The word "Kerish" can be spelled in various ways, depending on the language it is being used in. In English, it may be spelled as "kerish" or "karish". Its phonetic transcription in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) is /kɛrɪʃ/. The first sound /k/ represents the voiceless velar stop, followed by the open-mid front unrounded vowel /ɛ/. The consonant cluster /rɪʃ/ is made up of the voiced alveolar retroflex approximant and the voiceless postalveolar fricative. Pronunciation of the word may vary depending on dialect and accent.