speech sound

1. 1.

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

   Synonymsphonesound

   Broaderlanguage unit

   Narrowerphonemevowelsemivowelconsonantorinasal phonesonant

   Part ofutterance

   phonetics

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.