NATO Phonetic Alphabet Converter

Spell text out using the NATO (ICAO) phonetic alphabet — Alpha, Bravo, Charlie… Zulu, and Zero… Nine — the standard way to read letters and digits over the phone or radio. Or paste code words back in to decode them. Everything runs locally in your browser.

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Reference — the NATO phonetic alphabet

Official NATO spellings: Juliett (double t), X-ray (hyphenated), Whiskey. On the radio "9" is often read as "niner" to avoid confusion with the German "nein".