fonema
Portuguese, noun/foˈnẽ.mɐ/
fonema is spelled F-O-N-E-M-A (6 letters) and appears about once in every 6 million words in written Portuguese, the 76,181st most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Fonema is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “phoneme (contrastive indivisible unit)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “qualquer som elementar da linguagem articulada”.
What does fonema mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinephoneme (contrastive indivisible unit)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. qualquer som elementar da linguagem articulada
The definition in the Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), in Portuguese.
Source: Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of fonema
- fonemas plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce fonema?
- Brazil /foˈnẽ.mɐ/
- Portugal /fuˈne.mɐ/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to fonema
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is fonema in Portuguese?
fonema appears about once in every 6 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).