# NATO Alphabet Guide

Spell out text using the NATO phonetic alphabet.

- Tool: https://ilham.dev/tools/text-to-nato-alphabet/
- Guide URL: https://ilham.dev/guides/text-to-nato-alphabet/
- Tool guides index: https://ilham.dev/guides/tools/
- Broader guide: Text Formatting and Cleanup (https://ilham.dev/guides/text-formatting-and-cleanup/)

## What it does

Spell out text using the NATO phonetic alphabet — Alfa, Bravo, Charlie — which is what you use when a word has to survive a noisy phone line.

## Use the tool

Open https://ilham.dev/tools/text-to-nato-alphabet/, add the input the tool asks for, run it, and check the output before using it elsewhere.

## Input and output

- Input: text.
- Output: text.
- Category: Encoding.

## Privacy and processing
Processing happens locally in your browser. This tool does not upload the input to ilham.dev.

## Questions

### Why Alfa and Juliett, with a double t?

Both spellings were chosen so that speakers of languages which do not distinguish those sounds still pronounce them correctly. The spelling is deliberate, not a typo.