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Phoneme vs Letters - What's the difference?

phoneme | letters |

As nouns the difference between phoneme and letters

is that phoneme is 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 while letters is plural of lang=en.

As a verb letters is

third-person singular of letter.

phoneme

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • 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

    * * * phonemic * phonemical * phonemically * phonemicist * phonemics

    See also

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

    Anagrams

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    letters

    English

    Noun

    (head)
  • Verb

    (head)
  • (letter)
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