American English Phonetic Alphabet
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/i/ as in “heed”
High front unrounded tense vowel
/ɪ/ as in “hid”
High front unrounded lax vowel
/e/ as in “hay”
Mid front unrounded tense vowel
/ɛ/ as in “head”
Mid front unrounded lax vowel
/æ/ as in “had”
Low front unrounded tense vowel
/ɑ/ as in “hot”
Low back unrounded tense vowel
/ɔ/ as in “haw”
Mid back rounded lax vowel
/o/ as in “hole”
Mid back rounded tense vowel
/ʊ/ as in “hood”
High back rounded lax vowel
/u/ as in “hoot”
High back rounded tense vowel
/ɨ/ as in “horses”
High central unrounded vowel
/ʌ/ as in “hut”
Mid central unrounded tense vowel
/ə/ as in “harmony”
Mid central lax vowel (schwa)
/ɝ/ as in “hurt”
Mid central tense rhotic vowel
/ɚ/ as in “heater”
Mid central lax rhotic vowel
/uɹ/ as in “cure”
High back rhotic diphthong
/oɹ/ as in “horse”
Mid back rhotic diphthong
/ɑɹ/ as in “hard”
Low central rhotic diphthong
/eɹ/ as in “hair”
Mid front rhotic diphthong
/iɹ/ as in “hear”
High front rhotic diphthong
/ɑɪɹ/ as in “hire”
Low back unround tense to high front unround la rhotic diphthong
/ɑɪ/ as in “hi”
Low back unround tense to high front unround lax diphthong
/ɑʊ/ as in “how”
Low back unround tense to high back rounded lax diphthong
/ɔɪ/ as in “coy”
Mid back rounded to high front unrounded lax diphthong
/ju/ as in “hue”
High back rounded tense diphthong
/oʊ/ as in “hole”
Mid back rounded tense diphthong
/eɪ/ as in “hay”
Mid front unrounded tense diphthong
/p/ as in “pie”
Voiceless bilabial stop
/t/ as in “tie”
Voiceless alveolar stop
/k/ as in “kite”
Voiceless velar stop
/b/ as in “buy”
Voiced bilabial stop
/d/ as in “die”
Voiced alveolar stop
/g/ as in “guy”
Voiced velar stop
/m/ as in “my”
Bilabial nasal
/n/ as in “night”
Alveolar nasal
/ŋ/ as in “sing”
Velar nasal
/f/ as in “fine”
Voiceless labiodental fricative
/v/ as in “vine”
Voiced labiodental fricative
/θ/ as in “thigh”
Voiceless interdental fricative
/ð/ as in “thy”
Voiced interdental fricative
/s/ as in “sigh”
Voiceless alveolar fricative
/z/ as in “zine”
Voiced alveolar fricative
/ʃ/ as in “shy”
Voiceless palatoalveolar fricative
/ʒ/ as in “lesion”
Voiced palatoalveolar fricative
/h/ as in “hi”
Voiceless glottal fricative
/t͡ʃ/ as in “chai”
Voiceless palatoalveolar affricate
/d͡ʒ/ as in “jive”
Voiced palatoalveolar affricate
/ɹ/ as in “rye”
Coronal approximant
/l/ as in “lie”
Alveolar lateral approximant
/w/ as in “why”
Labial-dorsal approximant
/j/ as in year
Palatal approximant
