Phonotactics Definition

fōnə-tăktĭks
noun
The set of allowed arrangements or sequences of speech sounds in a given language. A word beginning with the consonant cluster (zv), for example, violates the phonotactics of English, but not of Russian.
American Heritage

A branch of phonology that deals with the restrictions a language applies to combinations of phonemes.

Wiktionary

Origin of Phonotactics

  • phono– tactics arrangement of linguistic units tactics

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition