User:Grover cleveland/DRESS lexical set

The DRESS lexical set is one of the twenty-four lexical sets defined by John C. Wells in Accents of English that are in wide usage among phonologists and phoneticians.

Pronunciation in reference accents
Words of the DRESS lexical set are pronounced with the stressed vowel in RP and the stressed vowel  in General American.

Spelling
The following are the typical spellings of words in the KIT lexical set:

The following spellings are frequent in DRESS words, but more commonly spell words in other lexical sets:

Untypical spellings:

Distribution
The DRESS lexical set contains a so-called checked vowel: in other words, the stressed vowel must always be followed immediately by a consonant (other than nonprevocalic /r/).