phonetician

noun

pho·​ne·​ti·​cian ˌfō-nə-ˈti-shən 

also ˌfä-

: a specialist in phonetics

Examples of phonetician in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Henton would go on to be a phonetician at Apple, working on Siri. — Sarah A. Bell, Smithsonian Magazine, 9 Apr. 2025

The original cast included Rex Harrison as Professor Henry Higgins, an irascible phonetician in Edwardian London who gives speech lessons to a Cockney flower girl, Eliza Doolittle. — Washington Post, 24 Dec. 2021

Lerner and Loewe’s musical comedy confection returns to Broadway with the loverly Lauren Ambrose as the spirited flower seller Eliza Doolittle and Harry Hadden-Paton as her eccentric phonetician, Henry Higgins. — Alexis Soloski, New York Times, 12 Apr. 2018

The linguistics professor, a gentle phonetician, specialized in Turkic tribal dialects. — Elif Batuman, The New Yorker, 23 Jan. 2017

Word History

Etymology

phonet(ic) + -ician

First Known Use

1877, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for phonetician

• abolition
• acquisition
• admonition
• ammunition
• apparition
• apposition
• coalition
• competition
• composition
• definition
• deglutition
• demolition