eli5 What is the word for a vowel and a consonant?

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What I mean is, if I were to make a list of them, what would I name the list?
What’s a word for both of them?
Sorry if this is silly but I have trouble looking stuff like this up. Thanks for your time!
Edit: Thanks everyone! I think the word I was looking for was “phoneme”.
Sorry, I probably didn’t ask this clearly enough I was trying to find the word for the types of letters.

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If you mean the symbols we use in English to represent both vowels and consonants it would be “Letters”.

If you mean vowel sounds and consonant sounds, together they are “Phonemes”.

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