If we're going for accuracy, your statement would have to explain how it goes for other situations, for instance: - words spoken by toddlers: what's the spelli

If we're going for accuracy, your statement would have to explain how it goes for other situations, for instance: - words spoken by toddlers: what's the spelling of a word that doesn't exist outside of a kid's brain ? In particular parents can accept it as a word without ever setting an associated writing. - written words that don't have a pronounciation: typically Latin is dead and how any of it is pronounced is up to how we feel about it. That's without going into words with phonems unrelated to their written form (XIV as fourteen for instance) and I assume there will be words that exchange spelling and pronounciation with others. Languages are plenty weird, we should embrace their weirdity IMHO.