| CCVCCs | Three consonant sounds after the vowel | Three consonant sounds before the vowel |
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give me 5 sound words please
Hi Kimberley, not sure exactly what you mean. Do you mean you need a bigger list?
You have many words that are not the number of phonemes you think. For example, thump has only 4 sounds. /TH/ is one sound, then /u/ /m/ /p/.
Strung is only 4 phomemes as well. /s/ /t /r/ /ung/
Hi Sandra, I have “thumps” which is 5 phonemes, not “thump” on this page, and “ung” is a rime unit not a phoneme, so strung is 5 phonemes too.
I believe “strung” has 6 rather than 5 phonemes:
/s/ /t/ /r/ /^/ /n/ /g/
Maybe it does in your accent, but in mine there is no /g/ in ‘string’, the final phoneme is /ng/ (velar nasal).
Thank you so much for this list of 5 sound words!
Can you make a list that goes up to 9 phonemes?
If you can tell me a one-syllable word that contains nine phonemes, sure. But I think the maximum is seven, three consonants either side of the vowel. There are some one-syllable words with four consonants after the vowel e.g. ‘twelfths’ and ‘texts’, but I’ve never found one that has three before and four after. All the best, Alison