Vowel

Phonemes
Phoneme

Example words with (phonetic transcriptions)

a-

cat (kat)

laugh (laf)

peg (peg-)

bread (bred-)

friend (frend)

i-

pig (pig-)

busy (bizee)

gym (jim)

England (inglind)

log (log-)

honest (onist)

cot (kot)

plug (plug-)

love (luv)

blood (blud)

double (dubul)

putt (put-)

ae

pain (paen)

day (dae)

gate (gaet)

filet (filae)

gauge (gaej)

ee

sweet (sweet-)

heat (heet)

thief (theef)

these (theez)

ski (skee)

ie

tried (tried-)

light (liet)

guy (gie)

shine (shien)

height (hiet)

oe

road (roed)

blow (bloe)

bone (boen)

ue

moon (muen)

blue (blue-)

grew (grue)

fruit (fruet)

shoe (shue)

oo

look (look-)

would (wood-)

put (poot)

wolf (woof)

au

paw (pau)

ball (baul)

caught (kaut)

ur

burn (burn-)

circus (surkus)

sister (sistur)

pearl (purl)

word (wurd)

ow

down (down-)

shout (showt)

oi

coin (koin)

boy (boi)

or-

orange (orinj)

poor (por)

board (bord)

ar

car (kar)

heart (hart)

sergeant (sarjint)

aer

stare (staer)

chair (chaer)

prayer (praer)

where (waer)

their (thaer)

uer

tourist (tuerist)

cure (kyuer)

Consonant Phonemes
Phoneme

Example words with (phonetic transcriptions)

baby (baebee)

bug (bug)

dig (dig)

add (ad)

milled (mild-)

field (feeld)

photo (foetoe)

enough (eenuf)

half (haf)

game (gaem)

ghost (goest)

guest (gest)

hat (hat)

who (hue)

judge (juj)

giant (jie-int)

barge (barj)

wage (waej)

edge (ej)

cook (kook)

quick (kwik)

mix (miks)

Chris (kris)

bouquet (buekae)

lamb (lam)

well (wel)

monkey (munkee)

comb (koem)

nut (nut)

knife (nief)

gnat (nat)

paper (paepur)

pin (pin-)

rabbit (rabit)

wrong (rong)

rhyme (riem)

sun (sun-)

mouse (mows-)

psycho (sie-koe)

science (sie-ins)

pace (paes)

tap (tap-)

ripped (ript)

van (van-)

Stephen (steevin)

of (uv)

was (wuz)

why (wie)

quick (kwik)

choir (kwie-ur)

yes (yes-)

onion (unyun)

zebra (zee-bru)

please (pleez)

is (iz)

scissors (sizurz)

th

then (then-)

thin (thin-)

leather (lethur)

ch

chip (chip-)

future (fyuechur)

righteous (riechus)

sh

ship (ship-)

mission (mishin)

chef (shef)

special (speshul)

zh

treasure (trezhur)

usual (yuezhueul)

division (divizhun)

-ng

ring (ring-)

spring (spring-)

tongue (tung)

ocean (oeshin)