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Transcribe English into the International Phonetic Alphabet, word by word, from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary — with anything it does not know said so plainly.

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Looked up in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary — 126,046 words of North American English. This is a dictionary, not a guess: English spelling does not determine pronunciation, so a word that is not in it is marked as missing rather than given an invented transcription.

About the data

The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, © 1993–2015 Carnegie Mellon University, used under the BSD 2-Clause licence — read the licence. It transcribes North American English, so a British reader will disagree with it about words like “bath” and every word ending in “-er”.

It records phonemes but not vowel length, so you will see /u/ rather than /uː/. Where a word has more than one pronunciation, every one is listed above; the first is what the joined transcription uses.

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How it works

1Type or paste English. The dictionary downloads once on first use, then stays cached in your browser.
2Every word is looked up, never guessed — English spelling does not determine pronunciation, so a word that is not in the dictionary is marked as missing instead of being invented.
3Words with more than one pronunciation show all of them: "read" and "abstract" are both in here twice, and which one you want depends on the sentence.
4It is North American English, and it records phonemes but not vowel length — so /u/ rather than /uː/.

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