How do you write Elisabeth in Phonetics?

Answer 1

First, it is pronounced, and so written phonetically, the same as "Elizabeth".

For a typical phonetic spelling using the sort of symbols dictionaries often use, see:
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/Elizabeth

Unfortunately, the unusual symbols in that entry (and many like it) are images, so you can't cut-and-paste them to your word processing software.
But most of these symbols ARE available on your keyboard (e.g., via the Insert/Symbol command in Word)

ĭ-lĭz΄ə-bəθ

OR if you don't like to use the Greek letter (theta) for the "th" sound at the end, you can write

ĭ-lĭz΄ə-bəth

(By the way, the reason for using theta instead of just "th" is that English pronounces "th" sometimes with the voice [as in "these"], sometimes without [is in "thieves"]. The theta makes it clear that you mean the 'voiceless' one.)

And here is a reasonable phonetic representation that uses nothing but the main part of an ordinary keyboard (NO special symbols at all, is the following, with the accented syllable indicated by capital letters.

i-LIZ-uh-buhth

(Some pronounce the name with a bit more of a secondary accent to the last syllable which may turn the vowel into a short e, so that the word would be written phonetically as: i-LIZ-uh-beth, or, using symbols, ĭ-lĭz΄ə-beth )

Some incorrectly write the first letter as "ee", as if it made a long-e sound, but in the ordinary pronuncation of the name it does not! (Unfortunately, even the otherwise excellent site www.behindthename.com makes this mistake.)

Not too bad a method, actually, though the vowel indicated by "uh" is slightly different from what you might think. It is NOT the same as the accented short u (as in "but"). It is, rather, an unstressed, 'reduced' vowel sound called "schwa" that is almost swallowed and sometimes virtually disappears.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schwa


For more details on several of the sounds in this name, especially the vowels( and including a listing of the phonetic symbols used to indicate them), see the following, in order of their use in the word:

short i
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Near-close_near-front_unrounded_vowel

"schwa" (unstressed, reduced vowel) often written as upside-down, backward e
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mid_central_vowel

short e
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Close-mid_front_unrounded_vowel

th (without voice)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voiceless_dental_fricative

For a listing of ALL the sounds and their standard symbols in the "International Phonetic Alphabet" see:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Phonetic_Alphabet

Answer 2

Hey ADX-liz,

Will this help?
[ĭ-lĭz΄ə-bəθ] Or this perhaps: ee-LIHZ-uh-bth

Answer 3

/I'Li:z@,bET/
btw elisabethan is
/ILIz@'bi:T@n/