spelling alphabet

English

Noun

Examples
Alfa, Bravo, Charlie, … (ICAO)

spelling alphabet (plural spelling alphabets)

1. A set of code words that stand for the usual names of the letters of an alphabet, usually for clarity of communication when spelling out words, especially over the radio and especially despite any static thereon.

Synonyms

• phonetic alphabet, radio alphabet, telephone alphabet, voice procedure alphabet, word-spelling alphabet

Hyponyms

• NATO spelling alphabet (NATO phonetic alphabet, ICAO spelling alphabet)
• French spelling alphabet (dated)
• Finnish spelling alphabet
• German spelling alphabet (dated)
• Italian spelling alphabet (dated)
• Korean spelling alphabet
• Portuguese spelling alphabet (dated)
• Russian spelling alphabet
• Spanish spelling alphabet (dated)
• Swedish spelling alphabet
• Turkish spelling alphabet (dated)

Related terms

• alphabet soup

Translations

set of code words

• Catalan: please add this translation if you can
• Danish: fonetisk alfabet
• Finnish: tavausaakkoset
• French: alphabet radio (fr) m
• German: Buchstabieralphabet n, Buchstabiertafel f
• Greek: φωνητικό αλφάβητο (el) n (fonitikó alfávito)
• Hebrew: אלפבית צלילי (he) m (alefbét tslilí)
• Italian: alfabeto telefonico m
• Japanese: 通話表 (ja) (tsūwa hyō)
• Portuguese: código fonético m
• Romanian: alfabet fonetic (ro) n
• Russian: фонети́ческий алфави́т (ru) m (fonetíčeskij alfavít)
• Spanish: please add this translation if you can
• Swedish: bokstaveringsalfabet (sv) n, fonetiskt alfabet n, analogt alfabet n, stavningsalfabet n, radioalfabet n (specifier; radio-comm.), telefonalfabet n (specifier; telephone-comm.)

Further reading

• spelling alphabet on Wikipedia.Wikipedia