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phonics

Pronunciation: /ˈfɒnɪks/

The English word “phonics” has 4 meanings listed here.

noun

  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

From phon- + -ics.

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