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a
ɑː	car, far, arm, father, park, star, drama, wasp, swap, bra, spa, grandpa
æ	man, sad, cap, ankle, ant, answer, anxiety, stamp, dance, band, mass
ɛ	many, any, library, arrow, canary, fare, care, bare, share, scare, carrot
ʌ	was
ə	about, away, alert, comma, banana, America, cinema, woman, sugar
ɪ	garbage, orange, bandage, dosage, hostage, manage, spinach, average
ɔː	all, always, bald, ball, call, small, halt, salt, water, war, warm, warn
eɪ	cake, face, same, rate, danger, angel, ache, escape, baby, cable, situation

ae
ɛ	aerobics
ə	Michael
aɪ	maestro
eɪ	sundae

ai
æ	plaid, daiquiri
ɛ	said, again, fair, air, hair, chair, pair, repair, stair, lair
ə	mountain, certain, curtain, captain, bargain, fountain, villain
aɪ	Thailand, Taiwan, Azerbaijan
eɪ	paid, wait, chaise, rain, gain, maid, brain, faint, Spain, ain't

aigh
eɪ	straight

al
ɑː	calm, palm, balm, psalm
æ	half, behalf, calf, salmon
ɔː	talk, walk, chalk, stalk

au
æ	laugh, aunt
ʌ	because
ɔː	caution, haunt, August, audacious, audio, laundry, sauce, author
eɪ	gauge

augh
ɔː	caught, taught, daughter

aw
ɔː	saw, law, paw, raw, jaw, dawn, draw, awful, yawn, flaw, hawk, claw

ay
ɛ	says
eɪ	say, pay, may, day, ray, way, lay, stay, pray, spray, play, astray

e
ɑː	sergeant, ensemble, entrepreneur
ɛ	men, get, set, where, bed, egg, best, debt, self, ever, very, dress, lemon
ɜː	nerd, were, verb, alert, version, clerk, assert, allergic, dessert
ə	bullet, cancel, seven, even, current, problem, system, paper, under
ɪ	begin, here, mere, pretty, English, sphere, severe, interfere
iː	be, fever, scene, ego, even, evil, equal, genius, hero, legal
i	chile, recipe, idea, react, video, hideous
eɪ	cafe

ea
ɑː	heart, hearth
ɛ	head, health, breakfast, wear, bear, dead, threat, wealth, sweat, treasure
ɜː	heard, early, hearse, earn, learn, yearn, search, pearl, Earth
ə	ocean
ɪ	ear, year, hear, clear, fear, dear, near, gear, rear, beard, appear
iː	heat, speak, each, meat, feat, freak, creature, clean, mean, leaf, teach
ɔː	Sean
eɪ	break, great, steak

ee
ɪ	been, career, beer, deer, peer, engineer, volunteer
iː	need, meet, feet, bee, see, seem, sleep, three, tree, free, knee, seek

ei
ɛ	their, heir
ɪ	weird, counterfeit
iː	receive, receipt, either, neither, deceive, ceiling, leisure, caffeine
aɪ	heist, seismic
eɪ	beige, vein, surveillance, heinous

eig
ə	foreign, sovereign
eɪ	feign, reign

eigh
aɪ	height, sleight
eɪ	eight, weight, weigh, neighbor, freight, sleigh

eo
ɛ	leopard, jeopardize
ə	dungeon, surgeon
iː	people

et
eɪ	ballet, ricochet, gourmet, bouquet

eu
ə	amateur
uː	neutral, pseudonym, sleuth
jʊ	Europe, euro

ew
uː	new, flew, threw, chew, crew, blew, brew, grew, cashew, drew
oʊ	sew
juː	few, nephew

ey
iː	key
i	money, honey, monkey, valley, turkey, chimney, alley, donkey, journey
aɪ	geyser
eɪ	they, hey, obey, convey, survey, prey

i
ɑː	lingerie
ɜː	bird, birth, girl, first, firm, sir, virgin, circle, twirl, third, thirsty
ə	evil, fragile, cicada, sanity, artisan
ɪ	it, kid, sing, rabbit, driven, win, tip, still, list, kiss, with, fish
iː	police, magazine, machine, ski, visa, chic, pizza, liter, kiwi
i	radio, period, furious, champion
aɪ	like, kind, drive, fine, site, dime, wine, climb, wild, mind, icon, pilot

ia
ə	special, essential, Asia, Russia, fuchsia, parliament, partial
ɪ	marriage, carriage
aɪ	diaper

ie
ɛ	friend
ə	patient, ancient, conscience, efficient, soldier
ɪ	pier, fierce, sieve, chandelier
iː	believe, niece, piece, shield, relief, achieve, thief, chief, grieve
aɪ	lie, die, pie, tie

igh
aɪ	fight, night, right, might, bright, light, sight, high, sigh, thigh

io
ə	action, fusion, decision, mission, question
iə	period, champion
jə	union, savior, million

