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.

English Dictionary · 107,383 entries · Sources & licences

“whiteheads” is a form of

whitehead

noun, proper noun

Forms whiteheads

  1. noun (dermatology) A type of comedo, manifesting as a small whitish bump of the skin due to retention of sebum and dead skin cells in a skin pore blocked by a thin layer of epithelium. “Ruth knew that the whiteheads of her teenage acne were a temporary state of affairs, but that did nothing to quell her distress when an eruption hit just before prom.”
  2. noun A species of passerine bird, endemic to New Zealand (Mohoua albicilla).
  3. noun The blue-winged snow goose, Anser caerulescens caerulescens.
  4. noun The surf scoter duck.
  5. noun A domestic pigeon of a particular breed; a white-tailed monk.
  6. proper noun A surname.
  7. proper noun A small coastal town in County Antrim, Northern Ireland; a headland there is named White Head (Irish grid ref J 4791).
  8. proper noun A rural municipality in south-west Manitoba, Canada; in full, the Rural Municipality of Whitehead.
  9. proper noun A community in Guysborough County, Nova Scotia, Canada.
  10. proper noun An unincorporated community in Tallahatchie County, Mississippi, United States.
  11. proper noun A township in Alleghany County, North Carolina, United States.
  12. noun A form of self-propelling torpedo.

Synonyms

closed comedo Alfred North Whitehead milium

Etymology

From white + head.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A form of self-propelling torpedo.

Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “whitehead”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details