A single phoneme indicates a word, so a "word" indicates a sentence.

The word thin begins with a single consonant phoneme represented by two consonant letters.

Two words that differ in meaning through a contrast of a single phoneme are called minimal pairs.

The Lithuanian writing system is largely phonemic, i.e., one letter usually corresponds to a single phoneme (sound).

A pair of letters designating a single phoneme is called a digraph.

In phonetics an allophone is one of different ways that a single phoneme may be pronounced.

The suggested solution to this problem was to use the symbol, which does not represent any single phoneme; a similar proposal was made for.

In practice, the letters "r" and "l" form a single phoneme to native speakers of Motu.

This restricted variation has prompted several authors to postulate a single rhotic phoneme.

Stop germination across morpheme boundaries almost always results in simplification to a single phoneme.