Interactive Phonemic Chart

Learn all of the vowel and consonant sounds in American English (voice - Maksym Achkasov) with this interactive phonemic chart.

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Monophthongs in the IPA chart

[i:] - sheep, beet, greet, fleet, feet, treat, seat, feel, deal, steel

[ɜ:] - burn, term, earn, merge, learn, turn, yearn, churn

[ɪ] - Pit, sit, with, this, wink.

[ɔ:] - Oar, or, floor, bore, chore.

[ʊ] - Foot, cook, look, book, hook..

[æ] - Map, cat. bad, pack, sand.

[u:] - To, new, you, shoe, cool.

[ʌ] - Mud, bus, shut, but, up.

[e] - When, men, said, leg, hen, head.

[ɑ:] - Palm, calm, cart, smart, start.

[ə] - Letter, power, flower, tower, shower.

[ɒ] - Lot, cot, dot, pot, on.

Diphthongs in the IPA chart

[ɪə] - Ear, cheer, year, deer, fear.

[əʊ] - Go, bow, sew, so, flow.

[eɪ] - Say, pray, day, way, stray.

[eə] - Air, chair, rare, bare, there.

[ʊə] - Tour, sure, cure.

[aɪ] - I, eye, pie, fight, fright.

[ɔɪ] - Oil, coin, boy, voice, boil.

[aʊ] - Owl, out, count, bow, cowl.

Consonants in the IPA chart

[p] - Pay, happy, pet.

[ʧ] - Choke, watch, catch.

[b] - Best, trouble, tub.

[f] - Fine, offer, off.

[s] - Miss, face, snake.

[v] - Vine, of, save.

[t] - Mat, tile, flat.

[ʃ] - Show, push, rush.

[d] - Dip, sad, mad.

[θ] - Thin, both, method.

[k] - Cat, back, talk.

[ð] - With, then, other.

[ʤ] - Joke, June, large.

[g] - Game, bag, big.

[n] - Nail, fun, nine.

[z] - Crazy, lazy, phase.

[h] - He, heal, hill.

[ŋ] - Sing, fling, wing.

[ʒ] - Measured, treasure, pleasure.

[m] - Some, mail, mum.

[r] - Real, courage, umbrella.

[l] - Love, like, follow.

[w] - We show, wheel.

[j] - You, beyond, yacht.