A fun tool to try spelling English like its pronounced.
Each row below represents one sound (phoneme) in the English language. Enter your own spelling for each phoneme to explore alternative spellings of English.
| ARPABET | IPA | Example | Custom Spelling | Translated Example |
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SpellCaster was created by Christian Niles, a lifetime language nerd. If you like this site, you'll love Why Q Needs U by Danny Bate (as well as Lingthusiam). The book tells the history of the English alphabet and might actually make you appreciate English's weird wonky spelling.
Pronunciations are sourced from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, a free resource from Carnegie Mellon University covering over 134,000 English words.
This site was built with the help of Claude, which makes creating silly things like this easy to do in a day or less. The source code is available on GitHub.