The word "phone" contains four graphemes. These are represented by the letters 'p', 'h', 'o', and 'ne' (with 'ne' representing a single grapheme for the /n/ sound and the vowel /e/ sound). In total, there are five letters, but the combination of 'ne' functions as a single grapheme in this context.
The word "though" has five graphemes: th / o / u / g / h.
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The word 'Plates' has 5 phonemes (/p/, /l/, /ey/, /t/, /s/) and 5 graphemes (p, l, a, t, e).
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The word "straight" contains seven graphemes: 's', 't', 'r', 'a', 'i', 'g', and 'h', with the 't' at the end representing the phoneme /t/. Each letter corresponds to a distinct sound or combination of sounds in the word.
The English writing system has 461 graphemes which represent 40 phonemes.
There are five graphemes in the word eight, e, i, g, h and t. However, there are only two or possibly three phonemes depending which parts of the word are regarded as digraphs or trigraphs.