What does "phonetically" mean?

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

Phonetically

Common synonyms include: articulary, articulatorily, ipa-based, phonemically, phoneticized, phonically.

/fəˈnɛtɪkli/ adv

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Adverb

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

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

From phonetic + -ally.