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Allophone Moderate

Origin: Greek suffix -phone

Allophone has 3 different meanings across 1 category:

Noun

Definitions
Noun
1

(linguistics) any of various acoustically different forms of the same phoneme

2

Any of two or more alternative pronunciations for a phoneme.

Adjective
1

Of or relating to those whose mother tongue is neither English, French nor an Indigenous language of Canada

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Broader Terms (hypernyms)
phoneme
Rhyming Words
one done wone lone mone fone none zone pone cone hone rone sone jone ione yone tone gone bone prone
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