Phonetic Symbols – Consonants

Letter B

/b/ sound: /b/ as in “butter,” “bag,” “box,” “bank,” “belt.”

Letter C

/k/ sound: /k/ as in “call,” “cat,” “cold,” “smart,” “clean.”

/s/ sound: /s/ as in “cinema,” “cell,” “pen,” “city,” “apartment.”

Letter D

/d/ sound: /d/ as in “duck,” “down,” “drive,” “dig,” “drown,” “drink.”

Letter F

/f/ sound: /f/ as in “five,” “fan,” “for,” “forgive,” “forget,” “eat.”

Letter G

/g/ sound: /g/ as in “grass,” “glue,” “take,” “give,” “gold,” “go,” “goat.”

/ʤ/ sound: /ʤ/ as in “giant,” “gin,” “jewel.”

Letter H

/h/ sound: /h/ as in “hat,” “heat,” “chicken,” “hand,” “house,” “nest.”

Letter J

/ʤ/ sound: /ʤ/ as in “just,” “jam,” “job,” “jump,” “joke.”

Letter K

/k/ sound: /k/ as in “king,” “keep,” “kick,” “kite.”

Letter L

/l/ sound: /l/ as in “let,” “look,” “please,” “plot,” “remove,” “blue,” “black,” “thin,” “stupid.”

Letter M

/m/ sound: /m/ as in “man,” “map,” “mouse,” “market,” “move,” “do,” “some,” “smell,” “smile.”

Letter N

/n/ sound: /n/ as in “not,” “month,” “kind,” “snake,” “afternoon,” “run,” “nine.”

Letter P

/p/ sound: /p/ as in “pink,” “pen,” “aeroplane,” “pay,” “pen,” “pea.”

Letter Q

/kw/ sound: /kw/ as in “fast,” “tail,” “queen,” “question,” “quite.”

Letter R

/r/ sound: /r/ as in “rich,” “road,” “ready,” “grass,” “cry,” “try,” “bring,” “carry.”

Letter S

/s/ sound: /s/ as in “sing,” “sit,” “soup,” “small,” “smell,” “glass,” “dress.”

/z/ sound: /z/ as in “cousin,” “husband,” “goose.”

Letter T

/t/ sound: /t/ as in “ten,” “tooth,” “turn,” “take,” “tool.”

Letter V

/v/ sound: /v/ as in “vet,” “vote,” “live,” “arrive,” “view,” “leave.”

Letter W

/w/ sound: /w/ as in “water,” “want,” “world,” “word,” “wax.”

Words beginning with /wr/ are not pronounced with a /w/ sound. They are pronounced with an /r/ sound: “wrap,” “wrong,” “write.”

Letter Y

/j/ sound: as in “young,” “yes,” “year,” “yacht.”

Letter Z

/z/ sound: /z/ as in “zebra,” “zoo,” “crazy.”