near-minimal pair love

near-minimal pair

Definitions

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun linguistics A pair of words differing by a few (but more than one) phonetic segments or suprasegments, used to suggest a proposed phoneme, toneme, or chroneme may be valid.

Etymologies

Sorry, no etymologies found.

Support

Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word near-minimal pair.

Examples

    Sorry, no example sentences found.

Comments

Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.