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phenemes

phenemes is the plural of pheneme.

Meaning of pheneme

Noun

pheneme (plural phenemes)

  1. A (hypothetical) linguistic item that is atomic both with respect to phonology as well as semantics; an item that is both a phoneme as well as a sememe.

Questions about phenemes

What is phenemes the plural of?
Phenemes is the plural of pheneme.

Words near phenemes in the dictionary

  1. phencyclidines
  2. phendimetrazine
  3. phene
  4. phenelzine
  5. pheneme
  6. phenemes
  7. pheneotype
  8. pheneridine
  9. phenes
  10. phenetamine
  11. phenethicillin

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Adapted from Wiktionary: phenemes (page history and authors); pheneme (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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