allophone

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Noun
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al=lo=phone

WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun allophone has 1 sense

CIDE DICTIONARY

allophonen. 
     any one of two or more speech sounds that considered variants of the same phoneme. For example, the p sounds of pin and spin are allophones of p; and the t sounds of toe stop and catnip are allophones of t.  [PJC]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

allophone, n. Linguistics any of the variant sounds forming a single phoneme.

Derivative
allophonic adj.
Etymology
ALLO- + PHONEME

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