Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

near-minimal pair

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.99 in modern English

Syllables: near-min-i-mal -pair
IPA

21

Scrabble Score

15

Letters

5

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A pair of words differing by a few (but more than one) phonetic segments or suprasegments, used to suggest a proposed phoneme, toneme, or chroneme may be valid.

Inflected Forms

near-minimal pairs (plural) near minimal pair (alternative)

Questions

What does near-minimal pair mean?: A pair of words differing by a few (but more than one) phonetic segments or suprasegments, used to suggest a proposed phoneme, toneme, or chroneme may be valid.

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