Anagrams

• phenome