Minimal Pair Finder
What is a minimal pair? Phoneticians and phonologists use the term minimal pair to refer to a pair of words that differ in just one sound. Minimal pairs are important because they prove that two sounds are phonologically relevant for the language in question and can create a difference in meaning.
Minimal Pair Finder can help teachers, researchers, students and language learners looking for such pairs of words. Bear in mind that this tool relies on:
[1] lists of words coming from big text corpora and
[2] automatic transcriptions of such words.
This means that unfortunately it can make mistakes, and for this reason it may not be ideal as a method of unsupervised pronunciation learning.
Minimal Pair Finder
Select language:
Select phoneme 1:
Select phoneme 2:
Search