phoneticallyadv.

1823 T. Young Acct. Recent Discov. Hieroglyphical Lit. iv. 47 The whole of his syllabic alphabet..was completely inapplicable to the great number of proper names phonetically expressed on the various monuments of Egypt.

1876 T. Hill True Order Stud. 108 Bad spelling..usually arises from an attempt to spell phonetically with the common alphabet.

1903 P. W. Joyce Social Hist. Anc. Ireland I. iv. 79 The Manx language is merely a dialect of Irish, spelled phonetically but otherwise very little altered.

1964 M. A. K. Halliday et al. Ling. Sci. 52 Russian and Italian..have a much closer letter-to-phoneme correspondence. This is what is meant by the observation that these languages are ‘written phonetically’.

2000 S. Salway in R. Middelhurst Teaching Chicken to Swim 160 I explain the system once more, sounding the letters out phonetically as you would to a child.