How do you pronounce phonemic?

The recorded pronunciation is /fəˈni.mɪk/.

phonemic

/fəˈni.mɪk/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.44 in modern English

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adj

Relating to a difference between sounds that can change the meaning of words in a language.

adj

"We've finished our phonemic analysis and we're ready to move on to morphology."
"Tone is phonemic in Chinese."
"Spanish orthography is highly phonemic: you can tell exactly how the words sound just by looking at how they are spelled."

Etymology tree English phoneme Proto-Indo-European *-ikos Proto-Italic *-ikos Latin -icuslbor. Old French -iquebor. Middle English -ik English -ic English phonemic From phoneme + -ic.

phonematic (alternative, rare)

biphonemic monophonemic morphophonemic multiphonemic nonphonemic phonemically phonemicist phonemicize polyphonemic prephonemic subphonemic triphonemic

phonemic merger phonemic split

emic etic phoneme phonemicity phonemicness phonemics phonetic phonology

phonemically

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