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ɔ

open-mid back rounded — French o in port, Italian o in cosa.

open-midbackrounded

Hear it

Synthesised in your browser from this sound's own recipe — formants for vowels, filtered noise for fricatives, a burst for plosives. A robot mouth, not a recording: what you hear is the physics the symbol describes.

In combination

Sounds change colour depending on their neighbours — coarticulation is why isolated drilling only gets you so far.

pɔ
sɔ
lɔ
ɔn
mɔm
tɔk

Build longer chains in the combination lab.

How each language writes it

LanguageSpellingsExampleNote
Frencho + consonant porte pɔʁt
door

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