A spelling alphabet (also called by various other names) is a set of words used to represent the letters of an alphabet in oral communication, especially over a two-way radio or telephone. The words chosen to represent the letters sound sufficiently different from each other to clearly differentiate them.

The NATO phonetic alphabet is a Spelling Alphabet, a set of words used instead of letters in oral communication (i.e. over the phone or military radio). Each word ("code word") stands for its initial lette r (alphabetical "symbol").

Learn about the Nato Phonetic Alphabet's history and how it was developed. See current and historic phonetic alphabets from WWI to present.

Phonetic Alphabet Tables. Useful for spelling words and names over the phone. I printed this page, cut out the table containing the NATO phonetic alphabet (below), and taped it to the side of my computer monitor when I was a call center help desk technician.

The International Radiotelephony Spelling Alphabet or simply the Radiotelephony Spelling Alphabet, commonly known as the NATO phonetic alphabet, is the most widely used set of clear-code words for communicating the letters of the Roman alphabet.

The International spelling alphabet helps you spell out words over the phone and radio with code words such as Alfa, Bravo, Charlie, etc. for each letter of the alphabet.

A phonetic alphabet is an alphabet in which each letter is represented by a codeword that starts with that letter. For example, in a phonetic alphabet, the letter ‘B’ could be represented by the word ‘Bravo’, while the letter ‘P’ could be represented by the word ‘Papa’.

May 2, 2024 · The NATO phonetic alphabet assigns distinct code words to each letter, such as "Foxtrot" for F and "Yankee" for Y, to help improve clarity when spelling out words or saying a string of letters. The alphabet was adopted in the 1950s and became a universally accepted phonetic alphabet.

A spelling alphabet is used to help spell words in a noisy environment or over the phone or radio. The English Phonetic Spelling Alphabet, explained here, is widely used by military and police organizations.

Although often called "phonetic alphabets", spelling alphabets are unrelated to phonetic transcription systems such as the International Phonetic Alphabet.