Vow Conssss
Vow Conssss
Vow Conssss
A consonant letter usually represents one consonant sound. Some consonant letters, for
example, c, g, s, can represent two different consonant sounds.
Letters
Sounds
Examples
[b]
baby, best, buy, bring, blind, absent, about, number, labor, robber, tub
[s]
[k]
[d]
day, dear, die, door, duty, admire, hidden, lady, kind, ride, ended
[f]
fast, female, five, forest, fund, fry, flight, often, deaf, cuff
[g]
[j]
[zh]
game, gap, get, go, gun, great, global, giggle, ago, begin, dog, egg;
general, gin, giant, agent, suggest, Egypt, energy, huge, manage;
mirage, garage, beige, rouge
[h]
[-]
[j]
jam, Jane, jet, jelly, Jim, jingle, joke, John, June, just
[k]
[l]
late, let, live, alone, close, slim, please, old, nicely, table, file, all
[m]
make, men, mind, mother, must, my, common, summer, name, form,
team
[n]
napkin, never, night, no, nuclear, funny, student, kindness, ton, sun
[p]
paper, person, pick, pour, public, repair, apple, keep, top, crisp
q (qu)
[kw]
[k]
[r]
rain, red, rise, brief, grow, scream, truck, arrive, hurry, turn, more, car
[s]
[z]
[t]
task, tell, time, tone, tune, hotel, attentive, student, boat, rest
[v]
vast, vein, vivid, voice, even, review, invest, give, move, active
[w]
wall, war, way, west, wind, word, would, swear, swim, twenty, twist
[ks]
[gz]
[z]
[z]
[ts]
[z]
[iz]
[d]
[id]
Consonant combinations
Letters
Sounds
Examples
cc
[ks]
[k]
ch
tch
[ch]
ch (Latin, Greek)
ch (French)
[k]
[sh]
ck
[k]
dge
[j]
gh
[g]
[f]
[-]
gu
[g]
[gw]
ng
[]
[]+[g]
ph
[f]
qu
[kw]
[k]
sc
[s]
[sk]
sch
[sk]
[sh]
sh
[sh]
th
[]
[]
wh
[w]
[h]
xh
[ks]
exhibition;
[ks]+[h] exhumation, exhume, exhale;
[g]+[z] exhaust, exhibit, exhilarate, exhort, exhume, exhale
Sounds
Examples
bt, pt
[t]
kn, gn, pn
[n]
mb, lm
[m]
ps
[s]
rh
[r]
wr
[r]
Letters in the
suffix
Sounds
Examples
[sh]
si, su
[zh]