pho·neme /ˈfəʊniːm $ ˈfoʊ-/ noun [countableC] technical SLthe smallest unit of speech that can be used to make one word different from another word, such as the ‘b’ and the ‘p’ in ‘big’ and ‘pig’ 音位 → morpheme —phonemic /fəˈniːmɪk/ adjectiveadj
—phonemically /-kli/ adverbadv