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[k]
[d]
[f]
day, dear, die, door, duty, admire, hidden, lady, kind, ride, ended
fast, female, five, forest, fund, fry, flight, often, deaf, cuff
[g]
game, gap, get, go, gun, great, global, giggle, ago, begin, dog, egg;
[j]
[zh]
[h]
[-]
[j]
[k]
[l]
[m]
[n]
[p]
jam, Jane, jet, jelly, Jim, jingle, joke, John, June, just
Kate, kind, kill, kilogram, sky, blanket, break, take, look
late, let, live, alone, close, slim, please, old, nicely, table, file, all
make, men, mind, mother, must, my, common, summer, name, form, team
napkin, never, night, no, nuclear, funny, student, kindness, ton, sun
paper, person, pick, pour, public, repair, apple, keep, top, crisp
[kw]
[k]
[r]
rain, red, rise, brief, grow, scream, truck, arrive, hurry, turn, more, car
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[z]
[t]
[v]
[w]
task, tell, time, tone, tune, hotel, attentive, student, boat, rest
vast, vein, vivid, voice, even, review, invest, give, move, active
wall, war, way, west, wind, word, would, swear, swim, twenty, twist
[ks]
[gz]
[z]
[z]
[ts]
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[i], [ai].
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[i]: baby, hurry, lyrics, mystery;
[ai]: by, try, rely, nylon, type;
[y]: yacht, yard, year, yes, yet, yield, you, young, Yukon.
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: [s])
[s]
tapes [teips], streets
[stri:ts], parks [pa:rks],
chiefs [chi:fs], myths
[mi s]
: [z])
s, z, x, ch, tch, ge, dge, sh: [iz])
[z]
ribs [ribz], kids [kidz], legs [legz],
leaves [li:vz], clothes [klouz], girls,
games, cars, boys, pies [paiz], cows
[kauz], cities ['sitiz]
(he) robs [robz], reads [ri:dz], digs
(he) grips [grips], writes
[digz], saves [seivz], falls, plans, swims,
[raits], takes [teiks],
offers, plays, cries, goes [gouz], copies
sniffs [snifs]
['kopiz]
Abe's [eibz], Fred's [fredz], Meg's
Pip's [pips], Kate's
[keits], Mike's [maiks], [megz], Olive's ['olivz], Ben's [benz],
Jeff's [jefs], Seth's [se s] Molly's ['moliz], Anna's
[iz]
pieces ['pi:siz], roses ['rouziz], prizes
['praiziz], boxes ['boksiz], coaches
['kouchiz], bridges ['brijiz], dishes
['dishiz]
(he) kisses ['kisiz], loses ['lu:ziz],
relaxes, catches, judges, manages,
flashes, washes, rouges
Chris's ['krisiz], Tess's ['tesiz], Rose's
['rouziz], Liz's ['liziz], Rex's ['reksiz],
George's ['jo:rjiz]
: [t])
[t]
stopped [stopt], liked [laikt],
coughed [ko:ft], crossed [cro:st],
released [ri'li:st], reached
[ri:cht], washed [wosht]
: [d])
t, d: [id])
[d]
robbed [robd], saved [seivd], seized
[si:zd], called [ko:ld], planned,
occurred, bathed [beid], managed,
played, tried, studied
[id]
wanted ['wontid], hated ['heitid],
counted ['kauntid], started,
needed [ni:did], loaded ['loudid],
folded, added
Consonant combinations
Letters
Sounds Examples
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ch
tch
ch (Latin, Greek)
[k]
ch (French)
[sh]
ck
dge
[k]
[j]
[g]
[f]
[-]
[g]
[gw]
gh
gu
ng
]+[g] finger, anger, angry, longer, longest, single
ph
[f]
[kw]
[k]
[s]
[sk]
[sk]
[sh]
schnauzer, schedule
sh
[sh]
th
qu
sc
sch
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[ks]
exhibition;
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Examples
doubt, debt, subtle; receipt, pterodactyl
knee, knife, know; gnome, sign, foreign; pneumonia, pneumatic
lamb, climb, bomb, comb, tomb; calm, palm, salmon
psalm, pseudonym, psychologist, psychiatrist
rhapsody, rhetoric, rheumatism, rhythm, rhyme
wrap, wreck, wrestle, wrinkle, wrist, write, wrong
Examples
nation, patient, special, vicious, pension, Asia, sensual, pressure
vision, fusion, Asia, usual, visual, measure, pleasure
Read more about consonant letters and sounds in Spelling Patterns for Consonants and Silent Letters in
the section Writing.
Spelling Patterns for Consonants
Letters
Silent
Writing.
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