Spelling alphabets
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Spelling alphabets use specific words to describe single characters -- often with words designed to sound distinct,
to avoid confusion that speaking out the alphabet itself does, as that often gives similar-sounding names.
Due to it being a really good idea around aviation, voice communication (telephone, long distance radio, short-range devices), many of the other names for the same idea idicate that - say, word-spelling alphabet, (radio)telephony alphabet, voice procedure alphabet.
Some also call it a phonetic alphabet, but this is confusing since Phonetic scripts, arguably often phonetic alphabets, are the thing that write down specific phonemes with specific characters (e.g. used around phonetic research).