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International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) - Vowels 1

 / i / i


i

vowel sound in ‘f i sh’

vowel sound in ‘empt y’

i
vowel sound in ‘f ee t’

fish
dish
wish

empty
guilty
honesty

feet
sheet
sleet

bid
hid
lid

did

rugby

feat
heat
neat
treat

fill
hill
Jill
still
pill
bill
Bill
chill
will
kill

juicy
Lucy

lovely
lily

smelly
jolly
chilly
frilly

Billy
really
pretty
Betty

pit
it
hit
nit
lit
bit
spit
wit

hockey
jockey
movie

Pete
deed
need
feed
speed
lead
knead
heal
steal
deal
peel
heel

wheel
speak
leak

spin
chin
win
tin
gin

peek
cheek

limb

dream
team
steam

list
mist

seen
been

missed

clean

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International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) - Vowels 2

/ ɑ
ɑ
vowel sound in ‘h a t’
hat
cat
fat
mat
spat
chat
gnat
splat
bat
brat
Matt
can
span
man
woman
ban
nan
tan
ran
fan

van
land
hand
stand
band
and
bandstand
handstand
understand
brand
sand
pal
gal
map
chap

vowel sound in ‘c a r’
trap
flap
clap
tap
lap
cap
nap
sap
rap
gap
yap
channel
banner

spanner
manner
tank
prank
spank
sank
thank
bank
shank
yank
thanks
back
slack
hack
sack
shack
tack
knack

car
far
bar
tar
char
par
mar
star
guitar
Qatar
are

hurrah
shah
spa
bra
cha-cha
ta
pa
ask
task
bask
cask
mask
branch

park
hark
mark
Mark
dark
barber
harbour
tart
cart
smart
art
part
dart
mart
heart
chance

dance
prance
lance
advance
stance
father
lather
rather

hard
card
lard
bard
charred
barred
jarred
bark
lark

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International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) - Vowels 3

ɒ / ɔ
ɔ

ɒ
vowel sound in ‘g o t’
got
hot
knot
not
shot
lot
rot
plot
slot
trot
clot
hotpot
cot
jot
pot
sot
tot
salt
halt
Walt
malt
bolt
colt
dolt

vowel sound in ‘o r’
sop
box

fox
cox
off
scoff
on
con
Ron
John
gone
from
sock
knock
rock
clock
shock
dock
wok

vault
fault
moult
stop
top
chop
hop
prop
mop
cop
fop
pop

rob
Bob
sob
cob
job
lob
fob
hob
odd
wad

or
for
nor
pour
four
your
poor
door
pore
sore
more
bore
yore
wore
core
fore
gore
whore

lore
tore
law
jaw
paw
straw
draw
raw
saw
war
oar
hoar

force
talk
walk
chalk
hawk
squawk
pork
York
board
hoard
fought
nought
ought
wart
form
dorm
warm

warn
lawn
prawn
sawn
pawn
torn
forlorn

horse
Norse
coarse

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International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) - Vowels 4

υ / u / u
υ

u

vowel sound in ‘p u t’

vowel sound in ‘sit u ate’

u

vowel sound in ‘t oo’

put

situate

too

soot
foot

situation

hue
cue

book
hook
look
cook
crook
shook
brook
took
rook
wool

education
population
stimulation

calculation
simulation

stew
crew

populate
stimulate
calculate
simulate

boot
loot

educate

full
pull
good
hood

you

route

newt
cute
use
fuse
lose

could
should
would
you’d

bruise
June
dune
moon
soon
doom
room
cool
pool
school
group
soup

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International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) - Vowels 5

ə /
ə
vowel sound in ‘a go’

ago
adore
about
around
annoy
annul

vowel sound in ‘h e r’
unless
president
resident
confident

her
per

learn
earn

stir
fir

turn
burn

whirr

stern
fern

envelope

somebody
nobody

famous

London

royal
loyal

woman

cur
fur

family

heard

boil
coil
foil

motorway

herd
nerd

banana

endless
faithless
harmless

bird

purr

worm
term
perm
firm
shirt
skirt
hurt

computer
heater
under
user
teacher
power
tower
brother
mother
father
sister
daughter

stirred

lurch
church

verse

umbrella

birch

world

the

search

girl

hour

murder

until

girder

furl
hurl

curl

purred
word
curd
turd
perch

pert
first
thirst
worst
worse
curse

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International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) - Vowels 6

e /
e
vowel sound in ‘t e n’
ten
hen
wren
den

men
pen
when
gem
hem
fell
tell
bell
smell
swell
shell
dwell
spell
well
gel
spend
mend
tend
lend
wend
bend
end
trend
wreck
speck
deck
neck
peck
get
met

