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In phonology, minimal pairs are pairs of words or phrases in a particular language, which differ in only one phonological element, such as a phone, phoneme, toneme or chroneme and have distinct meaning.

An example is comb and rome. The phonemic transcription of comb is [komb] and the phonemic transcription of rome is [rown]. Therefor this pair of words constitute a minimal pair: initial consonant.

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In phonology, minimal pairs are pairs of words or phrases in a particular language, which differ in only one phonological element, such as a phone, phoneme, toneme or chroneme and have distinct meaning.

An example is comb and rome. The phonemic transcription of comb is [komb] and the phonemic transcription of rome is [rown]. Therefor this pair of words constitute a minimal pair: initial consonant.

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According to SOWPODS (the combination of Scrabble dictionaries used around the world) there are 4 words with the pattern -O--ME. That is, six letter words with 2nd letter O and 5th letter M and 6th letter E. In alphabetical order, they are:

moneme

mousme

toneme

volume

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According to SOWPODS (the combination of Scrabble dictionaries used around the world) there are 7 words with the pattern --N-ME. That is, six letter words with 3rd letter N and 5th letter M and 6th letter E. In alphabetical order, they are:

agname

bename

byname

genome

moneme

rename

toneme

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According to SOWPODS (the combination of Scrabble dictionaries used around the world) there are 2 words with the pattern -ON-ME. That is, six letter words with 2nd letter O and 3rd letter N and 5th letter M and 6th letter E. In alphabetical order, they are:

moneme

toneme

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According to SOWPODS (the combination of Scrabble dictionaries used around the world) there are 1 words with the pattern T-N-ME. That is, six letter words with 1st letter T and 3rd letter N and 5th letter M and 6th letter E. In alphabetical order, they are:

toneme

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