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Ingglish

What if English spelling made sense?

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My 5-year-old is learning to read and I keep having to say "yeah sorry, that letter is silent" and "no, those letters make a different sound in this word."So I built Ingglish — English where every letter always makes the same sound. "ough" alone makes 6 different sounds (though, through, rough, cough, thought, bough). In Ingglish, every letter has one sound, no silent letters, no exceptions. - Paste text to see it translated instantly - Translate any webpage while preserving its layout - Chrome extension to browse the web in Ingglish - Fully reversible — Ingglish text can be converted back to standard English (minus homophones) The core translator, DOM integration, and website are all open source: https://github.com/ptarjan/ingglishI'd love your feedback! Thanks.

HN · launched Feb 15, 2026 · 6 upvotes (top 72%) · 0 views

Niche: language learning apps · 511 launches, 50 in the last 7 days ▼ -6% · Explore this niche →

Category and tags
  • Education
  • Content generation
  • B2C
  • Not AI
  • Hobby / open-source project

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Could you build this?

Yes Using the publicly available CMU Pronouncing Dictionary to deterministically translate English words into a 1:1 phonetic orthography in a client-side web app is a simple lookup-and-regex project.

Discussion

3 comments analyzed.

Competitors mentioned: Ingglish

Concerns raised: Makes English harder for non-native speakers

Competitors

Other products that read as similar to this one : 255 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.

Attention rank: #249 of 256 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).

Launched 100 days after the earliest competitor.

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