let

vowel sound in ‘u p’
bet
net
jet
pet
set
vet
debt
help
melt
dwelt
Celt
tense
whence
led
bed
wed
red
Ted
head
lead
edge
hedge
wedge
ledge
egg
beg
Meg

peg
keg
leg

up
cup
sup
pup
mud
thud
bud
stud
cud
blood
flood
rub
hub
club
pub
snub
scrub
cub
tub
but
hut
shut
cut
nut
rut
butt

putt
mutt
luck
duck
muck
chuck
buck
puck
suck

tuck
sun
fun
bun
shun
stun
gun
nun
pun
run
ton
won
son
one
done
gull
mull
dull
lull
cull

honey
money
sunny
funny
bunny
runny
sum
hum
gum
chum
rum
numb
dumb

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International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) - Diphthongs 1

e / əυ
e

əυ

vowel sound in ‘r ai n’

vowel sound in ‘o wn’

rain
train
Spain
lain
gain
main
chain
fain
pain
plane
Jane
cane
sane
Dane
reign
feign
mainly
plainly
waste
paste
haste
taste
chaste
baste
base
case
chase
lace
face

pace
race
mace
place
plague

vague
nail
sail
hail
pail
wail
bail
fail
jail
whale
hale
bait
date
skate
gate
late
fate
mate
weight
eight
shame
lame
came
tame

maim
take
cake
sake
make
wake
lake
shake

own
grown
thrown
shown
known

foam

bone
cone
lone
hone
scone
throne
clone
phone
stone

comb

home

dome
tome

roamed
won’t
don’t

loan
groan
moan

grow
blow
know
row
show
stow

cologne

woe

sewn

hole
whole
pole
mole
sole

phoned
cloned
stoned
moaned
loaned
owned
hope
mope
cope
drove
wove
roam

soul
soak
poke
woke
explode
load
loaf
oaf

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International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) - Diphthongs 2

a / aυ
a

aυ

vowel sound in ‘b y’

vowel sound in ‘c ow’
wild

by
spy
sty
shy
my
cry
try

tiled
piled
styled
bite
kite
spite
white

buy
guy
hi
pi

quite
height

lie
tie
pie

flight
might
night
sight
tight
right
bright

bye
bike
hike
pike
like

byte

style
stile
while
mile
tile
pile

tied
lied

wine
shine
mine
line

child

bough
plough
bowel
towel
vowel
trowel
foul
owl
howl
cowl
yowl
scowl
jowl
fowl
loud
proud
cloud

sign

crowd

time
lime
chime

bowed
cowed

rhyme

ride
hide

cow
how
now
wow
bow
row
brow
allow

blind
find

shout
lout
gout
about

pout
tout
trout
doubt
clown
town
brown
crown
power
shower
tower
bower
cower
sour
pound
found
sound
wound
hound
mound
round
around

house
mouse
douse
out

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International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) - Diphthongs 3

ɔ / ə
ɔ

ə

vowel sound in ‘t oy’

vowel sound in ‘ea r’

toy
coy
boy
soy
Roy
annoy
ploy
joy
Troy
cloy
destroy
employ
decoy
deploy
Illinois

toyed
annoyed
employed
deployed
overjoyed
enjoyed
void
avoid
Freud
boil
soil
toil
coil
foil
spoil
oil

toiled
coiled
foiled
spoiled
oiled
boiled

ear
year
hear
appear
dear
clear

near
tear
gear
fear
disappear
rear
sear
cheer
beer
leer
sheer
peer
deer
steer
engineer
pioneer
volunteer
jeer
veer
pier
tier
chandelier
cavalier

peered
steered
pioneered
cheered
cleared
neared

feared
reared
seared
tiered
cheering
peering
steering
leering
pioneering
jeering
veering
searing
fearing
nearing
clearing
shield
wield
field

here
sphere
mere
we’re

royal
loyal

Zaire

soiled

pierce

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International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) - Diphthongs 4

eə / υə
eə

υə

vowel sound in ‘ai r’

vowel sound in ‘t ou r’

air
chair
hair
fair
lair
stair
pair
affair
despair
flair

éclair
unfair
there
where
their
they’re
wear
tear
bear
mare
pare
stare
rare
fare
Clare
share
prepare
declare
dare
flare
care
bare
compare
beware
aware

Claire
millionaire
commissionaire

tour

square

tourism

aired
chaired
paired
despaired

plural
rural
mural

pared
stared
fared
bared
shared
prepared
declared
dared
flared
cared
laird

luring
curing

tourist
luxuriant
curio

neural
usual
unusual
neurotic
pure
sure
cure
assure
lure
allure
purely
surely
furious
curious
luxurious
cured
lured
assured
allured
touring
alluring
assuring

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