Phonemes: Spelling + examples

“ee” - see, green, tree …

/iː/ “ei” - either , receive …
“ea” - meal, leak , read , beach…

“e” - men , fell, every …

/e/ “ea” - death, bread, head…
“a” - many ; any
*exceptions: friend , said
/æ/ “a” – man, cat, hat, bat…

/i/ “i” + Consonant – win, this, hit, trip , in

“y” + Consonant - gym

/ə/ Represented by different letters in the same word. It

occurs in unstressed syllables.
Ej: garden ; away ; banana ; colour ; support…

“u” - but, cut, cup…

/ʌ / “o” - come
“ou” – country, couple, enough
“oe” – does
“oo” - blood , flood (exceptions)
/ʊ/ “oo” + d / k - hood , look, good, book , cook…
“u” + sh - bush, push, cushion
/ʒː/ “ear” , “our”, “or”, “ur” (in stressed syllable) – heard,
journey, work, fur, turn…
/ɑː/ “a” + r – farm, alarm, arm, start, dark…
“a” + l – palm, calm, balm…

/uː/ “oo” + l/ m/ n/ - school, broom , moon…

Extra examples: fruit, group, through

/ɔː / “o” + ff – off, offer

“o” + ng – long , strong
“aw” - saw , draw
“a” +ll /lk / lt / ld – ball, talk, salt, bald…
/ɒ / “o” + Consonant – stop, lot, mob, dog, lock, rock, got
Extra examples: cough, want, wrong