phoneticize
Americanverb (used with object)
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to represent (speech) in writing by means of a system in which individual symbols correspond regularly with speech sounds.
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to increase the regularity of correspondence between sound and symbol in (a writing system).
a proposal for a new system of phoneticized English spelling.
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ENGLISH, IMPERIAL: Emperor Chang's regularized version of a combination of American and British English, with phoneticized spelling and somewhat modified vocabulary.
From Concordance A Terran Empire concordance by Ann Wilson
He reads and writes by tapping with his paw, in accordance with an alphabet which, it appears, he has thought out for himself; and his spelling also is simplified and phoneticized to the utmost.
From The Unknown Guest by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos
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