Well, if you are talking about syllables, it is swim*ing, so it has two sounds.
swim-ming has two syllables.
There are two syllables. Pad-dling.
Yes.
Two sounds
44 sounds
The word "stake" has four sounds: /s/ - /t/ - /ā/ - /k/.
2
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.
1
2
Three
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