Vowel Minimal Pairs

Pronunciation Practice (List 3)

Vowel contrast / iː / - / ɪ / Vowel contrast / æ / - / ʌ /

Vowel iː ɪ Vowel æ ʌ
1 bean bin 1 bat but
2 cheap chip 2 cap cup
3 he’s his 3 cat cut
4 eat it 4 match much
5 seat sit 5 bat but
6 deed did 6 cap cup
7 feel fill 7 bad bud
8 feet fit 8 began begun
9 green grin 9 drank drunk
10 heat hit 10 fan fun
11 ease is 11 hat hut
12 meet mitt 12 ran run
13 sleep slip 13 sang sung
14 steal still 14 swam swum
15 beat bit 15 back buck
16 beach bitch 16 crash crush
17 each itch 17 dad dud
18 gene gin 18 brash brush
19 heed hid 19 ham hum
20 he’ll hill 20 hang hung

Vowel contrast / æ / - / ɑː / Vowel contrast / ʊ / - / uː /

Vowel æ ɑː Vowel ʊ uː
1 back bark 1 full fool
2 fat fart 2 look Luke
3 had hard 3 pull pool
4 hat hard 4 soot suit
5 jazz jars 5 hood Who’d
6 bad bard 6 bull Boole
7 ban barn 7 should shoed
8 cad card 8 could cooed
9 ham harm 9 would wooed
10 match March 10 stood stewed
11 pack park 11 good gooed
12 pax parks 12 looker lucre
13 cabs carbs
14 cap carp
15 cat cart
16 chat chart
17 lack lark
18 pat part
19 mad marred
20 tap tarp