Standard Phonetic Signs Converter

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Type one or more English words in the box below, then press Convert.

Each word is spelled out in big colored letters — the color shows the type of sound. The signs shown are Standard Phonetic Signs, not IPA, so they are easy for your students to read.

The accent mark on a vowel shows its stress: ´ (acute) = primary stress, ` (grave) = secondary stress. No mark means unstressed.

Click the word itself to see its meaning, IPA, and audio. Save words to your 📓 Notebook to study later.

Tip: Unstressed vowels and voiced consonants share the same blue color. Primary-stressed vowels (red) are the loudest part of the word; secondary-stressed vowels (pink) are medium-strength.

Primary stressRed · accent ´

Secondary stressPink · accent `

Unstressed vowelBlue

Voiced consonantBlue

Voiceless consonantLight blue

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Enter words above to see their phonetic signs.

ə	about, item, button, useful, April, woman
a	at, apple, add, pad, laugh, half, salmon
aa	father, palm
ay	day, date, rail, obey, eight, rein, sleight
e	egg, pen, export, any, heir
ee	eel, key, library, bean, ski, machine, caffeine, (+r: ear, year, near)
i	it, English, express, women, direct, system
ī	ice, sky, pie, light, height, type, sleight, direct
o	odd, hot, what, pod, wander
ō	open, boat, note, bowl, though
aw	golf, ought, saw, tall, caught, auto, boss, thought
u	up, oven, touch, wonder, enough, rough
oo	school, rule, suit, soup, chew, through, fruit
ōō	good, wool, cook, woman, should
ow	owl, out, sound, cow, crowd
oy	oil, oyster, boy, moist
aar	car, arm, large, hard, guard, sergeant
awr	court, corn, warm, door, sword
ur	urge, earn, word, world, bird, thorough, herb

b, bb	but, ribbon
d, dd	do, ladder
g, gg	go, giggle, ghost
j	juice, pigeon, message, bridge
v, vv	very, savvy, of, have
z, zz	zoo, blizzard, jazz, is, his
zh	vision, luxury, casual, massage
th	this, that, they, there, than, clothe
hw	when, where, what, which, wheel
w	wet, wine, (when, where, what, which)
m, mm	mother, hammer, ham, some
n, nn	not, nurse, funny, man, know, knock
ng	song, doing, pink
y	yes, year, yellow
l, ll	let, silly, table, plan, black, club, glad
r, rr	road, carry, fry, wrong
ər	theater, collar, color
yə	union, million, onion, valuable, cellular
yoo	valuable, evaluate, music, juice

p, pp	pen, happy, uphold
t, tt*	tell, bet, butter, latter
k	key, thick, tech, class
ch	chin, match, question, tincture
f, ff	fond, differ, graph, physical, laugh, if
s, ss	say, lesson, ice, see
sh	sheep, cash, tension, mission, nation, she
th	thin, both
h	hat, her

ə	about, item, button, useful, April, woman
a	at, apple, add, pad, laugh, half, salmon
aa	father, palm
ā	day, date, rail, obey, eight, rein, sleight
e	egg, pen, export, any, (+r: air, heir, care, bear)
ē	eel, key, library, bean, ski, machine, caffeine, (+r: ear, year, near)
i	it, English, express, women, direct, system
ī	ice, sky, pie, light, height, type, sleight, direct
o	odd, hot, what, pod, wander
ō	open, boat, note, bowl, though
aw	golf, ought, saw, tall, caught, auto, boss, thought
u	up, oven, touch, wonder, enough, rough
ū	school, rule, suit, soup, chew, through, fruit
ʊ	good, wool, cook, woman, should
ow	owl, out, sound, cow, crowd
oy	oil, oyster, boy, moist
aar	car, arm, large, hard, guard, sergeant
awr	court, corn, warm, door, sword
ur	urge, earn, word, world, bird, thorough, herb

b, bb	but, ribbon
d, dd	do, ladder
g, gg	go, giggle, ghost
j	juice, pigeon, message, bridge
v, vv	very, savvy, of, have
z, zz	zoo, blizzard, jazz, is, his
zh	vision, luxury, casual, massage
th	this, that, they, there, than, clothe
hw	when, where, what, which, wheel
w	wet, wine, (when, where, what, which)
m, mm	mother, hammer, ham, some
n, nn	not, nurse, funny, man, know, knock
ng	song, doing, pink
y	yes, year, yellow
l, ll	let, silly, table, plan, black, club, glad
r, rr	road, carry, fry, wrong
ər	theater, collar, color
yə	union, million, onion, valuable, cellular
yū	valuable, evaluate, music, juice

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