dreadful
DRED-fal
dredfal in Ingglish
IPA /ˈdɹɛdfəl/ · 2 syllables
How “dreadful” is spelled in Ingglish
| English | d | r | ead | ful |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ingglish | d | r | ed | fal |
“dreadful” sound by sound
| Ingglish | d | r | e | d | f | a | l |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IPA | /d/ | /ɹ/ | /ɛ/ | /d/ | /f/ | /ə/ | /l/ |
- Sounds
- 7 sounds from 8 letters: 2 vowels /ɛ/, /ə/ and 5 consonants /d/, /ɹ/, /d/, /f/, /l/
- Syllables
- 2 — DRED · fal, stress on the 1st
- Frequency
- fairly common: 8.2 uses per million words of film and TV subtitles (SUBTLEX), ranking #5,012 of the 48,804 words on this site
- Rhyme ending
- /ɛdfəl/
“dreadful” — questions & answers
How do you spell “dreadful”?
D-R-E-A-D-F-U-L in English; “dredfal” in Ingglish.
How do you pronounce “dreadful”?
DRED-fal — IPA /ˈdɹɛdfəl/, 2 syllables, stress on the 1st.
What is the IPA for “dreadful”?
/ˈdɹɛdfəl/ — 2 syllables, stress on the 1st.