NATO phonetic alphabet

The NATO phonetic alphabet (officially known as the International Radiotelephony Spelling Alphabet) is also commonly known as the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) phonetic alphabet.

You may know it from movies and some discussion made available via internet, but it is the most widely used radiotelephone spelling alphabet in the world, used to clarify communication for maritime operations, domestic and international flights, and NATO Alliance Military Activities. The system is simple and it's assigning names to the 26 letters of the English language and making a slight variation of the names of English numbers.

The code was designed to eliminate problems that appear during communication when there is bad reception, a lot of background noise or people who have strong accents. Often, letters that sound similar, such as "M" and "N" or "F" and "S", are confused, and this can be critical when someone is giving information to emergency responders.

The 26 words assigned to the letters and their Morse Code equivalents are as follows:

Letter	Word	Pronunciation	Morse Code
A	Alfa/Alpha	AL FAH	● ▬
B	Bravo	BRAH VOH	▬ ● ● ●
C	Charlie	CHAR LEE	▬ ● ▬ ●
D	Delta	DELL TAH	▬ ● ●
E	Echo	ECK OH	●
F	Foxtrot	FOKS TROT	● ● ▬ ●
G	Golf	GOLF	▬ ▬ ●
H	Hotel	HOH TELL	● ● ● ●
I	India	IN DEE AH	● ●
J	Juliett	JEW LEE ETT	● ▬ ▬ ▬
K	Kilo	KEY LOH	▬ ● ▬
L	Lima	LEE MAH	● ▬ ● ●
M	Mike	MIKE	▬ ▬
N	November	NO VEMBER	▬ ●
O	Oscar	OSS CAH	▬ ▬ ▬
P	Papa	PAH PAH	● ▬ ▬ ●
Q	Quebec	KEH BECK	▬ ▬ ● ▬
R	Romeo	ROW ME OH	● ▬ ●
S	Sierra	SEE AIRRAH	● ● ●
T	Tango	TANG OH	▬
U	Uniform	YOU NEE FORM	● ● ▬
V	Victor	VIK TAH	● ● ● ▬
W	Whiskey	WISS KEY	● ▬ ▬
X	X-ray	ECKS RAY	▬ ● ● ▬
Y	Yankee	YANG KEY	▬ ▬ ● ●
Z	Zulu	ZOO LOO	▬ ▬ ▬ ▬ ▬

Numbers from 0 to 8 are spoken normally, however, the number 9 is spoken as NIN-ER to avoid confusion with the number 5. A hyphen (-) is referred to as a DASH, a period (.) is referred to as a STOP, and a decimal point is referred to as a POINT or as a DECIMAL.