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o

close-mid back rounded — French eau, Spanish o.

close-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.

po
so
lo
on
mom
tok

Build longer chains in the combination lab.

How each language writes it

LanguageSpellingsExampleNote
Frencho (final)ôaueau eau o
water
Spanisho oso ˈoso
bear

Rows follow the languages you have switched on at the top.