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Examples
28.9
17.8
6.5
6.3
5.7
4.4
4.1
4.0
3.7
3.7
3.7
2.6
2.3
1.8
1.7
1.2
1.1
0.5
0.5
0.5
| Franglish |
PHONEMS in the ENGLISH LANGUAGE
(database of 70,000 words)
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Examples |
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28.9
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chin, ship, rich, sit, private, village, Monday, Tuesday, England, pretty, wicked, wanted, buses, houses, pigeon, Barley, sieve, mischief, cities, ladies, carried, women, minute, busy, lettuce, symbol, city |
17.8
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attend, caricature, particular, velar, accurate, consummate, teacher, perhaps, thorough, borough, marvelous, enormous, suppository, but , |
6.5
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cat, patch, slam, smack, rang, sand, ramp, plaid, plait |
6.3
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bed, went, pet, many, ate, Thames, said, any, again, says, sweat, dead, head, leisure, Leicester, leopard, jeopardy, friend, lieutenant, bury |
5.7
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great, break, steak, weight, eight, veil, theyfame, lady, game, raise, jail, create, intimate, day, play, Gaelic, gauge, halfpenny, gaol |
4.4
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gone, dog, cost, sausage, because, Australia, cauliflower, honour, honest, Gloucester, cough, trough, knowledge, |
4.1
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tile, mine, file, advice, fine, side, aisle, height, either, sleight, mind, idea, die, high, thigh, night, choir, buy, spy, dry, rye, dye, eye |
4.0
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but, hut, blush, sun, nut, cutdone, cover, won, mother, son, money, month, thorough, does, blood, flood, rough, country, southern, courage, young, colour |
3.7
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no, home, go, gold, soap, boat, toast, toe, goes, hoe, though, show, own, row , know, tow, crow, brooch, shoulder, poultry, soul, mauve, bureau, beau, portmanteau, yeoman, sew, |
3.7
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these, delete, feed, cheese, tree, sheep, beat, clean, seize, receive, key, people, machine, police, piece, field, encyclopaedia, Caesar, aeolian, quay |
3.7
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broad, board, oar, floor, door, born, cork, horse, port, core, shore, thought, mourning, Sean |
2.6
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blue, flue, fruit, juice, flew, chew, drew, few, knew, do, move, tomb, womb, fool, food, boot, school, shoe, canoe, manœuvre, group, through, rule, rude, tune, Sioux |
2.3
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class, after, car, park, gasp, calm, half, Charles, garden, aunt, laugh, draught, clerk, sergeant, Derby, Berkeley, Berks, heart, hearth |
1.8
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librarian, real, idea, pier, pierce |
1.7
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word, work, world, colonel,attorney, journey, journal, courteous, church, burn, Guernesey, myrtle, myrrh, earn, Earth, heard, verse, serve, connoisseur, amateur, chauffeur, bird, girl, stir, shirt, Yorkshire |
1.2
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house, pound, loud, how, cow, now, brown, frown, row, McLeod |
1.1
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good, foot, would, could, should, woman, bosom, into, wolf, book, , courier, bouquet, Worcester, Worsted, full, put, push |
0.5
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care, scarce, spare, aeroplane, air, pair, parents, prayer, mayor, pear, tear, swear, heir, their, where, there |
0.5
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poor, moor, tour, dour, Boer, sure, pure, cure, , jury, curious, Europe, jewel, sewer |
0.5
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boy, coy, toy, boil, coin, groin, joint |
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higher, liable, client, science, riot, fire, tired, iron, choir, tyre |
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conveyance, greyer, surveyor |
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joyable, soya, employer, joyous |
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flower, hour, our, sour, nowadays, coward, towel, shower |
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Noah, church-goer, slower |
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humanity, humiliation, Tuesday, pursue, queue, euthanasia, nuisance, suitable |
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12.6 |
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no, ton (mute in: autumn, hymn,solemn, ...) |
10.5 |
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two, stoop, boot, Thames, Thomson (mute in: mortgage, castle, rustle, fasten, glisten, waistcoat, ...) |
8.4 |
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let , bell (mute in: calm, folk, half, salmon, should, talk, ...) |
7.8 |
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see, city, aspect (mute in: aisle, island, isle, ...) |
7.1 |
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run, very, affair (mute before a consonant: farm, forty, ...) |
6.9 |
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cat, character, kill, skin, queen, thick (mute in initial 'kn': knee, knock, know, ) |
6.5 |
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do, oddity, cod (mute in 'and' before a consonant: handsome, grandmother,Wednesday
) |
4.8 |
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ablaze, accuse , AIDS + most finals in plurals after a vowel sound: boys, knees, plans, ... |
4.8 |
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pan, span, tap (mute in initial pt, pn, ps: pterodactyl, pneumonia, pseudo, psychology) |
4.5 |
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man, ham |
3.3 |
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bat, lab (mute in: lamb, limb, thumb, womb, ...) |
2.8 |
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among, long, _ing (letter g is always mute in that final ng cluster) |
2.7 |
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fool, enough, phonem (mute in: halfpenny) |
2.6 |
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pass, face, abuse, climax, most plurals (mute in: corps, debris, Illinois, ...) |
2.0 |
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voice, Stephen, nephew, have |
1.9 |
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get, agree, beg (mute in final ng + initial gn: gnat, gnome, ...) |
1.9 |
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show, sure, sugar, emotion, leash |
1.4 |
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wet, tower, snow (mute in: answer, Greenwich, sword, two, ... ) |
1.3 |
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zoo, rose, dessert, possess, scissors |
1.3 |
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normally mute at the end of words except for American speakers |
1.2 |
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gin, jet, enjoy, edge |
1.1 |
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hat, who, whom, whose, whole (mute in: heir, honest, honesty, honour, hour, exhausted, vehicle, annihilate, cheetah, verandah) |
1.1 |
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yes, yacht, euphoria, llama, Jung, millionaire, UK |
0.8 |
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chair, cello, nature, teach, Tudor, Czech, Tchaikowsky |
0.5 |
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think, Anthony, breath |
0.2 |
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this, rhythm, booth, breathe, Gwynedd |
0.1 |
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pleasure, beige, garage, vision, inclusion |