International Phonetic Alphabet · UK and US pronunciation

Pronunciation symbols,all on one screen.

Dictionaries write pronunciation between slashes, like . Tap a card to see five more example words.

25 sounds

A colon after a symbol means a long vowel. Cards tagged UK or US exist in only one of the two accents.

Single vowels — one steady mouth position

and triphthongs — the mouth moves

25 sounds

Most sit in voiced and unvoiced pairs made at the same place in the mouth — p and b, s and z, f and v.

— vocal cords on

— vocal cords off

Other sounds

8 sounds

Weak vowels in unstressed syllables, sounds carried in from other languages, and syllables that can be said with or without a vowel.

Other sounds — weak vowels and borrowed sounds

3 marks

These marks are not sounds. They show where a word breaks into syllables and which syllable you push hardest.

Stress and syllable marks