Definition of Phonetic

relating to the sounds of speech

Examples of Phonetic in a sentence

The teacher helped the student with his phonetic errors and soon he was able to correctly sound out most words starting with the letter “r”.  🔊

The English language has several different phonetic categories that help separate speech sounds.  🔊

Because his phonetic pronunciation was off, it sounded like Trey was saying “li-beary” when he read the word “library.”  🔊

While the students read aloud, Mrs. Lewis listens and corrects any phonetic mistakes they make.  🔊

A phonetic workbook was used by the tutor to help the kindergartener learn all of the sounds of the alphabet.  🔊

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