Pronunciation: IPA + audio + origin API

The full pronunciation card the plain definition endpoints drop: every IPA variant, downloadable audio-clip URLs (with license), etymology/origin, parts of speech, and Wiktionary source links. Answers 'how is colonel pronounced?', 'give me an audio clip and IPA for this word'.

Price$0.01per request

MethodPOST

Route/v1/words/phonetics

StatusLive

MIME typeapplication/json

Rate limit60/minute

Cache604800s public

wordsphoneticsipapronunciationaudioetymologydictionarylexical

API URLhttps://x402.hexl.dev/v1/words/phonetics

Integration docs

Example request

{
  "word": "colonel"
}

Example response

{
  "word": "colonel",
  "ipa": [
    "/ˈkɜːnəl/",
    "/ˈkɝnəl/"
  ],
  "primaryIpa": "/ˈkɜːnəl/",
  "audio": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈkɝnəl/",
      "url": "https://api.dictionaryapi.dev/media/pronunciations/en/colonel-us.mp3",
      "license": "BY-SA 3.0",
      "sourceUrl": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=1779987"
    }
  ],
  "hasAudio": true,
  "origin": null,
  "partsOfSpeech": [
    "noun",
    "verb"
  ],
  "sourceUrls": [
    "https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/colonel"
  ]
}

Input schema

{
  "type": "object",
  "required": [
    "word"
  ],
  "properties": {
    "word": {
      "type": "string"
    },
    "lang": {
      "type": "string",
      "default": "en",
      "description": "ISO 2-letter language code."
    }
  }
}

Output schema

{
  "type": "object",
  "additionalProperties": true
}