The letters "ou" make the "f" sound in the word "rough."
The short U sound is seen in these spellings: U - tub, mud, stuff, hum, nut, and ugly OU - rough, tough OO - blood, flood O (followed by F or V) - of, love, shove A - was, what
In the word "bought," the letters "g" and "h" are silent. The "gh" together makes the "f" sound.
The word "rough" has 5 sounds: /r/ /ʌ/ /f/. /r/ /ə/ /f/.
There are 4 phonemes in the word "rough": /r/, /ʌ/, /f/, /θ/.
The word "thief" can be made from the letters L, F, T, Y, H, and I.
These are letters that make different letter sounds in other words.GH - has the F sound in rough and toughO = has the I sound as in womenTI = has the SH sound as in action and emotionAll together they make the word sound FISH.
Just f makes the ffff sound, the other letters make up the first part of the word.
The short U sound is seen in these spellings: U - tub, mud, stuff, hum, nut, and ugly OU - rough, tough OO - blood, flood O (followed by F or V) - of, love, shove A - was, what
Some words ending with the letters "gh" pronounced as "f" are: rough, tough, enough, cough, laugh.
The letters GH are pronounced as F in such words as:coughchough (a crow-like bird, pronounced chuff)enoughlaugh, laughterroughsloughtoughtrough
The letters "ph" usually sound like "f." For example, the word "laugh" sounds like /laf/; the word "rough" sounds like /ruf/. Sometimes the letters are written together but belong to two different syllables, in which case they sound like "p" and "h." Example: haphazard
phphone, physics, phantomghlaugh, cough, rough
Enough,
Rough. Cough. Trough. enough
In the word "bought," the letters "g" and "h" are silent. The "gh" together makes the "f" sound.
A five letter word that begins with F that's the sound of pain is groan.
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