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phonetically

Definition, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for phonetically.

Editorial note

Note to developers, exclude similar letters from your alphabet when generating passwords or spell them out phonetically.

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Quick take

In the way it sounds, particularly: written to describe the sound rather than the dictionary spelling.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of phonetically gathered in one view.

adverb

In the way it sounds, particularly: written to describe the sound rather than the dictionary spelling.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for phonetically.

adverb

In the way it sounds, particularly: written to describe the sound rather than the dictionary spelling.

Example sentences

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Note to developers, exclude similar letters from your alphabet when generating passwords or spell them out phonetically.

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English pronunciation leads to algorithms like Soundex [1], which just wouldn't seem necessary if words were written purely phonetically.

3

You learn to speak in shorter chains, and also to make the commands phonetically distinct.

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But you don't have to use a steno keyboard or a pre-defined steno system to type words phonetically nor to create macros.

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So while you can write phonetically as in Latin, the written language retains a high level of morphological information and things feel very Lego-like.

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Some words are pronounced phonetically and some as fragments of the words they were abbreviated or concatenated from; who's to say which is correct?

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I really don't understand why educators persist in trying to teach English reading and writing phonetically.

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Children, especially those who have not yet started to read, have very small vocabularies and learn words phonetically from those that speak to them.

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It's true that Japanese (and the other minor Japonic languages) borrows a lot of Chinese vocabulary but grammatically and phonetically they have practically nothing in common.

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This is the security concern where you have two glyphs that are graphically similar but phonetically completely different, but can easily be mistaken for each other.

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If M$ could have had issues over phonetically rhyming domain name and take the kid to court, why not plurk taking microsoft into court for something serious.

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I'm told that Italian, for example, has such a regularity that pretty much every word is spelled phonetically, so guessing the spelling always works.

Quote examples

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I wonder if Amazon's automated system would flag something like "Riddley Walker" where, in the future, words have changed meaning and are spelled phonetically.

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For example, now in Argentina we usually say "ciudá" instead of "ciudad" (phonetically "see-oo-DA" instad of "see-oo-DAD").

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> You’re also more likely to [phonetically] reduce words > if they’re predictable in the context, so that the word > fine would be pronounced less distinctly in a sentence > like “You’re going to be just fine” than “The last word > in this sentence is fine.” If pronouncing words less distinctly isn't mumbling, what is it?

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S: Speaking of representation, the script the OP talks of, belongs to the set of phonetically accurate scripts; one which while being populated mostly by Indic scripts, is given - quite disgracefully - the name "abugida", after a lone Semitic script - "Geez" - from Ethiopia - which ironically is probably derived from one of the Indic ones.

Frequently asked questions

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How do you use phonetically in a sentence?

Note to developers, exclude similar letters from your alphabet when generating passwords or spell them out phonetically.

What does phonetically mean?

In the way it sounds, particularly: written to describe the sound rather than the dictionary spelling.

What part of speech is phonetically?

phonetically is commonly used as adverb.