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pronunciation spellings

pronunciation spellings is the plural of pronunciation spelling.

Meaning of pronunciation spelling

Noun

pronunciation spelling (countable and uncountable, plural pronunciation spellings)

  1. A spelling intended to represent a pronunciation, which may or may not be the standard spelling of the word.
    • A word of almost phonetic composition is one in which the pronunciation spelling uses exactly the same letters in the precise order of the correct spelling of the word, but one of the vowels used to represent a particular sound may be interchanged with some different vowel letter and still not...1954, Ira Edward Aaron, The Relationship of Auditory-visual Discrimination to Spelling Ability, page 6

Questions about pronunciation spellings

What is pronunciation spellings the plural of?
Pronunciation spellings is the plural of pronunciation spelling.

Words near pronunciation spellings in the dictionary

  1. pronunciation dictionaries
  2. pronunciation dictionary
  3. pronunciation respelling
  4. pronunciation respellings
  5. pronunciation spelling
  6. pronunciation spellings
  7. pronunciational
  8. pronunciations
  9. pronunciative
  10. pronunciator
  11. pronunciators

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Adapted from Wiktionary: pronunciation spellings (page history and authors); pronunciation spelling (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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