near-minimal pair
near-minimal pair · near-minimal pairs
A pair of words differing by a few phonetic segments or suprasegments, used to suggest…A pair of words differing by a few (but more than one) phonetic segments or suprasegments, used to suggest a proposed phoneme, toneme, or chroneme may be valid.
Meaning
1 sensesA pair of words differing by a few (but more than one) phonetic segments or suprasegments, used to suggest a proposed phoneme, toneme, or chroneme may be valid.