English Phoneme List and Fo√ne…tic √Ēng…lish Representation

The 42 phonemes of sounds of English are listed below with an example word, the representation of the phoneme or sound in Fo√ne…tic √Ēng…lish and the IPA representation of the sound.

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Phoneme No. English Sound or Phoneme Fo√ne…tic √Ēng…lish Letters Making
English Sound or Phoneme		 IPA Spelling
1 a in apple A, a æ
2 e in egg E, e, Ä, ä, Ū, ū ɛ
3 i in it I, i, Ē, ē, Ô, ô, Ű, ű, Ϋ, Γ ɪ
4 o in octopus O, o, Ã, ã, Û, û ɒ
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