Type a word or a sentence to see its IPA transcription with stress marks, plus the closest Korean spelling.
Each word is looked up in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary from Carnegie Mellon University (about 126,000 words of North American English) and every sound is mapped to IPA. Words with more than one common pronunciation, like either or route, show the alternatives too.
ˈ comes before the syllable with primary stress and ˌ before secondary stress. ə is the relaxed schwa; ɚ and ɝ are the r-coloured vowels in butter and bird.
The Hangul line follows the consonant rules of Korea's official loanword orthography but keeps American vowels, so it sounds like the word rather than matching dictionary loanword spellings. It is handy for Korean learners and for writing names in Korean.
Audio uses only voices installed on this device. Online voices, which send text to a server, are skipped, so the button hides if no English voice is installed.
Rare names and new slang may not be listed. Words ending in -s, -ed, -ing or -ly are guessed from their stem and marked as guesses.
The dictionary is American English, so transcriptions are US: rhotic r and the ɑ vowel in hot.
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