iou
ə	precious, delicious
iə	previous, furious, serious

o
ɑː	on, not, hot, bother, shop, bomb, sock, lock, pop, con, box, clock, doctor
ʌ	love, done, none, some, brother, tongue, oven, color, front, cover, money
ɜː	work, word, world, worse, worth, worm, worship, attorney
ə	occur, mirror, lion, actor, project, official, observe, correct, police
ɪ	women
ɔː	more, wrong, gone, long, song, horse, store, loss, moth, born, forty
ʊ	woman, wolf
uː	do, to, who, whose, move, lose, tomb, womb
oʊ	no, so, over, open, home, close, rose, code, mode, hope, alone, tone, comb
wʌ	one, once

oa
ɔː	board, broad, abroad, roar, hoard, oar, boar, soar, hoarse
oʊ	road, coach, coast, boat, goat, goal, load, loan, toad, float, throat

oe
ʌ	does
iː	amoeba, phoenix, subpoena
uː	shoe, canoe
oʊ	toe, foe, hoe, Joe

oi
ə	tortoise
ɔɪ	coin, join, avoid, voice, choice, rejoice, oil, poison, point, noise

ol
oʊ	folk, yolk

oo
ʌ	blood, flood
ɔː	door, floor, backdoor, indoor, outdoor
ʊ	book, cook, look, took, hook, hood, foot, good, stood, wood, wool, crook
uː	boot, food, moon, spoon, room, tool, cool, school, tooth, choose, goose

ou
ʌ	country, enough, trouble, young, tough, rough, southern, couple, cousin
ɜː	journal, journey, courage, courtesy
ə	famous, virtuous, obvious, serious, dangerous
ɔː	four, course, source, court, mourn, pour, your, trough
ʊ	tour, tournament, courier
uː	group, soup, coup, you, youth, wound
aʊ	out, about, mouth, house, cloud, loud, sound, couch, proud, south
oʊ	soul, shoulder

ough
ɔː	thought, fought, bought, brought, ought
uː	through
aʊ	bough, drought
oʊ	though, although, dough, doughnut, thorough

oul
ʊ	could, should, would

ow
ɑː	knowledge, acknowledge
aʊ	bow, cow, now, how, vow, allow, down, clown, brown, town, frown, flower
oʊ	bow, know, show, snow, low, own, row, sow, mow, tow, throw, flow, swallow

oy
aɪ	coyote
ɔɪ	boy, toy, joy, enjoy, loyal, oyster, annoy, deploy, destroy, employ, decoy

u
ɛ	bury
ʌ	bus, much, just, cut, culture, sung, dumb, summer, tunnel, luck, number
ɜː	hurt, burn, turn, curl, nurse, lurk, urban, blur, purr, turtle, Thursday
ə	support, supply, success, pressure, awful, useful, mindful, lettuce
ɪ	busy, business
ʊ	put, push, pull, full, bull, bullet, sure, sugar, cushion, during
uː	flu, truth, dude, duty, nude, cruel, super, June, flute, rule, stupid
u	actual, valuable, fruition, influence, July
jə	ambulance, figure, vocabulary, stimulant, secular, tubular
jʊ	secure, cure, obscure, mature, curious, pure, fury
juː	use, unite, university, union, cute, music, human, perfume, refuse
w	quick, equip, squirrel, squad, sequence, quote, suite, language

ua
ɑː	guard
ɛ	guarantee

ue
ɛ	guess
uː	blue, true, due, sue, clue, glue, issue, tissue, statue, gruesome
juː	cue, argue, value, rescue, continue, barbecue, venue

ui
ə	biscuit
ɪ	build, guilt
iː	mosquito
uː	fruit, juice, suit, cruise, recruit, bruise
aɪ	guide

uy
aɪ	buy, guy

b
◌	doubt, bomb, climb, comb, dumb, thumb, tomb, crumb, lamb, limb, numb
b	ball, boy, boss, band, bet, subject, obtain, club, rub, job, tab, tube, web

c
◌	muscle, indict
k	cat, car, call, scream, music, static, garlic, basic, comic, fact, color
s	city, pencil, circle, cicada, cycle, decide, police, face, ice, force, voice
ʃ	ocean, special, ancient, precious, delicious, politician

cc
k	account, soccer, occasion, occur, accuracy, broccoli
ks	success, accent, vaccine, eccentric

ch
k	chemistry, stomach, echo, ache, scheme, archaic, archive, school, architect
ʃ	chef, champagne, Chicago, machine, ricochet, mustache, parachute
tʃ	choose, cheap, chair, church, champion, coach, much, such, search, which

d
◌	handsome, handkerchief, sandwich, Wednesday
d	day, duck, death, loved, begged, robbed, raised, merged, called
dʒ	educate, gradual, schedule, module, procedure, soldier
t	dressed, worked, wished, laughed, fixed, hoped, watched, liked, coughed

