| Syllables and stress | |||
| Syllables are separated by hyphens ("-"). The stress on a syllable is indicated by writing the syllable in CAPITAL LETTERS. | |||
| ə (schwa) | |||
| The only non-English-alphabet character used in this pronunciatian key is ə, the character known as "schwa." ə is a neutral vowel sound like a in about, e in model, i in quantity, o in community, u in circus. | |||
| Respelling symbols | Example | ||
| prə-NUN-see-AY-shən | pronunciation | ||
| Consonants | |||
| Respelling symbols | Examples | Also Used by | |
| ch | church, child | Dictonary.com | |
| h | hat, have | Dictonary.com | |
| hw | which, why | Dictonary.com | |
| j | judge | Dictonary.com | |
| kh | loch (Scottish), Buch (German) | Wikipedia, World Book Online and BBC text spelling | |
| ng | thing, ring | Dictonary.com | |
| sh | ship, dish, ration, ratio | Dictonary.com | |
| th | thin, thigh, beneath | Dictonary.com | |
| dh | this, thy | Wikipedia, World Book Online and BBC text spelling | |
| y | yes, yonder | Dictonary.com | |
| zh | vision, pleasure | Dictonary.com | |
| b | boy, cob | Dictonary.com | <|
| d | dog, had | Dictonary.com | |
| f | fast, off | Dictonary.com | |
| g | good, dog | Dictonary.com | |
| k | kitchen, cook | Dictonary.com | |
| l | long, ball | Dictonary.com | |
| m | money, ram | Dictonary.com | |
| n | no, ton | Dictonary.com | |
| p | pale, lap | Dictonary.com | |
| r | rat, run, arrange | Dictonary.com | |
| s | sun, pass | Dictonary.com | |
| t | tall, short | Dictonary.com | |
| v | value, rev | Dictonary.com | |
| w | water, walk | Dictonary.com | |
| z | zebra, biz | Dictonary.com | |
| Vowels | |||
| Respelling symbols | Examples | Also Used by | |
| a | apathy, pat, lad, ran | Dictonary.com | |
| ay | pay, paid, say, ablation | Dictonary.com | |
| air | care, hair, there, verify | Dictonary.com | |
| ah | father, palm | Dictonary.com | |
| ar | arm, farther | Wikipedia and BBC text spelling | |
| e | let, head, fell | Dictonary.com | |
| ee | bee, see, complete | Dictonary.com | |
| i | invalid, pit, city, rabbit, garbage | Dictonary.com | |
| ahy | item, pie, by, my | Dictonary.com | |
| eer | pier, near, here | Dictonary.com | |
| o | pot, not, wasp, hock | Dictonary.com | |
| ohr | north, war, force, wore | Wikipedia | |
| oh | toe, no | Dictonary.com | |
| aw | caught, paw | Dictonary.com | |
| oi | noise, boy | Wikipedia, Random House Dictionary of the English Language and Chambers Dictionary | |
| uu | took, put | Wikipedia and BBC text spelling | |
| oor | tour, manure | Dictonary.com | |
| oo | boot, soon, through | Dictonary.com | |
| ow | out, now | Wikipedia, World Book Online and Chambers Dictionary | |
| uh | cut, run, enough | Wikipedia, MacMillan Dictionary for Students and Random House Dictionary of the English Language. | |
| ər | urge, term, firm, word, heard, bird, vernier, butter, winner | Wikipedia and MacMillan Dictionary for Students | |
| ə | about, item, gallop, circus, edible, | Wikipedia, MacMillan Dictionary for Students and Random House Dictionary of the English Language. | |
| yoo | pupil, | Dictonary.com | |
| oe | feu (French), schön, zwölf (German) | BBC text spelling | |
| ue | tu (French), über (German) | BBC text spelling | |
| o(ng) | bon (French) | BBC text spelling | |
This pronunciation method is based on Dictionary.com respelling key with Wikipedia and others' respelling keys where it makes more sense to me. Especially, where Dictionary.com uses italics or small caps to help symbolize sounds, I used alternate respelling symbols from the other sites. The source chart used for these codes was at Wikipedia's Pronunciation respelling for English .