This page helps you pronounce English words and names written in the Musa Alphabet, in two different ways.

The low-tech way just shows all the sounds of English in three charts: consonants, American vowels, and British vowels. Open a chart by clicking on its button above.

For each Musa letter, we show the equivalent in both enPR, the popular system used by the American Heritage Dictionary (AHD), and in IPA, the International Phonetic Alphabet. You can also click on the phrases to hear audio clips.

The British dialect used here is Standard Southern British as presented by Geoff Lindsey. We don't have audio clips for the vowels, and we show John Wells' Lexical Sets instead of AHD.

The high-tech way reads the phrase in the white box and spells it out, sound by sound, using the sample phrases. You can type your phrase into the box with Musa Keyboards or using the Musa letters on the charts as keys, or - even easier - just paste it. Then press the Spell Out button.

On this page, we don't care whether vowels are high or low - stressed or not.

	m	m	maritime museum		n	n	neon napkins										ng	ŋ	hanging tongue
	b	b	cubic robot		d	d	golden flounder		dz	ʣ	Brad's beards		j	ʤ	badger lodging		g	g	vegan yogurt
	p	p	ballpark sports club		t	t	disaffected stepdaughter		ts	ʦ	Kate's cats		ch	ʧ	judo coach		k	k	skeptical groundhog
	p	p̚	unhip flipflops		t	t̚	white-hot outfit										k	k̚	bookrack backpacks
	p	pʰ	prepared papaya		t	tʰ	tortilla trio		ts	ʦʰ	tsarist tsunami		ch	ʧʰ	Chinese checkers		k	kʰ	concrete question
	v	v	velvet valves		th	ð	leather clothing		z	z	zoo zebras		zh	ʒ	Asian massage
	f	f	fluffy photographer		th	θ	thirteenth Goth		s	s	serious silliness		sh	ʃ	shoeshine action
	w	w	wet whiskers		l	l	lovely lilies		r	ɹ	rubber rainwear		y	j	yesterday's youth		l	ɫ	oil spill
	-	.	night-owl		t	r	metal plating		r	ː	Yorkshire terrier		h	h	hungry hammerhead		'	ʔ	uh-oh

	ĭ	ɪ	silver pin		ə	ᵻ	golden helmet		o͝o	ʊ	wooden hook
	ĕ	ɛ	red dress		ŭ	ʌ	cup of mustard		ô	ɔ	auburn hawk
	ă	æ	black cat		ä	a	almond lager		yo͞o	juw	fuchsia cube
	ē	ij	green tea		îr	ɪɹ	clear beer		o͞o	uw	blue moon
	ā	ej	gray day		âr	ɛɹ	pear chair		ō	ow	rose coat
	ī	aj	white tie		är	aɹ	scarlet car		ou	aw	brown cow
	oi	ɔj	turquoise toy		ôr	ɔɹ	orange horse		ûr	ɜɹ	purple shirt
	īr	ajɹ	fire pyre		o͝or	ʊɹ	poor gourd		our	awɹ	flour tower

	ɪ	KIT		ə	commA		ɵ	FOOT
	ɛ	DRESS		ʌ	STRUT		ɔː	THOUGHT
	a	TRAP		a	PALM		ɔ	LOT CLOTH
	ɪj	FLEECE		ɪː	NEAR		ʉw	GOOSE
	ɛj	FACE		ɛː	SQUARE		əw	GOAT
	ɑj	PRICE		ɑː	START		aw	MOUTH
	oj	CHOICE		oː	NORTH		əː	NURSE
	ɑjə	(PYRE)		ɵː	CURE		awə	(POWER)