The Sounds of English
This build's pronunciation records describe English words with 39 ARPABET sound symbols: 15 vowels and 24 consonants. Each reference page shows the sound's IPA symbol, common spellings estimated from our pronunciation and spelling data, and example words grouped by this build's commonness bands.
Counts, spellings, and examples are computed from this build's pinned pronunciation records (CMUdict-derived) and its compiled lexicon. They describe this data release only — never how all of English is spoken. Data version v1/2026.07-lexical.6.
Vowel sounds
Consonant sounds
About this reference & its limits
- Pronunciations come from the pinned CMUdict-derived artifact compiled into this data release. A word without a record here means "no pronunciation recorded in this build", never a claim about how the word is pronounced.
- The "common spellings" tables are a greedy co-occurrence estimate — the spelling of each word is scanned for curated candidate letter groups, not aligned sound-by-sound — so individual attributions can be wrong and the percentages are approximate.
- Commonness groups are build-specific ranking bands for this release, not universal usage claims, and membership in any word list here never implies validity in a specific word game.
- Example lists exclude words on this build's offensive-word policy list.