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Hold Shift or Alt to move between four character layers, so every IPA symbol stays a keystroke away.
Click a symbol, type with Shift and Alt, or browse the chart — then copy your result.
Keyboard and chart together, right in your browser.
Default: the letters and symbols you'll use most · Shift: additional common IPA letters · Alt: marks that attach to a letter (length, nasalization, and more) · Alt+Shift: pitch, clicks, and everything else
Click any symbol to insert it. Diacritics appear with a dotted-circle placeholder — add your base letter first.
This free online tool lets you type International Phonetic Alphabet symbols using an on-screen keyboard or your own keyboard's Shift and Alt keys, and includes a full IPA chart below for browsing every consonant, vowel, diacritic, and tone mark.
An IPA keyboard for typing, an IPA chart for browsing — pick whichever fits the moment.
Hold Shift or Alt to move between four character layers, so every IPA symbol stays a keystroke away.
No physical keyboard shortcuts needed. Tap the on-screen keys on any device, with Shift and Alt as toggles you can click too.
Not sure which symbol you need? Scan the categorized IPA chart below and insert any entry with a single click.
Click keys, use Shift and Alt, or browse the IPA chart below.
Open the KeyboardThree ways into the IPA keyboard, one place to copy from.
Start typing on your keyboard, or click the on-screen keys — both insert characters at your cursor.
Each layer unlocks a different set: common characters, then diacritics, then tone marks and rarer symbols.
Select your result or use the Copy button to send it straight to your clipboard.
The IPA chart groups every symbol by how the sound is made. Consonants are arranged in a grid: columns show where in the mouth the sound is formed, from the lips (/p/, /b/, /m/) back to the throat (/h/), and rows show how the air moves — stops, fricatives, nasals, and more.
Vowels sit on their own chart shaped like the mouth's vowel space: high front /iː/ at the top left, low back /ɑː/ at the bottom right, with the schwa /ə/ near the middle. Reading a vowel's position tells you roughly where your tongue should be.
Around the two main grids you'll find diacritics (small marks that adjust a base sound, such as nasalization), suprasegmentals (stress and length marks like ˈ and ː), tone letters, and non-pulmonic sounds such as the click consonants used in several African languages. The chart on this page keeps the same categories, and every entry is clickable.
If you transcribe English, a small set of symbols does most of the work — all of them on the base or Shift layer of this IPA keyboard.
The core vowel set, from the schwa to the long back vowels.
The five common diphthongs, as in day, my, boy, now, and go.
The consonants English spelling hides: both th sounds, sh, the vision sound, ch, j, and ng.
Primary stress, secondary stress, and the length mark — the three marks that turn symbols into a readable transcription.
What the layers mean and how the chart fits in.
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