The spelling of the word "most wafting" can be explained using the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA). The word begins with the bilabial consonant sound /m/ followed by the open-mid back unrounded vowel sound /ɒ/. The next two sounds are the alveolar fricative consonant /s/ and the dental fricative consonant /θ/. The final sound is the palato-alveolar affricate consonant /tʃ/, which is followed by the voiced velar approximant consonant /w/ and the voiced dental fricative consonant /ð/. Altogether, the IPA transcription for "most wafting" is /mɒsts weɪftɪŋ/.