A phonetic alphabet is used in the military to ensure clarity, especially in radio-telephone communications. World War II/Korea NATO Standard Able Baker Charlie Dog Easy Fox George How Item Jig King Love Mike Nan Oboe Peter Queen Roger Sugar Tare Uncle Victor Willaim X-Ray Yoke Zebra Alpha Bravo Charlie Delta Echo Foxtrot George Hotel India Juliette Kilo Lima Mike November Oscar Papa Queen Romeo Sierra Tango Uniform Victor Whiskey X-Ray Yankee Zulu

A word to letter mapping for spelling words

A way of speaking letters so that they will be clearly understood; for example, an A is “Alpha,” and a B is “Bravo,” etc.

an alphabet of characters intended to represent specific sounds of speech

a list of words used to identify letters in a message transmitted by radio or telephone

this is an alphabet which covers all the sounds used in English; there are 44 phonetic symbols for British English

The terms used to transmit letters and numbers via aircraft radio to prevent misunderstandings: A Alpha 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 1 Wun 2 Too 3 Tree 4 Fower 5 Five 6 Six 7 Seven 8 Aight 9 Niner 0 Zeeroh Note that numbers are spoken as individual digits. For example, 297 is spoken as "too niner seven."

An alphabet devised by the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), used in radio-telephone conversations, in which a word is used phonetically in the place of letters. Example, A is alpha.