NATO Phonetic Alphabet

The NATO phonetic alphabet, officially the international radiotelephony spelling alphabet, gives every letter a code word, from Alfa for A to Zulu for Z, so that letters can't be mixed up on the phone or the radio, where B, D, P and T sound almost the same. Pilots, air traffic controllers, the military and the police use it every day, and it is just as useful for spelling a name, a booking code or a serial number on the phone. Type your text, and the tool spells it letter by letter, with a slash between the words.

Alfa and Juliett are spelled this way on purpose, so that speakers of other languages say them correctly, and digits have their own pronunciation, such as Tree for 3, Fife for 5 and Niner for 9, as the chart shows. Choose “Pronunciation” to get the words as they are said, or a list with one letter on each line. The tool also works the other way: choose “Code words to text” and paste the code words. Letters with accents and letters of other alphabets, such as Cyrillic and Greek, are first written in Latin letters and then spelled.