f
f	fast, four, face, from, frog, foot, forget, soft, self, wolf, golf, beef
v	of

g
◌	gnostic, gnome, gnaw, gnu, sign, design, campaign, align, feign
dʒ	gym, gist, gentle, ginger, gin, religion, stranger, large, cage, margarine
ɡ	get, go, target, tiger, anger, big, beg, gift, finger, regular
ʒ	genre, massage, beige, mirage, sabotage, regime, prestige, arbitrage, camouflage

gh
◌	though, although, dough, doughnut, thorough, borough, bough, sigh
f	laugh, enough, cough, tough, rough, trough
ɡ	ghost, ghetto, ghoul, Ghana

h
◌	hour, honest, honor, heir, exhibit, vehicle, prohibition
h	hat, hero, helicopter, hit, house, horrible, hilarious, ahead, inherit

j
◌	marijuana
dʒ	just, job, joke, jump, jam, jaw, jacket, justice, joy, subject, major

k
◌	know, knife, knee, knock, knot, knit, knight, knead
k	kind, king, keep, kiss, kid, key, cake, like, take, dark, work, bank

l
◌	half, calm, talk, walk, chalk, stalk
l	let, lap, left, lip, old, twelve, cold, goal, false, feel, table

m
◌	mnemonic
m	mad, miss, more, comfortable, them, system, home, game

n
◌	column, damn, condemn, solemn, autumn, hymn
n	not, never, nice, night, nun, notion, only, then, pain, phone, green
ŋ	anxiety, uncle, pink, bank, ankle, thanks, think, truncate

ng
ŋ	long, longing, sing, song, ring, singer, king, saying
ndʒ	ginger, stranger, danger, challenge, angel
ŋɡ	finger, longer, longest, hunger, anger, stronger, single

p
◌	raspberry, pneumonia, psychology, cupboard, psalm, receipt
p	pen, pet, put, push, pull, plan, popular, upgrade, impact, cap, syrup

ph
f	photograph, graph, nephew, telephone, sphere, physics, emphasis, prophet

q
k	queue, query, quick, squirrel, squad, square, sequence

r
◌	February
r	red, rear, right, rat, rope, rare, rural, roof, dress, person, car, care

s
◌	island, isle, Arkansas, Illinois
s	set, sad, sleep, stay, disappear, disorder, dishonest, bus, sense
ʃ	sugar, sure, insurance, tension, mansion, dimension, controversial
z	please, easy, nose, disaster, wise, desert, reason, poison, clumsy, beds
ʒ	usual, pleasure, measure, treasure, leisure, television, occasion, Asia

sc
s	science, scene, ascend, descend, susceptible, discipline, reminisce
ʃ	conscious, conscience

sh
ʃ	shell, ship, shop, show, ashamed, fashion, fish, wish, cash, fresh, wash

ss
s	class, glasses, missile, assembly, miss, bless, progress, actress, address
ʃ	issue, profession, pressure, expression, mission, depression, Russia
z	possess, dessert, scissors, dissolve, Missouri
ʒ	rescission

t
◌	castle, listen, whistle, often, fasten, mortgage
ʃ	nation, attention, mention, inertia, essential, spatial, initial
t	ten, tell, time, tight, toward, into, empty, sit, set, fact, wait, route
tʃ	future, picture, nature, situation, virtue, statue, question, suggestion
ʒ	equation

tch
tʃ	kitchen, catch, match, watch, stretch, switch, snitch, bitch, sketch

th
◌	asthma
ð	this, that, then, though, although, either, rhythm, breathe, bathe, loathe
t	apartheid, Thailand, Thomas, discotheque
θ	thing, thank, three, thigh, thief, author, Earth, math, both, mouth, north

v
v	video, van, vase, vacation, over, ever, service, cave, wave

w
◌	write, wrong, who, whose, whole, answer, sword, two
w	word, wish, want, sweet, twice, twenty, twist, reward

wh
w	what, where, when, why, which, while, white, wheel, whale

x
ɡz	exact, example, exist, exam, exhaust, exotic, exhibit, exaggerate
ɡʒ	luxurious
k	excellent, exceed, except, excess, excite
ks	excuse, exercise, extra, exchange, six, box, relax, complex, paradox
kʃ	anxious, complexion, sexual, obnoxious
z	anxiety, xenophobia, xylophone

y
ə	labyrinth, martyr
ɪ	gym, system, symbolic, bicycle, mystery, myth, physics, hymn, hypnosis
i	very, many, happy, funny, bury, sunny, windy, icy, navy, duty
aɪ	my, by, sky, why, fly, cry, shy, spy, style, deny, apply, hyphen, July
j	you, yes, year, yellow, yesterday, yield

ye
aɪ	bye, dye, rye

z
z	zero, zebra, zoo, zipper, zodiac, zombie, zone, size, breeze, freeze, seize
ʒ	seizure, azure