phoneticize

phoneticize
phoneticization, n.
/feuh net"euh suyz', foh-/, v.t., phoneticized, phoneticizing.
1. to represent (speech) in writing by means of a system in which individual symbols correspond regularly with speech sounds.
2. to increase the regularity of correspondence between sound and symbol in (a writing system): a proposal for a new system of phoneticized English spelling.
Also, esp. Brit., phoneticise.
[PHONETIC + -IZE]

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