The word "begged" has five sounds.
There are five sounds in the word "indexation".
There are three sounds in the word "laugh" (/l/ /a/ /f/).
The word "stake" has four sounds: /s/ - /t/ - /ā/ - /k/.
The word "knew" has 3 sounds: /n/ - /uː/ - /w/.
The word "quick" has 4 sounds: /k/ - /w/ - /ɪ/ - /k/
2
There is 1 syllable.
I begged for a cell phone.
Begged
Begged.
emplored
44 sounds
Two sounds
The word "stake" has four sounds: /s/ - /t/ - /ā/ - /k/.
seven sounds
The word "an" contains 1 sound, which is the sound of the short vowel "a."
We only have 26 letters, but there are 44 speech sounds.