helpless
HEL-plas
helplas in Ingglish
IPA /ˈhɛlpləs/ · 2 syllables
How “helpless” is spelled in Ingglish
| English | h | e | l | p | less |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ingglish | h | e | l | p | las |
“helpless” sound by sound
| Ingglish | h | e | l | p | l | a | s |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IPA | /h/ | /ɛ/ | /l/ | /p/ | /l/ | /ə/ | /s/ |
- Sounds
- 7 sounds from 8 letters: 2 vowels /ɛ/, /ə/ and 5 consonants /h/, /l/, /p/, /l/, /s/
- Syllables
- 2 — HEL · plas, stress on the 1st
- Frequency
- common: 11.4 uses per million words of film and TV subtitles (SUBTLEX), ranking #4,014 of the 48,804 words on this site
- Rhyme ending
- /ɛlpləs/
“helpless” — questions & answers
How do you spell “helpless”?
H-E-L-P-L-E-S-S in English; “helplas” in Ingglish.
How do you pronounce “helpless”?
HEL-plas — IPA /ˈhɛlpləs/, 2 syllables, stress on the 1st.
What is the IPA for “helpless”?
/ˈhɛlpləs/ — 2 syllables, stress on the 1st.