a [ei]:
base, cake, chase, date, face, gate, hate, jade, kale, late, make, name, pave, quake, rate, same, take, vane, wake
a [? ]:
bag, cat, dad, fat, gas, hat, jam,kat, lad, map, nab, pan, rack, sad, tap, vat, zap
wa, wha [? ]:
want, wash, what, watch
a/a:/:
ass/a:s/, ast/a:st/, ask/a:sk/, asp/a:sp/, ath/a: θ/, aff/a:f/, ant/a:nt/
class, last, ask, grasp, bath, staff, plant
a[? ]:
ago, about, above, again, sofa, china, america, canada
a[i]:
cabbage, message, village, climate, necklace, palace
ai/ei/:
aim, fail, pain, rain, tail, wait, (said)
ai/i/:
captain, mountain, fountain
air[ε? ]:
chair, fair, hair, pair, stair
al[? :]:
chalk, talk, walk (shall, half)
ar[a:]:
arm, car, dark, far, garden, harm, jar, large, mark, park, star, yard, (warm)
ar[? :]:
quar/kw ? :/, war /w? :/,whar/w? :/
quarter , war, warm, warn
ar[? ]:
dollar, beggar
are[ε? ]:
care, dare, fare, share
au[? :]:
autumn, cause, pause, (aunt, laugh)
aw[? :]
draw,law, raw, saw, yawn
ay[ei]:
day, lay, may, pay, ray, say, pay, way, (says)
ay[i]:
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday
Pronunciation of the letter b in words
b[b]:
base, bad, bed, be, bike, bit, book, both, bus, cab, job, rob
mb/m/, bt/t/:
climb, comb, lamb, doubt
bb/b/:
cabbage, hobby, rabbit, rubber, rubbish
ble/bl/, bble/bl/:
table, bubble
Pronunciation of the letter c in words
C/k/(c comes before vowel letters a,o,u):
ca/kei/, ca/ k? /, ca/k ? /, co/k ? u/, co/k ? /,co/k ? /, coo/ku/, cu/k ? /
cage, cap, cock, come, cup, cut
C/k/(c comes before consonants):
clean, clear, cry, cross, fact, doctor
C/k/(c at the end):
music, picnic, traffic
C/s/(c comes before vowels E, I, Y):
cent, centre, city, cycle
Ce/s/ (at the end):
face, nice, ice
c/ ? /:
cia, cie, ciou[? ]:
social, sufficient, precious
Cc/k/ (before vowel letters A, O, U and consonant letters):
occasion, tobacco
Cc/ks (before vowels e, i, y):
accept, accident
ch[t? ]
china, child, children, each, lunch, much, teach
Ch [? ]:
ma-chi-ne ,champagne
ch/k/
ache, chemical, christmas, echo, technical
ck/k/
back, duck, lack, thick, chicken, pocket
Pronunciation of the letter d in words
d[d]
and, card, hand, need, dust, study
de/d/
made, ride, wide
dd/d/
add, odd, ladder, sudden, middle
d/ d? /
soldier
d//
wednesday, handsome, handkerchief
dge/ d? /
bridge, edge, judge, badge, knowledge
dj/ d? /
adjust, adjudge
dr/dr/
dream, dress, draw, hundred
Pronunciation of the letter e in words
e/i:/
he, she, even, fever, metre, these
e/e/
bed, desk, get, leg, lesson, message, neck, pen, rest, send, ten
e/i/
before, cinema, decide, enjoy, jacket, harvest, English, England
e/ ? /
open, garden, lilent, travel
ea/i:/
each, easy, eat, beat, cheap, dream, leaf, meat, sea, team
ea/e/
read, dead, head, breakfast, feather, ready, sweat, weather
ea/ei/
break, great
ea/i? /
area, idea, real, theater
ee/i:/
beef, deep, free, meet, green, sleep, agree, between, three
ee/i/
coffee, committee
ei/ei/
veil, vein , rein
ei/i:/
ceiling, receive
ei/ai/
either, neither
er/ ? :/
her, term, certain, persom, serve
er/a:/
clerk
er/ ? /
teacher, farmer, dinner, order, modern
ear/ i? /
ear, dear, fear, near, tear, year
ear/ε? /
bear, pear, wear
ear/ ? : /
early, earn, earth, learn, search
ear/a:/
heart
eer/i? /
beer, deer, pioneer, engineer
ere/ i? /
here, adhere, sphere
