DialectGuessr
The 26 questions
Everyone who takes the survey answers exactly the same 26 questions — 12 about the words you use and 14about how you pronounce things. Keeping the bank fixed is what makes one person's answers comparable with another's, and what lets the map colour a region by its dominant answer.
Answer all 26 and find your accent →
Vocabulary: the words you use
Soda vs Pop vs Coke: The Fizzy Drink Map
What do you usually call a sweet carbonated drink?
Sneakers vs Trainers vs Runners: A Dialect Map
What do you call shoes worn for sport or exercise?
Dinner vs Tea vs Supper: The Evening Meal
What do you usually call the main evening meal?
Bread Roll Names: Bap vs Cob vs Barm vs Breadcake
What do you call a small, round piece of bread for one person?
Chips vs Fries vs Hot Chips: Which Do You Say?
What do you call thin strips of potato served hot and fried?
Candy vs Sweets vs Lollies: A Dialect Map
What is your general word for small sugary treats?
Shopping Cart vs Trolley vs Buggy
What do you call the wheeled basket used in a supermarket?
Takeaway vs Takeout vs Carry-Out: A Dialect Map
What do you call restaurant food collected to eat elsewhere?
Water Fountain vs Drinking Fountain vs Bubbler
What do you call a public fixture you drink water from?
Corner Shop vs Convenience Store vs Dairy
What do you call a small neighbourhood shop selling everyday items?
Y'all vs You Guys vs Youse
How do you usually address a group of people informally?
Trash Can vs Bin vs Rubbish Bin: A Dialect Map
What do you call the household container for unwanted rubbish?
Pronunciation: how you say things
Trap–Bath Split Explained: Bath, Grass, Dance
In your natural accent, does “bath” use the vowel in “cat” or “father”?
Rhotic vs Non-Rhotic Accents Explained
When you say “car” by itself, do you pronounce an R sound at the end?
Foot–Strut Split Explained: Put vs Putt
Do “put” and “putt” have the same vowel in your natural accent?
Glottal Stop vs T-Flapping: How You Say “Bottle”
What usually happens to the middle consonant when you say “bottle”?
The Cot–Caught Merger, Explained
Do “cot” and “caught” rhyme in your natural accent?
Mary–Marry–Merry Merger Explained
How do “Mary”, “marry”, and “merry” compare in your natural accent?
The Face Vowel: Why “Day” Differs Worldwide
When you say “day” slowly, does the vowel glide or stay fairly steady?
The Goat Vowel: Why “Go” Differs Worldwide
When you say “go” slowly, does the vowel glide or stay fairly steady?
TH-Fronting and TH-Stopping Explained
What does the first sound of “three” resemble in your relaxed speech?
H-Dropping: Which Accents Drop Their Aitches
In relaxed speech, do you pronounce the H at the start of “house”?
Yod-Dropping and Yod-Coalescence Explained
Which is closest to how you naturally say “tune”?
Nurse–Square Merger Explained (the Scouse Vowel)
Do “fur” and “fair” rhyme in your natural accent?
Near–Square Merger: the New Zealand Vowel
Do “beer” and “bear” rhyme in your natural accent?
Happy-Tensing: The Final Vowel in “Happy”
What is the final vowel in “happy” closest to?
Why these questions
The bank follows established dialect-survey practice: ask about ordinary speech used with friends and family, use concrete everyday concepts, and keep the questions identical across locations. Each one was chosen because it splits the English-speaking world somewhere interesting — sometimes between countries, sometimes between two English cities forty miles apart. See how the answers are scored or browse the accent profiles they feed.