Welcome to Phonetic Word Finder. This is a web site designed for songwriters and poets to help you find just the word you need. It allows you to perform searches like: K $0 $1 - Find iambs starting with the "k" sound S .* S - Find words starting and ending with the "s" sound A list of the available sounds is in the column on the right of the page. Be sure to separate adjacent sounds with spaces. Wildcards symbols can be used to represent a variety of sounds: "@" any vowel "!" any consonant "." any phoneme "$" any pseudo syllable (translates as "!* @ !*") It is possible to specify that a phoneme occurs multiple times, or optionally appears, using the following symbols: * - appears 0 or more times + - appears 1 or more times ? - appears 0 or 1 time Syllables can be stressed or unstressed. In addition, words with multiple syllables may have syllables with secondary stress. The following terms can optionally] to included after vowels only to indicate stress: (default) - unstressed, primary stress, or secondary stress 0 - unstressed 1 - primary stressed 2 - secondary stress 12 - primary or secondary stress 02 - unstressed or secondary stress Alternatives sounds may be separated by "|". Thus K (AE | AH) T matches "cut" and "cat". It is also possible group parts of the search term using the brackets "(" and ")". |
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AE as in AT AH as in HUT AO as in OUGHT AW as in COW AY as in HIDE B as in BE CH as in CHEESE D as in DOG DH as in THEE EH as in ED ER as in HURT EY as in ATE F as in FEE G as in GREEN HH as in HE IH as in IT IY as in EAT JH as in GEE K as in KEY L as in LEE M as in ME N as in KNEE NG as in PING OW as in OAT OY as in TOY P as in PEE R as in READ S as in SEA SH as in SHE T as in TEA TH as in THETA UH as in HOOD UW as in TWO V as in VEE W as in WE Y as in YIELD Z as in ZEE ZH as in SEIZURE |