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ɛ̃

nasal open-mid front — French in/ain in vin, pain.

open-midfrontnasal

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.

pɛ̃
sɛ̃
lɛ̃
ɛ̃n
mɛ̃m
tɛ̃k

Build longer chains in the combination lab.

How each language writes it

LanguageSpellingsExampleNote
Frenchinimaineinienyn pain pɛ̃
bread

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