ICAO spelling alphabet

English

Noun

ICAO spelling alphabet

1. The ICAO radiotelephony spelling alphabet of the International Civil Aviation Organization. This alphabet assigns names to letters of the alphabet for clearer enunciation (and for the same reason pronounces the numeral 9 as "niner"):
   • Alfa, Bravo, Charlie, Delta, Echo, Foxtrot, Golf, Hotel, India, Juliett, Kilo, Lima, Mike, November, Oscar, Papa, Quebec, Romeo, Sierra, Tango, Uniform, Victor, Whiskey, X-ray, Yankee, Zulu.

Synonyms

• NATO phonetic alphabet

Translations

ICAO radiotelephony spelling alphabet

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: (short name) 北約音標字母／北约音标字母 (Běiyuē Yīnbiāo Zìmǔ), (formal name) 國際無線電通話拼寫字母／国际无线电通话拼写字母 (Guójì Wúxiàndiàn Tōnghuà Pīnxiě Zìmǔ)

• Finnish: ICAO:n radioaakkoset
• German: NATO-Buchstabieralphabet
• Romanian: alfabetul radio-fonetic ICAO n
• Russian: фонети́ческий алфави́т ИКА́О m (fonɛtíčeskij alfavít IKÁO)
• Spanish: alfabeto radiofónico m
• Swedish: ICAO:s bokstaveringsalfabet n,

See also

• Appendix:NATO spelling alphabet
• Appendix:Finnish spelling alphabet
• Appendix:French spelling alphabet
• Appendix:German spelling alphabet
• Appendix:Italian spelling alphabet
• Appendix:Korean spelling alphabet
• Appendix:Portuguese spelling alphabet
• Appendix:Russian spelling alphabet
• Appendix:Spanish spelling alphabet
• Appendix:Swedish spelling alphabet
• Appendix:Turkish spelling alphabet