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Phonics vs Photics - What's the difference?

phonics | photics |

As nouns the difference between phonics and photics

is that phonics is the study of how the sounds of words are represented by spelling while photics is the science of light.

phonics

English

Noun

(wikipedia phonics) (-)
  • The study of how the sounds of words are represented by spelling.
  • A method of teaching elementary reading based on the phonetic interpretation of normal spelling.
  • Phonetics.

    • Anagrams

    *

    photics

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • The science of light.
    • (Knight)

    Usage notes

    * A general term sometimes employed when (optics) is restricted to light as producing vision. (Webster 1913)