IPA Transcription of "head" in American English
The American English IPA transcription of “head” is /ˈhɛd/.
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headˈhɛd
Dialect Variants
| Dialect | IPA | POS |
|---|---|---|
| English (Australia) | /hed/ | |
| English (United Kingdom) | /ˈhɛd/ |
Derivations
- heady/ˈhɛdi/
- crosshead/ˈkɹɑsˌhɛd/
- headman/ˈhɛdmən/
- header/ˈhɛdɚ/
- headmost/ˈhɛdˌmoʊst/
- headlock/ˈhɛdˌlɑk/
- behead/bɪˈhɛd/ /biˈhɛd/
- heads/ˈhɛdz/
- headless/ˈhɛdləs/ /ˈhɛdlɪs/
- headed/ˈhɛdəd/ /ˈhɛdɪd/
- headlong/ˈhɛdˌlɔŋ/ /ˈhɛˌdlɔŋ/ /ˈhɛdˌlɑŋ/
- headphone/ˈhɛdˌfoʊn/
- headwork/ˈhɛdˌwɝk/
- overhead/ˈoʊvɚˈhɛd/ /oʊvɚˈhɛd/
- subhead/ˈsʌbˌhɛd/
- ahead/əˈhɛd/
- headship/ˈhɛdˌʃɪp/
- forehead/ˈfɔɹhɛd/ /ˈfɑɹɪd/
- heading/ˈhɛdɪŋ/
- headland/ˈhɛdˌlænd/ /ˈhɛdlənd/
Items
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- 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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