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Consonants
Notes:


 * In the tables, the hyphen has two different meanings. A hyphen after the letter indicates that it must be at the beginning of a syllable, e.g. j- in jumper and ajar. A hyphen before the letter indicates that it cannot be at the beginning of a word, e.g. -ck in sick and ticket.
 * More specific rules take precedence over more general ones, e.g. "c- before e, i or y" takes precedence over "c".
 * Where the letter combination is described as "word-final", inflectional suffixes may be added without changing the pronunciation, e.g. catalogues.
 * The dialect used is RP.
 * Isolated foreign borrowings are excluded.

Combinations of other consonant and vowel letters
Small text indicates rare words. Loans words: SP for Spanish, FR for French.

Sound to spelling correspondences
The following table shows for each sound, the various spelling patterns used to denote it. The symbol "…" stands for an intervening consonant. The letter sequences are in order of frequency with the most common first. Some of these patterns are very rare or unique, such as au for the sound in laugh (some accents). In some cases, the spellings shown are found in only one known English word (such as "mh" for, or "yrrh" for ).