Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

phonetic name

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.02 in modern English

Syllables: pho-net-ic -name
IPA

21

Scrabble Score

12

Letters

4

Syllables

10

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A name as it is thought to have been pronounced, rather than how it is commonly written. Used with languages such as Epigraphic Mayan where the conventional transcription of the name does not reflect the pronunciation.

noun

A name written in phonographic rather than logographic characters, as in Egyptian.

noun

In electronic applications such as address books, an entry that allows a name to be looked up through pronunciation rather than spelling

Example Sentences

"The phonetic name of Smoking Frog is Ciak Kʼak"
"The cartouche contained the titles and phonetic name of Rameses"

Inflected Forms

phonetic names (plural)

Questions

What does phonetic name mean?: A name as it is thought to have been pronounced, rather than how it is commonly written. Used with languages such as Epigraphic Mayan where the conventional transcription of the name does not reflect the pronunciation.

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