In British English, the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) is more commonly used for phonetic transcriptions compared to the Merriam-Webster Phonetic Alphabet (MWPA). While the MWPA is associated with American English dictionaries such as Merriam-Webster, the IPA is widely used by British dictionaries, language learners, linguists, and educators to provide accurate phonetic representations of words in British English and other languages.