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International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) is applied to represent the English language.

See International Phonetic Alphabet for English for a more complete version and Pronunciation respelling for English for phonetic transcriptions used in different dictionaries.

{| class="wikitable"
! colspan=2| IPA: English Consonants
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!width="20%"| IPA !! Examples
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| pen, spin, tip
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| but, web
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| two, sting, bet
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| do, odd
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| chair, nature, teach
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| gin, joy, edge
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| cat, kill, skin, queen, thick
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| go, get, beg
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| fool, enough, leaf
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| voice, have
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| thing, teeth
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| this, breathe, father
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| see, city, pass
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| zoo, rose
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| she, sure, emotion, leash
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| pleasure, beige
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| ham
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| man, ham
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| no, tin
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| singer, ring
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| left, bell
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| run, very Although the symbol technically represents an alveolar trill, which is absent from most dialects of English, it is nevertheless widely used instead of in phonemic transcriptions.
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| we
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| yes
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| whatSome accents, such as Scottish and much of the American South; see whine and wine and voiceless labiovelar approximant
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!
| loch (Scottish)
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{| class="wikitable"
! colspan=4| IPA: English Vowels
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! colspan=3| IPA !! Examples
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! RP !! GenAm !! AuE !!
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! !! !!
| father
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! !! !!
| see
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! !! !!
| city
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! !! !!
| bed Often transcribed for RP, for example in Collins English Dictionary.
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! !! !!
| bird
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! !! !!
| lad, cat, ran Often transcribed for RP, for example in dictionaries of the Oxford University Press.See bad-lad split for more discussion of this vowel in Australian English.
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! !! !!
| arm
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! !! !!
| run, enough
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! !! !!
| not, wasp
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! !! !!
| law, caught See low back merger for more discussion of this vowel in American English.
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! !! !!
| put
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! !! !!
| soon, through
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! !! !!
| about
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! !! !!
| winner
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| style="background: #ffffff" colspan="4" |
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! colspan=4| IPA: English Diphthongs
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! colspan=3| IPA!! Examples
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! RP !! GenAm !! AuE !!
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! !! or !!
| day
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! !! !!
| my
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! !! !!
| boy
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! !! or !!
| no
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! !! !!
| now
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! !! !!
| near, here
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! !! !!
| hair, there Alternative symbols used in British dictionaries are (Oxford University Press) and .
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! !! !!
| tour
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! !! !!
| pupil
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{| class="wikitable"
! colspan=3| IPA: Other symbols used in transcription of English pronunciation
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! IPA!! Explanation
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!
| Primary stress (placed before the stressed syllable), for example happy
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| Secondary stress, for example battleship
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| Syllable separator, for example sawing
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| Syllabic consonant, for example for ridden
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