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Etymology
minimal + pair

Noun
minimal pair (plural: minimal pairs)

1. linguistics A pair of words differing by only one phonetic segment or suprasegment, used to prove the validity of a proposed phoneme, toneme, or chroneme.

Related terms
near-minimal pair

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