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phoneticise

phoneticise is the alternative form of phoneticize.

Meaning of phoneticize

Verb

phoneticize (third-person singular simple present phoneticizes, present participle phoneticizing, simple past and past participle phoneticized)

  1. (transitive) To spell by phonetic script.
    • He phoneticizes his given name, Ippolito, into Tibetan.2017, Donald S. Lopez Jr., Dispelling the Darkness
    Synonyms:
    phonetize
  2. (transitive) To change (spelling) so that it is more phonetic (transparent) (see Orthographic depth).

Forms of phoneticise

third-person singular presentphoneticises
present participlephoneticising
past participlephoneticised
pastphoneticised

Questions about phoneticise

What is phoneticise the alternative form of?
Phoneticise is the alternative form of phoneticize.

Words near phoneticise in the dictionary

  1. phonetical
  2. phonetically
  3. phonetician
  4. phoneticians
  5. phoneticisation
  6. phoneticise
  7. phoneticised
  8. phoneticises
  9. phoneticising
  10. phoneticism
  11. phoneticist

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Adapted from Wiktionary: phoneticise (page history and authors); phoneticize (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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