IPA flashcards

A complete set of vocabulary practice flashcards for the International Phonetic Alphabet symbols in American English.

/p/

Unvoiced Bilabial Plosive

Words: deep sheep, cheap seat lift sip ship tip hip nip

/b/

Voiced Bilabial Plosive

Words: nib rib, cab stab jab ab job sob cobb fob, rob

/t/

Unvoiced Alveolar Plosive

Words: seat meat greet feet meat pit sit hit bit lit fit

/d/

Voiced Alveolar Plosive

Words: seed feed weed lead bed red grid head made raid

/k/

Unvoiced Velar Plosive

Words: seek beak leak pic, tick stick, lick, tick lick wake

/g/

Voiced Velar Plosive

Words: bag, rag bag, pig, dig jig, vague bag, bag egg peg

/m/

Voiced Bilabial Nasal

Words: aim lame fame theme team ham lamb ram glam them

/n/

Voiced Alveolar Nasal

Words: can pan fan plan cane pain rain stain mane train

/ŋ/

Voiced Velar Nasal

Words :sing king hang bang, sang rang hanged banged length strength

/f/

Unvoiced Labiodental Fricative

Words: graph morph beef, deaf raft elf golf, cuff, cough laugh

/v/

Voiced Labiodental Fricative

Words: view visit vulture view, very vivid vacant, valid velvet volume

/ɵ/

Unvoiced Dental Fricative

Words: birth death earth, mouth oath path south truth youth worth

/ð/

Voiced Dental Fricative

Words: bathe, loath, soothe, rise, scathing, father, mother, brother they them

/s/

Unvoiced Alveolar Fricative

Words: glass house ice kiss mass has peace this us voice

/z/

Voiced Alveolar Fricative

Words: choose exercise news rose size suppose use was waves caused

ʃ

Unvoiced Postalveolar Fricative

Words: flush, fish, harsh, punish, anxious, action, ashamed, caution, delicious, especially

/ʒ/

Voiced Postalveolar Fricative

Words: prestige Mirage corsage, barrage, seizure, pleasure measure genre zhuzh genre

/h/

Unvoiced Glottal Fricative

Words: heap him heavy, huge humid human huge humor habit half

/ɹ/

Voiced Alveolar Approximant

Words: rhyme wrap rate raven reach reflect rise river road rung

/j/

Voiced Palatal Approximant

Words: yes, yard year yellow yield yarn yolk yet youth New York

/l/ or /ɫ/

Voiced Lateral Approximant

Words: lean leaf lift left lock Lloyd lawn loose lame loud

/w/

Voiced Labio-Velar Approximant

Words: woodworm wild water work weight once wonder welcome always awake bewilder

/ʧ/

Unvoiced Alveolar Affricate

Words: beach each catch glitch pitch rich stitch watch patch speech

/ʤ/

Voiced Alveolar Affricate

Words: age bridge college edge, knowledge, judge, marriage, page wedge adjust