Definitions for allophone

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allophone al·lo·phone

Spelling: [al-uh-fohn]

IPA: /ˈæl əˌfoʊn/

Allophone is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 254 anagrams from letters in allophone (aehllnoop).

Definitions for allophone

noun

1. any of the members of a class of speech sounds that, taken together, are commonly felt to be a phoneme, as the t- sounds of toe, stow, tree, hatpin, catcall, cats, catnip, button, metal, city; a speech sound constituting one of the phonetic manifestations or variants of a particular phoneme.

Origin of allophone

First recorded in 1930-35; allo- + phone²