Speller

Spelling out words using known spelling alphabets

Speller helps you spell out words using know spelling alphabets. When you're on the phone trying to spell a difficult word, or when you want to sound like you're a pilot.

Features

Speller spells out words for you using any of the provided spelling alphabets. At the moment you can choose among the following spelling alphabets:

• International Radiotelephony
• US Financial
• LAPD
• Czech
• Danish
• Dutch
• Finnish
• French
• German
• Italian
• Norwegian
• Portuguese
• Brazilian Portuguese
• Slovene
• Spanish
• Swedish
• Turkish
• PGP Word List

If a letter is not found in the spelling alphabet, a minimum description of the character is provided, based on:

• Emoji description
• Basic Latin
• Latin 1 Supplement
• Latin Extended A
• Latin Extended B

The most famous spelling alphabet is probably the InternationalRadiotelephony, also know as the NATO alphabet.

Usage

Use the Speller class to spell a word, using one of the spelling alphabets:

  Speller.spell(phrase: "Bagpipe", withSpellingAlphabet: .InternationalRadiotelephony)

The returned value is an array of spelled characters with their corresponding codewords:

  let spelling = Speller.spell(phrase: "Bagpipe", withSpellingAlphabet: .InternationalRadiotelephony)
  print(spelling)
  // [B: Bravo, a: Alfa, g: Golf, p: Papa, i: India, p: Papa, e: Echo]