Help:IPA for English

The pronunciation of English words in Wikipedia is given in the (IPA) using the following transcription, which is. To compare these symbols with non-IPA American dictionary conventions you may be more familiar with, see, which lists the pronunciation guides of fourteen English dictionaries published in the United States. For a basic introduction to IPA, see. If you feel it is necessary to add a pronunciation respelling, please use the conventions of.

To compare these symbols with dictionary IPA conventions you may be more familiar with, see Help:IPA conventions for English, which lists the conventions of eight English dictionaries published in Britain, Australia, and the United States. For a more complete key to the IPA, see Communpedia:IPA, which includes sounds that do not occur in English. If the IPA symbols do not display properly on your browser, see the links at the bottom of this page.

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(Words in are the standard s. Words in the lexical sets  and  are given two transcriptions, respectively one with  and one with, and with  and ).