IngglishTranslator

adult

a-DUHLT
aduhlt
/əˈdʌlt/ · 2 syllables

“adult” letter by letter

Each letter group of “adult” and how Ingglish spells it (an em dash means those letters make no sound)
Englishadult
Ingglishaduhlt

How “adult” sounds out

Sound-by-sound breakdown of “adult”
Ingglishaduhlt
IPA/ə//d//ʌ//l//t/
Sounds
5 from 5 letters — 2 vowels /ə/, /ʌ/ and 3 consonants /d/, /l/, /t/
Syllables
2 — a · DUHLT, stress on the 2nd
Frequency
common — 14.7 uses per million words in the SUBTLEX subtitle corpus, ranking it #3,329 of 48,804
Rhyme ending
/lt/

Words that rhyme with “adult” (/lt/)

feltfaultdifficultbuiltbeltresultsaltassaultwaltguilt

“adult” — questions & answers

How do you spell “adult”?

A-D-U-L-T in English; “aduhlt” in Ingglish.

How do you pronounce “adult”?

a-DUHLT — IPA /əˈdʌlt/, 2 syllables, stress on the 2nd.

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