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NATO Phonetic Alphabet

Spell text with the NATO, DIN 5009 or German alphabet, and read calls back to text

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About the chart

  • NATO is the ICAO radiotelephony alphabet. The official spellings are “Alfa” and “Juliett”; the common variants are accepted when reading.
  • DIN 5009 is the 2022 German standard built from city names. German (1996) is the older given-name alphabet still in everyday use.
  • Each cell also shows the letter's Morse code, its flag-semaphore arm positions as seen by the receiver, and its maritime signal flag.
  • Auto switches to reading when every word in the input is a recognised call. A “/” between calls marks a word break.