phonetically
In the way it sounds, particularly: written to describe the sound rather than the…In the way it sounds, particularly: written to describe the sound rather than the dictionary spelling.
» Why not make English spelled phonetically?
DJ_Saidez · Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FRMeaning
1 sensesIn the way it sounds, particularly: written to describe the sound rather than the dictionary spelling.
The hard words in the passage have been spelled phonetically.
- by phonetics
Examples
4 sentencesWhy not make English spelled phonetically?
Esperanto is written phonetically with an alphabet of 28 letters.
ruЭсперанто организован по фонетическому принципу, с алфавитом из 28-и букв. — shanghainese
Would English be phonetically consistent if we added accents on every word, each one always giving a consistent pronunciation?
A text in Esperanto is written phonetically using an alphabet of 28 letters.
Translations
5 languagesForms
more phonetically, most phonetically| Comparative | more phonetically Lesson |
|---|---|
| Superlative | most phonetically |
regular
Word family
2 related wordsLessons for this word
2 lessons- A2Comparatives — Because it has a comparative form
- A2Adverbs of manner — Because it is an -ly adverb
See also
neighbours in the dictionaryDictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.