phonetic alphabet english The Cambridge Dictionary uses the symbols of the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) to show pronunciation in writing. You can recognize these pronunciations by the slashes before and after, for example, /pen/. You can also click on the icons to listen to the pronunciation in UK or US English..
phonetic alphabet quiz The following list contains all the letters of the phonetic alphabet used in Practical English Usage, with examples of the words in which the sounds they refer to are found.
phonetic alphabet printable International Phonetic Alphabet, also called IPA, is an international alphabet used by linguists to accurately represent the wide variety of sounds (phones or phonemes) in human speech. A phoneme is a unit of sound that can distinguish one word from another in a given language.