phoneme

Meanings

Plural: phonemes

Noun

(linguistics) one of a small set of speech sounds that are distinguished by the speakers of a particular language
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.

Origin / Etymology

From Ancient Greek φώνημα (phṓnēma, “sound”), from φωνέω (phōnéō, “to sound”), from φωνή (phōnḗ, “sound”). By surface analysis, phone (“speech sound”) + -eme (“unit”).

Scrabble Score: 14

phoneme is a valid Scrabble (US) TWL word
phoneme is a valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
phoneme is a valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 16

phoneme is a valid Words With Friends word