The spelling of the name "Cloey" may seem unusual, but it can be explained through phonetics. The first sound is a voiced velar stop /k/ followed by a voiced lateral approximant /l/, represented as /kl/. The next sound is a diphthong, starting with the open-mid front unrounded vowel /ɛ/ and ending with the mid central vowel /ə/, represented as /ɛə/. Finally, the last sound is a voiced glottal fricative /h/, represented as /h/. So, the IPA transcription for "Cloey" is /klɛəh/.