IPA Symbols

eɪ

bake, age, may

oʊ

rose, oak, boat, go

aɪ

tie, ice, find, by

ə

about, alphabet, sofa (schwa)

aʊ

how, out, count, now

ɔɪ

boy, oil, foil, toy

ɚ

butter, urbane, terrain (schwar, unstressed)

ɪ

win, dip, did, bit, prick, bin, pitch

ɝ

bird, earth, pearl (reversed hooked epsilon, stressed)

ɛ

red, head, den, pet, net (epsilon)

ɑ

cod, cot, not, don, mod (closed a)

i

key, deep, beat, peak, bead, mean

ɔ

law, caught, naught, hawks (open o)

æ

had, ban, cat, lack, mad, Dan (ash)

e

rebAte

o

okay

u

moon, pool

ʊ

wood, pull (upsilon, horseshoe)

ʃ

ship (esh)

dʒ

join

ʒ

beige (ezh)

ð

them (eth)

tʃ

chew

θ

think (theta)

p

pork

b

bug

t

to

d

dog

k

king

g

go

m

mad

n

name

v

vote

f

for

s

say

z

zoo

h

hen

w

wise

j

yet

r

row

l

let

ʌ

bud (caret, stressed)

ŋ

riNG (hooked n, eng)

ʔ

uh-oh, batman

ɾ

butter (alveolar flap)