phonetic

Meanings

Plural: phonetics

Adjective

of or relating to speech sounds
- "phonetic transcription"
of or relating to the scientific study of speech sounds
- "phonetic analysis"

Adj

Relating to the sounds of spoken language.
Relating to phones (as opposed to phonemes).
Relating to the spoken rather than written form of a word or name, as opposed to orthographic.

Noun

In such writing systems as the Chinese writing system, the portion of a phono-semantic character that provides an indication of its pronunciation; contrasted with semantic (which is usually the radical).

Origin / Etymology

Borrowed from Latin phōnēticus, from Ancient Greek φωνητῐκός (phōnētĭkós). By surface analysis, phone + -etic.

Synonyms

phonic

Scrabble Score: 15

phonetic is a valid Scrabble (US) TWL word
phonetic is a valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
phonetic is a valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 17

phonetic is a valid Words With Friends word