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phonetically

Variant of phonetic

adjective

  1. of speech sounds or the production or transcription of these
  2. of phonetics
  3. conforming to pronunciation: phonetic spelling
  4. of or involving the relatively small differences between related speech sounds, which can be perceived but do not change meaning: the differences between the sounds represented by p in “tip” and “pit” are phonetic, since substituting one for the other would not change the meanings of the two words

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