WP:IPA for French

The charts below show the way in which the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) represents French language pronunciations in Wikipedia articles. For a guide to adding IPA characters to Wikipedia articles, see Template:IPA and .
French has no word-level stress so stress marks should not be used in transcribing French words. See French phonology and French orthography for a more thorough look at the sounds of French.
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IPA 	Examples 	English approximation
 	bon 	about
 	deux, grande, Djibouti 	today
 	faire, vif 	festival
 	garçon, longue 	again
 	corps, avec, quand, Irak 	sky
 	laisser, possible, seul 	law
 	même 	moo
 	nous, bonne 	no
 	gagner, champagneIn European French, is merging with , but in Quebec, is distinguished from 	canyon
 	camping, funkIn European French, is often pronounced . In Quebec, some speakers merge it with and some speakers pronounce it exactly as in English. 	camping
 	père, groupe 	spy
 	regarder, nôtreThe French rhotic is usually uvular, but it varies by region. For example, in Quebec, , , and are all used, but nowadays, most speakers use .	Guttural R, Scottish English loch, but voiced
 	sans, ça, assez, soixante, six, dix 	sir
 	chance, tchèque 	shoe
 	tout, thé, tchèque, grand-oncle 	sty
 	vous, wagon, neuf heures 	vein
 	zéro, raison, chose, deuxième 	zeal
 	jamais, visage, Djibouti 	measure
Semivowels	Semivowels 	Semivowels
 	fief, payer, fille, travail, hier 	yet
 	oui, loi, moyen, web, whisky 	wet
 	huit, Puy 	between wet and yet
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