phonetic
Relating to the sounds of spoken language.
Other meanings
Relating to phones (as opposed to phonemes).
Relating to the spoken rather than written form of a word or name, as opposed to orthographic.
“All unfamiliar names have been transcribed in phonetic spelling.”
Related words
- antiphonetic
- dysphonetic
- ideophonetic
- morphophonetic
- nonphonetic
- phoneticism
- phoneticist
- phoneticize
- prephonetic
- sociophonetic
- unphonetic
- international phonetic alphabet
Word history
From Ancient Greek "φωνητῐκός".
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “phonetic” on Wiktionary, by its contributors, published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.