English Alphabet Reference

26 letters with NATO phonetic alphabet and Morse code

A reference for all 26 English letters with their NATO phonetic spelling words (Alfa, Bravo, Charlie), international Morse code, and Unicode code points. Type a word to spell it phonetically or in Morse.

What is the NATO phonetic alphabet?

It is the international radiotelephony spelling alphabet adopted by NATO and the ICAO. Each letter has a distinct code word (A=Alfa, B=Bravo, C=Charlie) chosen so letters stay clear over noisy radio and phone links.

The English Alphabet Reference lists all 26 letters of the modern English alphabet alongside three things professionals reach for constantly: the NATO phonetic alphabet code words, international Morse code, and Unicode code points. You can also type a word and have it spelled out phonetically or in Morse for use over the radio, on the phone, or for accessibility.

How it works

The NATO phonetic alphabet (officially the ICAO/NATO radiotelephony spelling alphabet) assigns a clear code word to each letter — Alfa, Bravo, Charlie, … Zulu — so that easily-confused letters like B/P/V/T stay distinct over poor audio links. The official spellings Alfa and Juliett are used deliberately to avoid mispronunciation by non-English speakers.

International Morse code encodes each letter as a pattern of dots (.) and dashes (-). Timing matters: a dash is three dot-lengths long, symbols within a letter are separated by one dot-length, letters by three, and words by seven. When you spell a word, letters are joined by a space and words by a slash (/).

Unicode code points show where each letter lives in the character set: uppercase AZ are U+0041–U+005A and lowercase az are U+0061–U+007A, exactly 32 apart.

Example

Spelling the word GERA:

  • Phonetic: Golf Echo Romeo Alfa
  • Morse: --. . .-. .-

Notes

Only the 26 basic Latin letters are part of the standard English alphabet; digits and punctuation have their own Morse codes but are outside the alphabet reference here. Everything is generated locally in your browser — nothing you type leaves the page.