Phonetically

//fəˈnɛtɪkli// adv

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Definitions

Adverb
  1. 1
    In the way it sounds, particularly: written to describe the sound rather than the dictionary spelling.

    "The hard words in the passage have been spelled phonetically."

Adverb
  1. 1
    by phonetics wordnet

Example

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"Esperanto is written phonetically with an alphabet of 28 letters."

Etymology

From phonetic + -ally.

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