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chroneme

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
chroneme
IPA
15
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
1
Syllables
7
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A basic, theoretical unit of sound that can distinguish words by duration only of a vowel or consonant.

Etymology

From Ancient Greek χρόνος (khrónos) + -eme, a suffix indicating a fundamental unit in some aspect of linguistic structure, extracted from phoneme, from Ancient Greek φώνημα (phṓnēma, “sound”), from φωνέω (phōnéō, “to sound”), from φωνή (phōnḗ, “sound”). By surface analysis, chrono- + -eme.

Origin

Word Breakdown

  • Root: χρόνος, φώνημα

Inflected Forms

chronemes (plural)

Phrases

chrono-

Frequently Paired Words

chronemic chronemical chronemically chronemics chrono-

Questions

What does chroneme mean?
A basic, theoretical unit of sound that can distinguish words by duration only of a vowel or consonant.
Where does chroneme come from?
It is traced to Ancient Greek.

How to pronounce chroneme

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