ere/ε? /
there, where
ere/ ? :/
were
eigh/ei/
eight, neighbor, weight, freight, sleigh
eigh/ai/
height
Pronunciation of the letter f in words
f/f/, fe/f/, ff/f/
leef, roof, fat, fan, fox, left, after, life, wife, off
f/v/
of
Pronunciation of the letter g in words
g/g/
game, gas, gold, good, gulf, get, got, gun, gift, girl, give, forget, begin
G/g/ (before consonants)
glad, glass, ugly, single
G/g/ (at the end of the word)
bag, dog, fog, leg, pig
g/ d? /
pigeon, vegetable, magic, gym
ge/ d? /
age, cage, large, page
gn/ ? /
foreign, gnaw, gnash, design
gg/g/
egg, foggy, wiggle, luggage
gg/d? /
suggest
gh//
fight, light, might, right, high, darghter,straight
gh/f/
laugh, tough, rough, enough, cough
gh/g/
ghost, ghastly
Pronunciation of the letter h in words
h/h/
hat, help, hill, home, hope, house
h//
hour, hourly, honest, vehicle, forehead
Pronunciation of the letter I in words
i/ai/
ind/aind/, ild/aild/
find, kind, mind, child, wild
i/i/
big, fish, gift, milk, give, pick, rich, ship, thin, this, give, wind, animal, capital, English, family, mistake
i/ ? /
holiday, april
ie/i:/
field, piece, thief, believe
ie/ai/
die, lie, pie, tie
ie/ai? /
diet, quiet, science, society
ie/e/
friend, firiendly, friendship
ir/ ? :/
bird, circle, first, girl, dirty, shirt, skirt, thirty
ire/ai? /
fire, hire, tire, wire, admire, desire, require
igh/ai/
bright, fight, light, night, right, high
ign/ain/
sign, assign, design, resign
Pronunciation of the letter j in words
j/d? /
injure, jeep, joke, jump, just
Pronunciation of the letter k in words
k/k/
ask, book, cake, desk, joke, kill, park, work
Kn/n/
knee, kneel, knife, knock, know
Pronunciation of the letter l in words
apple, black, clean, flag, hole, leg, nail, place
alf/a:f/, alm/a:m/, alk/ ? :k/,
calf, half, calm, chalk, talk
olk/? uk/,olm/? um/
folk, yolk, holm
ould/ud/
could, should, would
ll/l/
bill, call, dull, million, silly, yellow
Pronunciation of the letter m in words
m/m/
arm, camp, gum, lamp, room,map, room, warm
mm/m/
grammar, hammer, summer, swimming
Pronunciation of the letter n in words
bend, enter, fond, noble, pine, spend
nk/ ? k /, ng/ ? g/, nx/? ks/
bank, drink, ink, think
ng/ ? g/
anger, angle, English, single, hunger
ng/ ? /
bring, hang, king, long, sing, thing
mn/m/
autumn, column, hymn
nn/n/
dinner, funny, sunny, winner
Pronunciation of the letter o in words
o/ ? u/
go, no, hope, note, rose, smoke, hotel, both
o\ u:\
do, to, move
o/? /
come, love, some
o/ ? /
box, clock, dog, fox, job, shop, wrong
o/ ? /
consider, memory, obey, today, November
o/ ? /
come, some, money, none, ton, cover, glove, love, mother, other,one
oa/? u /
boat, coat, goal, road, soap, toast
oa/ ? : /
abroad, broad, broadcast
oar/ ? :/
board, roar, blackboard, keyboard
oi/ ? i /
boil, coin, point, soil, noise, choice
oy/ ? i /
boy, joy
oo/u:/
boot, choose, food, moon, pool, room, tooth, shoot, zoo
oo/u/
book, cook, hook, look, foot, goot, wood, wool
oo/? /
blood, flood
or/ ? :/
for, horse, north, short, sport, morning
or/ ? : /
word, work, world
or/ ? /
actor, doctor, mirror, visitor, forget, comfort
ou/ au /
loud, cloud, about, blouse, ground, mountain
ou/ ? u /
mould, shoulder
ou/u:/
group, route, soup, you, wound
ou/u/
could, should, would
ou/ ? /
country, courage, double, touch, young
