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phonetic

pho·net·ic
P p

Transcription

    • US Pronunciation
    • US IPA
    • UK Pronunciation
    • UK IPA
    • [fuh-net-ik, foh-]
    • /fəˈnɛt ɪk, foʊ-/
    • /fəˈnet.ɪk/
    • US Pronunciation
    • US IPA
    • [fuh-net-ik, foh-]
    • /fəˈnɛt ɪk, foʊ-/

Definitions of phonetic word

  • adjective phonetic Also, phonetical. of or relating to speech sounds, their production, or their transcription in written symbols. 1
  • adjective phonetic corresponding to pronunciation: phonetic transcription. 1
  • adjective phonetic agreeing with pronunciation: phonetic spelling. 1
  • adjective phonetic 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. 1
  • noun phonetic (in Chinese writing) a written element that represents a sound and is used in combination with a radical to form a character. 1
  • adjective phonetic relating to sounds of speech 1
See all 14 definitions of phonetic

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Origin of phonetic

First appearance:

before 1820
One of the 38% newest English words
1820-30; < New Latin phōnēticus < Greek phōnētikós vocal, equivalent to phōnēt(ós) to be spoken (verbid of phōneîn to speak) + -ikos -ic

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Parts of speech for Phonetic

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Full grammatical hierarchy of Phonetic

phonetic popularity

A common word. It’s meaning is known to most children of preschool age. About 95% of English native speakers know the meaning and use the word.
Most Europeans know this English word. The frequency of it’s usage is somewhere between "mom" and "screwdriver".

phonetic usage trend in Literature

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Synonyms for phonetic

adj phonetic

  • choral — Choral music is sung by a choir.
  • lexical — of or relating to the words or vocabulary of a language, especially as distinguished from its grammatical and syntactical aspects.
  • lingual — of or relating to the tongue or some tonguelike part.
  • linguistic — of or relating to linguistics.
  • vocal — of, relating to, or uttered with the voice: the vocal mechanism; vocal criticism.

adjective phonetic

  • ejaculatory — Of or pertaining to ejaculation.
  • etymological — (not comparable) Of or relating to etymology.
  • intonated — Simple past tense and past participle of intonate.
  • lexemic — Of or relating to a lexeme.
  • operatic — of or relating to opera: operatic music.
All 12 Synonyms of phonetic

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Related words

  • barred i

    a high central vowel with phonetic quality approximating that of the vowels in pit, put, putt, or pet, and considered by most phonologists as a phonetic variant of one of these vowels, depending on the context, but by some as an autonomous phoneme in some varieties of English.

  • international phonetic alphabet

    the set of symbols and modifiers designed, principally on the basis of articulatory considerations, to provide a consistent and universally understood system for transcribing the speech sounds of any language: devised by the International Phonetic Association. Abbreviation: IPA, I.P.A.

  • distinctive feature

    a feature of the sound system of a language that serves as the crucial distinguishing mark between two phonemes, as the distinctive feature of voicing, which distinguishes b from p in English, or nasality, which distinguishes m from b and p.

  • phonography

    phonetic spelling, writing, or shorthand.

  • acrophony

    the use of symbols to represent sounds

  • allophone

    any of several speech sounds that are regarded as contextual or environmental variants of the same phoneme. In English the aspirated initial (p) in pot and the unaspirated (p) in spot are allophones of the phoneme /p/
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