Letter Sounds

'e' make 'c' sound as 's'

-**ce words**
abeyance	absence	acquaintance	acquiesce	acquiescence	adolescence
advance	advice	affluence	allegiance	alliance	ambulance
announce	apace	appearance	appliance	announce	apprentice
armistice	artifice	askance	attendance	audience	avarice
avoidance	independence	influence
b
balance	beneficence	benevolence	bounce
c
chance	chalice	choice	circumference	circumstance	clearance
coincidence	commence	commerce	commonplace	consequence	convenience
convince	cornice	crevice
d
dance	deduce	deface	defame	deference	defiance
denounce	device	difference	disgrace	displace	distance
divorce
e
chance	chalice	choice	circumference	circumstance	clearance
coincidence	commence	commerce	commonplace	communicate	conscience
consequence	convenience	convince	cornice	crevice
f
face	farce	fence	finance	fierce	fleece
flounce	force
g
glance	grace	Greece	grievance	grimace
i
ice	ignorance	importance	independence	insolence	instance
invoice
j
jaundice	juice
l
lace	lance	lettuce	licence
m
malice	masterpiece	menace	mice	mince
n
necklace	nice	niece	niece	notice	novice
nuisance
o
occurrence	offence	office	once	orifice	ounce
p
pace	palace	patience	peace	pestilence	piece
peirce	pittance	place	police	poultice	pounce
practice	precipice	preface	preference	prejudice	pretence
price	Prince	produce	pronounce
q
quince
r
race	reference	reinforce	remembrance	remittance	renounce
rice	romance
s
sacrifice	sauce	science	sentence	service	silence
slice	sluice	solace	source	space	spice
splice	subsistence	substance	suffice	surface
t
terrace	thrice	trace	trice	truce	twice
v
variance	vengeance	vice	vigilance	violence	voice
w
whence	wince

cannot have 's' at the end of a word

cannot have 's' at the end of a word

-se

Cannot have 's' at the end of a word because it is used to show more than one, the silent letter e goes on the end instead.

The letter 's' can have a hard and soft sound in this list they are all hard 's' words. A soft 's' tends to sound more like a 'z' as in 'rise'

First Letters a , c, d

,

a				'
averse	adverse
c
cease	coarse	collapse	condense	convulse	corpse
course
d
decease	decrease	dense		dispense	disperse
diverse
e
eclipse	elapse	ellipse	else	espouse
f
g
geese	glimpse	goose	grease	grouse
h
hoarse	horse	house
i
immense	incense	increase	intense
l
lapse	lease	license	loose
m
mouse
n
nonsense	noose	nurse
o
obtuse	obverse
p
perverse	porpoise	practise	profuse	promise	pulse
purchase	purchase	purse
r
recompense	refuse	rehearse	reimburse	relapse	release
remorse	repulse	reverse	sense	souse	spouse
suspense
t
tense	terse	tortoise	traverse
v
verse
w
warehouse	worse

the 'ure'

**-ure**
agriculture	architecture	armature	assure	azure
c
cure	culture	curvature
d
demure	departure	disfigure	displeasure
e
ensure
f
figure	fissure	fixture	fracture	furniture	future
h
horticulture
i
injure	insure
l
lecture	leisure	ligature	literature
m
manufacture	manure	mature	moisture
n
nature	nurture	premature
o
obscure
p
pasture	picture	pleasure	pressure	procure	puncture
r
rapture	rupture
s
scripture	secure	sure	signature	stature	structure
t
temperature	texture	torture	treasure
v
venture

'ore' and 'are' sounds

-ore

**-ore words**
adore	ashore	encore	explore	foreshore	galore
gore	ignore	implore	ore	pore	restore
score	sore	store	sycamore	therefore	wherefore

-are

**-are words**
aware
b
bare	beware
c
care
d
dare	declare
e
earthenware
f
fare
d
glare
h
hardware	hare
m
mare
p
pare	ploughshare	prepare
r
rare
s
scare	share	snare	spare	square
stare
t
thoroughfare	threadbare
u
unaware
w
warfare	welfare

'ue' sound and the 'ine' as short sounds

-ue and words where 'i' is treated differently.

A word cannot end a word with ‘u’

There are three groups of words in this list:

1. words connected to 'q'

2. words related to the 'g' sound.

3. Words related to the long vowel sound.

4. Words using the letter 'q' which is usually followed by the letter 'u'.

argue	blue	brusque	catalogue	clue	colleague
continue	decalogue	dialogue	due	epilogue	fatigue
fugue	glue	harangue	hue	intrigue	issue
league	meringue	monologue	morgue	oblique	opaque
picturesque	pique	plague	prorogue	pursue	queue
rescue	residue	revenue	rogue	statue	subdue
sue	synagogue	technique	tissue	tongue	true
unique	vague	value	venue	virtue	vogue
	overdue		pedagogue	prologue

'i 'as 'ee' 'i' as 'i'

famine	gelatine	genuine	granite	imagine
imbecile	machine	magazine	marine	medicine
nectarine	opposite	quarantine	quinine	ravine
routine	sanguine	sardine	submarine	tambourine
tangerine	guillotine	grenadine	margarine

Words related to the 'g'

When an 'e, follows a 'g' it changes the sound to a 'j' sound. To avoid this, we insert an'u' before the 'e'

**Words related to the 'g'**
ague	argue	catalogue	colleague	decalogue
dialogue	epilogue	harangue	intrigue	league
meringue	monologue	plague	rogue	synagogue
tongue	vague	fatigue

Words using the letter 'q' which is usually followed by the letter 'u'.

**Words using the letter 'q' which is usually followed by the letter 'u'.**
brusque	oblique	opaque	picturesque	pique	queue
technique	unique

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