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# phonetically

«phonetically» in Mova's school dictionary: **In a way that matches the sounds of speech: "Spell it…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adverb (phonetically)

### meaning for a pupil

1) In a way that matches the sounds of speech: "Spell it phonetically" means write it the way it sounds. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/phonetically/#m1)

2) To do with the sounds of words, not their meaning. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/phonetically/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In phonics and spelling lessons, young children often spell words phonetically ("bcoz" for "because"); teachers then show the correct spelling. Reading a word phonetically means sounding it out. Some words (yacht, colonel) cannot be read phonetically.

### examples

- She spelled "because" phonetically as "bcoz". [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/phonetically/#x1)
- Sound the word out phonetically: c-a-t. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/phonetically/#x2)
- "Colonel" is not spelled phonetically at all. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/phonetically/#x3)
- Young children write phonetically at first. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/phonetically/#x4)
- Read the nonsense words phonetically. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/phonetically/#x5)
- Finnish is written almost exactly phonetically. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/phonetically/#x6)

### note

Adverb from phonetic. Spelling: phonetic + ally (not "phoneticly"). Spelling phonetically in tests is usually marked wrong if the real spelling is different.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «phonetically» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/phonetically/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.