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7 letters · 14 points in Scrabble
Meaning
noun (linguistics) one of a small set of speech sounds that are distinguished by the speakers of a particular language
originFrom Ancient Greek φώνημα (phṓnēma, “sound”), from φωνέω (phōnéō, “to sound”), from φωνή (phōnḗ, “sound”). By surface analysis, phone (“speech sound”) + -eme (“unit”).
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