IPA Transcription of "head" in British English

The British English IPA transcription of “head” is /ˈhɛd/.

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headˈhɛd

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Dialect Variants

DialectIPAPOS
English (United States)/ˈhɛd/
English (Australia)/hed/

Similar Pronunciations

/bɛd/1

/dɛd/1

/fɛd/2

/hmd/1

/hæd/1

/hɛdz/2

/hɛdə/1

/hɛdɪ/1

/hɛk/1

/hɛl/1

Derivations

Items

  • headanterior anatomical region in many animals, which tends to contain sensory and nervous organs and orifices for ingestion and breathing
  • HEADsports equipment and clothing company
  • Head1968 psychedelic adventure comedy film directed by Bob Rafelson
  • headship's toilet
  • headword that determines the syntactic category of a phrase
  • HeadMonkees' sixth album
  • headend cap on a cylindrically shaped pressure vessel
  • HeadWikimedia disambiguation page
  • Headalbum by The Jesus Lizard
  • headprogram on Unix and Unix-like systems

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