Phoneme

/fˈəʊniːm/

/ˈfoʊnim/

Phoneme

phonème

the smallest unit of sound in a language that can distinguish meaning, often represented by a specific symbol in phonetic notation

Exemples

1. Phonemes, one of natural selection's most brilliant inventions-- I'm going to pass over this very swiftly.

2. You know phonemes.

3. They’ve learned phonemes!

4. And a phoneme is just a little fragment of a word like the little sound.