Nonphonetic

adj

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Not phonetic. not-comparable

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"In my North American fifth-grade class, a teacher introduced us students to some basic French vocabulary and phrases. I found French a strange language with nonphonetic spelling, like English. My native Tagalog, which I learned in the Philippines, uses phonetic spelling."

Etymology

From non- + phonetic.

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