There have been many different phonetic alphabets used by the military, by emergency services and by amateur radio operators  over the years. The whole purpose of these spoken alphabets is to ensure the person listening to your message can understand which of the letters of the alphabet he or she is saying over the radio…

Without phonetics, you will soon realize that many letters sound the same. The letters D, V and E are certainly different, but the sounds of DEE, VEE and EEE when they are spoken in the normal manner are easily confused when listened to over a noisy radio connection. They sound almost the same and it is easy to confuse them. But if you use phonetics and say the letters as DELTA, VICTOR, ECHO it is quite difficult for the person listening to them to get it wrong.

There have been several phonetic alphabets used over the years for the English language, but now there is one official list. And this is it.

Here is the current phonetic word list adopted by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU).

ITU Phonetic Alphabet

A   ALFA
B    BRAVO
C    CHARLIE
D   DELTA
E    ECHO
F    FOXTROT
G   GOLF
H   HOTEL
I     INDIA
J     JULIET
K   KILO
L    LIMA
M   MIKE
N   NOVEMBER
O   OSCAR
P    PAPA
Q   QUEBEC
R    ROMEO
S    SIERRA
T    TANGO
U   UNIFORM
V   VICTOR
W  WHISKEY
X   X-RAY
Y   YANKEE
Z    ZULU

ITU Numbers

Pronouncing your numerals phonetically, like this:

0   ZEE-ROH
1   WUN
2   TOO
3   THU-REE
4   FOR-WUH
5   FYFE
6   SIXER
7   SER-VUN
8   ATE
9   NINER

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