The word "varnes" is spelled with a "v," a short "a" sound, an "r," a long "e" sound, and an "s" at the end. In IPA phonetic transcription, this would be represented as /vɑrnz/. The "v" sound is a voiced labiodental fricative, the "a" sound is an open back unrounded vowel, the "r" is an alveolar approximant, the "e" sound is a close-mid front unrounded vowel, and the final "s" is an unvoiced alveolar fricative.