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Emma in the NATO alphabet

Emma spelled in the NATO phonetic alphabet, letter by letter — the way pilots and air traffic control do it.

Try:

Echo Mike Mike Alfa

Letter by letter

eEcho
mMike
mMike
aAlfa

Emma spelled the way pilots and air traffic controllers do it — one NATO code word per letter. The breakdown below gives you every word.

How it works

The NATO spelling alphabet (officially the ICAO radiotelephony alphabet) is how pilots, controllers and sailors spell words so they survive a bad radio connection. Every letter has an official code word, tested to be unmistakable in noise.

We use the official spellings, which surprise people: Alfa, not Alpha, and Juliett with two Ts. Those spellings are deliberate, chosen so speakers of any language pronounce them correctly.

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