phonetically
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- adverb
- /fəˈnɛtɪkli/
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fonéticamente
- To improve your pronunciation, it is helpful to learn the words phonetically, so you can understand their sounds better.
- phonetically regular
- phonetically spelled
- phonetically regular words
And it's VO Laytar, and it's broke down phonetically for us and my mum, Izzy.
- And it's VO Laytar, and it's broke down phonetically for us and my mum, Izzy.
- He spelled it phonetically, or as he would write phonetically.
- They're like tap, TEP gap, you know, GEP, they're phonetically and linguistically matched.
- I always enjoy when writers will write kind of phonetically so that when you're reading it in your head, you hear the Scottish accent.
- But yeah, it's phonetically how you say my last name.
- I don't speak French, so I had to learn a little bit of it phonetically just so I could kind of get recognize the words.
Examples
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I don't speak French, so I had to learn a little bit of it phonetically just so I could kind of get recognize the words.
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Also, students' responses were recorded as correct when they either phonetically sounded out words or read the words correctly as sight words.
Academic text (2002) -
But yeah, it's phonetically how you say my last name.
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I'll just write that phonetically.
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Thank you, Jeff, for phonetically clarifying your name.
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I always enjoy when writers will write kind of phonetically so that when you're reading it in your head, you hear the Scottish accent.
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Contexts used for assessment included counting, phonetically balanced sentences, and conversation.
Academic text (2015) -
Can Siri not return an alternative list of people who have similar names, either phonetically or alphabetically?
Blog text (33) -
It's correct phonetically.
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And they're singing Ein Keloheinu, which I actually had to teach them how to sing phonetically.
Synonyms
Using sound or speech to give information
In a way that focuses on single speech sounds like consonants and vowels
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word phonetically comes from the Greek root phon- meaning 'sound' or 'voice', the same root you see in telephone and headphone. So to do something phonetically is to do it 'by sound' or 'according to speech sounds', not by how it is written.