Take a single word apart

Search any English word and the explorer shows how its spelling is derived: one row per sound, each with its ARPAbet symbol, its IPA symbol, the letters Ingglish uses to write it, and whether it is a vowel or a consonant. The header carries the whole word in IPA and a badge naming the source of the pronunciation — the CMU dictionary, a hand-written override, or the fallback that had to be used.

When there is no dictionary entry the fallback is shown at work: the letter-to-sound rules that guessed it, the two halves of a compound, the prefix and stem of an inflected form, the letters of an initialism, or the American spelling behind a British one. Underneath sits every other word with the identical pronunciation, as clickable chips with their own spellings and corpus counts — the homophones that phonetic spelling merges and English keeps apart. Try words like colonel, favourable or doomscroll, or read about the words English spells misleadingly.