The Consonant Sounds of English

Dictionary IPA Grouping Voiced or Voiceless Words with Sound

1. b [b] Plosive Voiced Bulb, bib, bob, rub, baby, bamboo

2. p [p] Plosive Voiceless Pair, poet, punish, rope, lip, help

3. d [d] Plosive Voiced Damp, adorn, seed, dawn, build

4. t [t] Plosive Voiceless Time, tan, later, ought, lent, enter

5. g [g] Plosive Voiced Gold, green, fog, vague, hungry

6. k [k] Plosive Voiceless Cool, curl, keep, ache, atomic

7. z [z] Fricative Voiced Zero, zone, frozen, news, advise

8. s [s] Fricative Voiceless Speak, see, miss, race, accept

9. v [v] Fricative Voiced Very, vivid, groove, save, heaven

10. f [f] Fricative Voiceless Fine, fields, rough, grief, hyphen

11. th [ð] Fricative Voiced Other, bathe, without, smooth

12. th [θ] Fricative Voiceless Birthday, anything, earth, month

13. w [w] Glide Voiced Quality, reward, awaken, worry

14. hw [hw or [៳] Glide Voiceless What, somewhere, bullwhip,

when

15. zh [з] Frictave Voiced Confusion, rouge, prestige, azure

16. sh [∫] Frictave Voiceless She, nation, wish, squash, shop

17. j [ʤ] Combination Voiced Wages, fudge, ledger, just, gem

18. ch [tʃ] Combination Voiceless Chip,nature, choose, arch, itchy

19. m [m] Nasal Voiced Most, climb, remember, murder

20. n [n] Nasal Voiced Net, kneel, ruin, plane, nation

21. ng [ŋ] Nasal Voiced Sing, ringer, gang, tongue

22. l [I] Semivowel Voiced Love, salt, vanilla, long, soul, well

23. y [j] Glide Voiced You, onion, useful,yellow, failure

24. h [h] Frictave Voiceless How, behave, unhinge, humid, hill

25. r [r] Semivowel Voiced Rub, ever, compare, race, road