Word.ws English Dictionary

phonesthemes

phonesthemes is the plural of phonestheme.

Meaning of phonestheme

Noun

phonestheme (plural phonesthemes)

  1. A sound that, because it appears in a number of words of similar meaning, has a recognizable semantic association.

Questions about phonesthemes

What is phonesthemes the plural of?
Phonesthemes is the plural of phonestheme.

Words near phonesthemes in the dictionary

  1. phones up
  2. phonescoping
  3. phonesex
  4. phonesful
  5. phonestheme
  6. phonesthemes
  7. phonesthemic
  8. phonesthesia
  9. phonesthetic
  10. phonesthetics
  11. phonet.

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: phonesthemes (page history and authors); phonestheme (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “phonesthemes.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/phonesthemes. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.