speech sound

Questions about speech sound

What does speech sound mean?

speech sound means "(phonetics) an individual sound unit of speech without concern as to whether or not it is a phoneme of some language".

What is another word for speech sound?

Close synonyms include phone, sound. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is speech sound a common word?

speech sound is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.