"pronunciation spelling" meaning in English

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Noun

Audio: En-us-pronunciation spelling.oga [US] Forms: pronunciation spellings [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} pronunciation spelling (countable and uncountable, plural pronunciation spellings)
  1. (countable, uncountable) Spelling intended to represent a pronunciation, which may or may not be the standard spelling of the word. Wikipedia link: pronunciation spelling Tags: countable, uncountable Related terms: eye dialect, spelling pronunciation Translations (pronunciation spelling): ääntämyksen mukainen kirjoitusasu (Finnish), aussprachegetreue Schreibung [feminine] (German), ejtés/kiejtés alapján/szerint/után leírt alak (english: ad hoc) (Hungarian), kiejtés szerinti írásmód (english: system) (Hungarian), kiejtést tükröző írásmód (Hungarian)
    Sense id: en-pronunciation_spelling-en-noun-~1HybrYD Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header

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          "text": "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 change the pronunciation of the word.",
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          "word": "ääntämyksen mukainen kirjoitusasu"
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      "word": "ääntämyksen mukainen kirjoitusasu"
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