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phonics

/ˈfɒnɪks/ · noun

Meaning

  1. The study of how the sounds of words are represented by spelling.
  2. A method of teaching elementary reading based on the phonetic interpretation of normal spelling.
  3. Phonetics.
  4. Acoustics.

Etymology / origin

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Sources

  1. DictionaryAPI.dev English dictionary data
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