Phonetic Alphabet Definition

noun
A set of symbols used in phonetic transcription, having a separate symbol for every speech sound that can be distinguished.
Webster's New World
Any of various systems of code words for identifying letters in voice communication.
American Heritage
Synonyms:
  • sound alphabet

Other Word Forms of Phonetic Alphabet

Noun

Singular:
phonetic alphabet
Plural:
phonetic alphabets

Phonetic Alphabet Sentence Examples

  • Here are 10 ideas for teaching pronunciation using the phonetic alphabet.

  • Thence the difficulty of substituting our phonetic alphabet for the ideographic characters of the Chinese, as well as for the ideophonetic writing partly borrowed by the Annamese from the letters of the celestial empire.

  • Chinese writing is a writing system that uses symbols to represent different concepts; it is not a phonetic alphabet.

  • All the words of the phonetic alphabet have been hidden in the grid below.

  • You should be familiar with the standard international phonetic alphabet as shown in Table 9-1.

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Words Starting With

PPHPHO

Words Ending With

TETBET

Unscrambles

phonetic alphabet

Words Starting With P and Ending With T

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