English Explanatory Dictionary

near-minimal pair

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. 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.

Word forms

near-minimal pair near-minimal pairs near minimal pair
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