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An unfamiliar word — a name, a technical term, a word encountered only in reading — is genuinely hard to pronounce confidently from spelling alone, especially with English's many irregular pronunciation patterns. Seeing the phonetic spelling helps, but hearing it said correctly is the fastest way to actually learn it.
Shows the IPA phonetic spelling and, where available, a native audio pronunciation for each word — up to 15 unique words per lookup.
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About Text Pronunciation Guide
An unfamiliar word — a name, a technical term, a word encountered only in reading — is genuinely hard to pronounce confidently from spelling alone, especially with English's many irregular pronunciation patterns. Seeing the phonetic spelling helps, but hearing it said correctly is the fastest way to actually learn it.
This tool takes a word or short phrase, looks up each unique word, and shows its IPA phonetic spelling alongside a native audio pronunciation you can play with one click — checking pronunciation for several unfamiliar words from the same passage in one pass rather than looking each one up separately.
Audio pronunciations come from real recorded speech data included in the dictionary source, not synthesized text-to-speech — so what you hear is an actual spoken pronunciation, though not every word in the dataset has an audio recording available.
How it works
- Paste a word or phrase. Enter one word or a short passage with several unfamiliar words.
- Review the phonetic spelling. See the IPA pronunciation guide for each word.
- Play the audio. Click the speaker icon to hear the word spoken aloud.
Examples
Checking a tricky word
Input
entrepreneur
Output
/ˌɒntrəprəˈnɜː/ — with an audio playback button.