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phonetic names

phonetic names is the plural of phonetic name.

Meaning of phonetic name

Noun

phonetic name (plural phonetic names)

  1. 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.
    • The phonetic name of Smoking Frog is Ciak Kʼak
  2. A name written in phonographic rather than logographic characters, as in Egyptian.
    • The cartouche contained the titles and phonetic name of Rameses
  3. In electronic applications such as address books, an entry that allows a name to be looked up through pronunciation rather than spelling

Questions about phonetic names

What is phonetic names the plural of?
Phonetic names is the plural of phonetic name.

Words near phonetic names in the dictionary

  1. phonetic alphabets
  2. phonetic determinative
  3. phonetic determinatives
  4. phonetic erosion
  5. phonetic name
  6. phonetic names
  7. phonetic spelling alphabet
  8. phonetic spelling alphabets
  9. phonetic symbol
  10. phonetic symbolism
  11. phonetic symbolisms

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Adapted from Wiktionary: phonetic names (page history and authors); phonetic name (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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