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Phonemes, letters and allophones. A phoneme is a single unit of sound that has meaning in any language. There are 44 phonemes in English (in the standard British model), each one representing a different sound a person can make. Since there are only 26 letters in the alphabet, sometimes letter combinations need to be used to make a phoneme.
Quite simply, phonemes are speech sounds. They are not segments of words like syllables are. An example of a phoneme is the /t/ sound in the words tip, stand, water, and cat. Although they appear to be the same sound, they are not, because in each word they are pronounced slightly differently. In the word eight there are just two phonemes - eigh / t.