Summary of common pronunciation rules for letters and letters

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Vowel A or a + other letters

Letter or letter combination

Syllable type

Or the position in the word

Read audio

Example words

A Reregister [Ei]

Name, face, take, cake, radio, space
A Repeat closed syllables [A]

Hand, stand, maths, happy
A After W or wh [R]

What, watch, wash
[R:]

Water
AI ay In the re-stressed syllable [Ei]

Wait, train, fail, rain, say, way, May, today
Al Before most consonants [R:]

Ball, wall, small, talk
[R: l]

Also, always
Before F, m [A:]

Half, palm (palm tree)

Ar In the re-stressed syllable [A:]

Star, card, party
Ar After W or wh [R:]

Warm, wharf (Pier)

AU aw In the re-stressed syllable [R:]

Autumn, because, draw, saw
Air are In the re-stressed syllable [Z []

Chair, hair, pair, Hare, care
Ass In the re-stressed syllable [A: S]

Ass, glass, Class

Vowel e or E + other letters

Letter or letter combination

Syllable type

Or the position in the word

Pronunciation

Example words

E Reregister

[I:] She, we, these, relay
Repeat closed syllables

[E] Well, get, very, step
EA In the re-stressed syllable

[I:] Seat, read, tea, easy
[E] Bread, Head, ready
EE In the re-stressed syllable

[I:] Tree, week, green
Er In the re-stressed syllable

[[:]

Her, term, verb

Vowel I or I + other letters

Letter or letter combination Syllable type or position in a word Pronunciation Example words

I (y) Reregister [Ai] Mine, quite, like, side, Friday, my, by, why
Repeat closed syllables [I] Milk, ship, it, with, window, begin
IE In the re-stressed syllable, before the consonants [I:] Field, piece
At the end of the syllable word [Ai] Lie, die, tie
Weigh In the re-stressed syllable [Ai] Night, right, high
IR In the re-stressed syllable [[:]

First, skirt, girl

Uppercase and lowercase letters

Letter or letter combination Syllable type or position in a word Pronunciation Example words
O Reregister [[U]

No, go, nose, home
Repeat closed syllables [R]

Not, dog, hot, stop
Before m, n, V, or th [Q]

Come, month, love, brother, nothing
OA In the re-stressed syllable [[U]

Coat, boat, Road
Oi Oy In the re-stressed syllable [Ri]

Noise, join, boy, toy
Oo In most cases [U:] School, too, cool
Before K [U] Book, look, cook
Or In the re-stressed syllable [R:]

Sport, horse, forty
Behind W [[:]

Work, worse, worker
Ou In most cases [Au] Round, house, about
Before ght [R:]

Ought (should)

Ow In the re-stressed syllable [Au] Cow, now, down, how
In re-stressed or unre-Stressed syllables [[U]

Know, grow, show, window, yellow

Vowel U or U + other letters

Letter or letter combination Syllable type or position in a word Pronunciation Example words
U Reregister [Ju:] Use, duty, excuse
Repeat closed syllables [Q]

But, US, luck
UR

In the re-stressed syllable [[:]

Nurse, turn, hurt, thrusday

A large majority of vowels are read as [[] or [I].

Mother Read audio Example words
A [[]

About, American, <China, breakfast
[I] Orange, comrade, village, message
E [[]

Student, hundred
[I] Jacket, begin, harvest
I (y) [I] Coming, dining-room, country, country
O [[]

O 'clock, mongoeman

U [[]

Autumn

Pronunciation rules for the combination of consonants and consonants

Letter or letter combination Syllable type or position in a word Pronunciation Example words
C Before E, I, y [S] Nice, penpencil, bicycle
Before a, O, U, and consonants L, R, T, and at the end of the syllable [K] Cap, come, cut, clock, cry, picture, music
Ch [TF]

Much, Chair, China, teacher
G In most cases [G] Go, Big, Garden
Before E [DV]

Page, orange, large
J [DV]

Jack, jacket, June, John
KN [N] Knife, know, knock
Ll [L] Ball, tell, still
NG [N]

Sing, long, something
[Ng]

English, longer
NK [NK]

Ink, think, thanks
PH [F] Physics (physical)

Qu [KW] Quite, quick, quarter
Sh [F]

She, shoe, English, short
Tch [TF]

Watch, fetch (Take, take)

Th [W]

Thing, thank, month
[T]

This, that,
Wh Before letter O [H] WHO, whose, whom
[W] Where, what, when, why
WR [R] Write, wrong
X [Ks] Box, next, exercise
[GZ] Exam, Example
Y [J] Yes, you, year, yourself

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