Smallest unit of speech (7 letters) — Crossword Helper

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Smallest unit of speech (7 letter answer)

The Answer

PHONEME

Tags

basic call figure key linguistic linguistically phoneme pronunciation representation smallest speech unit

Notes

The answer PHONEME is rarely seen, appearing only about once every 2400 puzzles.

Related Clues

"Call!"
Figure of speech?
Basic linguistic unit
Pronunciation key representation
"Sh" or "th," linguistically

Definition

PHONEME as a noun:

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