Ingglish
What if English spelling made sense?
Details
- External ID
- 47025011
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- Ingglish
- Website domain
- ingglish.com
- Launched
- Feb. 15, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 6
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.28099730458221023
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
Description
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.
Enrichment
- Theme
- ai translation and localization tools
- Vertical
- Education
- Function
- Content generation
- Audience
- B2C
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- simplified english spelling system
- Manually corrected
- False
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
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Launched 109 days after the earliest competitor.
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