ous/? s/
famous, dangerous, nervous
our/ au? /
our, hour, sour, flour
our/? :/
four, your, course, source
our/ ? /
colour, harbour, honour, labour
ow /au /
cow, how, now, down, flower, shower, power
ow/ ? u /
flow, grow, know, show, bowl, snow, window
ow/ ? /
knowledge, acknowledge
p/p/
cup, map, top, help, pig, open
p//
receipt, cupboard, psychology
ph/f/
graph, photograph, telegraph, geography, orphan, physics
pp/p/
apple, happen, happy, supper, upper
Pronunciation of the letter q in words
q/k/, que/k/
Iraq, cheque, unique, liquor, antique, technique
qu/kw/
quest, question, request, equal, square, quick
Pronunciation of the letter r in words
r/r/
red, rest, rat, read, agree, free, reach, thread
rr/r/
berry, carry, hurry, narrow, arrow
Pronunciation of the letter s in words
star, smile, spring, school, sweet, books, maps, helps
sk/sk/, sp/sp/, sq/sk/, st/st/
ask, desk, grasp, cast, list, rest, mosquito
s/z/
gosling, husband, wisdom, cosmetic, girls, rooms, begs
sia/ ? /
Asia, Asian, Persia
sion, ssion/ ? n/, sure, ssure/ ? u? /
version, mansion, ensure,extension, fassion, Russia, Russian,issure, pressure
sion/ ? n /,sure/? /
measure, pleasure, television, occasion
sh/ ? /
dish, brush, wash, she, ship, shell
ss/s/
lesson, possible, assist, message
Pronunciation of the letter t in words
t/t/
bat, cat, east, west, best, table, text, teddy, tell, told
t/? /, tial/? l/, tient/? n/
essential, potential, patience, patient
t/t? /, stion/t? n/
century, question
t//
listen, often, faster, castle, nestle, whistle, Christmas
tch/ t? /
catch, match, watch, Dutch, switch
th/θ/
three, thing, thank, throw, both, cloth, earth, mouth, tooth, nothing, method, birthday, athlete, through, throughout
th/ ? /
with, smooth, this, these, they, then, there, thus, than, the,though, although, bathe, father, mother
tion/ ? n /
nation, caution, mention, function
tt/t/
letter, matter, bottle, cattle, settle
ture/t? /
nature, adventure, future, mixture
Pronunciation of the letter u in words
u/ju:/
use, duty, future, excuse, huge, pupil
u/u:/
blue, rule, june, junior, include
u/? /
bus, cut, dust, just, sun, gun, fun, club, brush
u/u/
bush, full, pull, push
u/ ? /
autumn, column, injury, industry, minimum, support
ui/ju:/
suit, suitable, suitcase
ui/u:/
fruit, juice
ui/i/
build, biscuit, guitar, circuit, guilt
ur/ ? :/
nurse, turkey, hurt, church, burn, suburb
ur/ ? /
Saturday, surprise, survive, murmur, pursue,
ure/ju? /
cure, endure, mature, pure, secure
ure/ u? /
sure, insure, assure
ure/ ? /
nature, figure, measure, capture, closure, exposure
uy/ai/
buy, guy
Pronunciation of the letter v in words
v/v/
five, drive, travel, cover
Pronunciation of the letter w in words
w/w/
week, wet, well, winter, win, way, swim, twice, between
wr/r/
write, wrong, wrap, wreck, wrinkle
w//
who, whom, whose, whole, answer, two
wh/w/
what, when, where, which, white, why
Pronunciation of the letter x in words
x/ks/
box, six, text, next, exit
x/gz/
exist, exact, exam, example, exhaust, exhibit
x/ k? /
anxious
Pronunciation and spelling exercises of the letter y in words
y/j/
yes, year, you, yellow, young
y/ai/
my, sky, fly, cry, try, satisfy
y/i/
any, early, heavy, symbol, system
Pronunciation of the letter z in words
z/z/
zoo, zero, lazy, size
zz/z/
buzz, jazz, puzzle