Definitions for phonetic

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phonetic pho·net·ic

Spelling: [fuh-net-ik, foh-]

IPA: /fəˈnɛt ɪk, foʊ-/

Phonetic is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 15 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 323 anagrams from letters in phonetic (cehinopt).

Definitions for phonetic

noun

1. (in Chinese writing) a written element that represents a sound and is used in combination with a radical to form a character.

adjective

1. Also, phonetical. of or relating to speech sounds, their production, or their transcription in written symbols.
2. corresponding to pronunciation:
3. agreeing with pronunciation:
4. concerning or involving the discrimination of nondistinctive elements of a language. In English, certain phonological features, as length and aspiration, are phonetic but not phonemic.

Origin of phonetic

1820-30; New Latin phōnēticus Greek phōnētikós vocal, equivalent to phōnēt(ós) to be spoken (verbid of phōneîn to speak) + -ikos -ic

Examples for phonetic

This phonetic writing furnishes the reading for Nin in Nin-Klgal.

phonetic, made-up lyrics are another venerable tradition of folk music, and “pa-rum-pa-pa-pum” is iconic of the genre.

Every alternate page was in the phonetic Indian symbols, of which more hereafter.

It was not phonetic, nor was it etymological; it was simply Ritsonian.

The use of phonetic transcription, however, is a moot question.

In most cases, indeed, the phonetic reading is unknown or uncertain.

phonetic: sound producing; applied to stridulating structures.

The principle on which the characters are formed is the phonetic.

The sitters also were often in rows—with a slight (phonetic) difference.

I heard the name that time, but I can make no attempt, phonetic or other, to spell it.