Klryz
Pronunciation guide: IPA symbols, stress and word endings

Vowels

iːseeɪsite / ɛbedæcat
ɑːfatherɒhot (UK)ɔːlawʊput
uːtooʌcupɜːbirdəabout
eɪdayaɪmyɔɪboyaʊnow
əʊ / oʊgo (UK / US)ɪəneareəhairʊətour

Consonants that look unusual

θthinðthisʃsheʒmeasure
tʃchurchdʒjudgeŋsingjyes

p b t d k g f v s z h m n l r w sound as in ordinary English spelling.

Marks

  • ˈ main stress, before the stressed syllable: /ˈwɔːtə/ water · ˌ lighter (secondary) stress: /ˌʌndəˈstænd/ understand
  • ː a long vowel · (r) an r said only in accents that pronounce it (most American, Scottish, Irish)

Common word endings

  • -s / -es (plurals; he/she form of verbs): /s/ after voiceless sounds (cats), /z/ after voiced (dogs), /ɪz/ after s, z, sh, ch, j sounds (buses, watches). Spelling: -es after s, x, z, ch, sh; consonant + y → -ies (city → cities).
  • -ed (past): /t/ after voiceless sounds (walked), /d/ after voiced (played), /ɪd/ after t or d (wanted). Spelling: love → loved, stop → stopped, carry → carried.
  • -ing: make → making, run → running, see → seeing.
  • Irregular: go, went, gone · be, was, been · see, saw, seen · man → men · child → children · mouse → mice.
  • Older (King James) forms: -eth = -s (he loveth = he loves) · -est with “thou” (thou lovest) · spake = spoke.

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Sources & licences

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Wiktionary

Definitions, parts of speech, word forms, etymologies, synonyms, antonyms and pronunciations come from the English Wiktionary, by Wiktionary contributors, extracted with Wiktextract (data from kaikki.org, October 2026). The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 licence (and the GNU Free Documentation License). It has been shortened and rearranged (senses grouped per word, some long quotations left out). Because of the ShareAlike terms, this dictionary’s text is shared under CC BY-SA 4.0 as well.

WordNet

Extra synonyms and antonyms, and the definitions of words Wiktionary did not supply, come from Princeton WordNet 3.0.

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Webster’s 1913

The “Webster’s 1913” sections (historical definitions and etymologies) come from Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (G. & C. Merriam, 1913), which is in the public domain, from the Project Gutenberg edition.

King James Version

Every word of the King James New Testament on the Scripture page links here. Where none of the sources has a word (some names and joined-up words), a short note says where it occurs. The KJV text itself is public domain (Crown patent in the UK).

Klryz entries

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