Tools/IPA Chart
Interactive IPA chart with audio
Every English phoneme in one place — consonants, vowels, and diphthongs — plus sounds from French, German, Spanish, Russian, and Arabic. Play an example word on any tile, or open the sound for more words and a step-by-step articulation guide.
Press play on any tile to hear an example word, or click the symbol to open its page.
Consonants
Sounds produced with a partial or full constriction in the vocal tract.
Vowels
Open-tract sounds, classified by tongue height, backness, and lip rounding.
Diphthongs
Gliding vowels that move between two target positions in a single syllable.
Download the chart as a PDF (A4, 246 KB) or in US Letter (249 KB), two pages each, to print or keep offline. To learn the symbols, import the free IPA Anki decks.
How to use this chart
Each symbol stands for exactly one sound — not a letter. That is the whole point of the IPA: English spelling is inconsistent, but a phonetic transcription tells you precisely how a word is said. Start by finding a sound you are unsure about, then click its tile.
The detail page for each phoneme lists example words you can play, plus how the sound is articulated — where the tongue goes, what the lips do, and whether the vocal cords vibrate. If the symbols themselves are new to you, start with how to read IPA: a beginner's guide.
Want the full articulation guide?
The complete phoneme guide pairs every symbol with detailed pronunciation instructions — tongue placement, lip shape, jaw position, voicing, and English example words with their spelling patterns.
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