Basic Vowel & Consonants Blends

1. BL (blow) - blue, black, blanket, bliss

2. BR (break) - brown, brick, brother, breakfast

3. CH (chop) - chair, cheese, chocolate, and chord (pronounced "kord")

4. CL (clap) - clean, cloud, clue, climb

5. CR (crow) - cry, crop, cross, crown

6. DR (drive) - dream, draw, dress, dry

7. FL (fly) - flower, floor, flute, flyover

8. FR (friend) - free, fresh, frost, from

9. GL (glow) - glad, glass, global, glitter

10. GR (grow) - green, great, grip, ground

11. PL (play) - please, plant, plus, plum

12. PR (prince) - proud, present, price, print

13. SC (school) - scare, score, science, scuba

14. SCR (scrub) - scrape, scream, scrub, scroll

15. SHR (shrimp) - shrink, shred, shrug, shrimp

16. SK (skip) - sky, skill, skate, skin

17. SL (slide) - sleep, slow, slide, slim

18. SM (small) - smart, smell, smile, smooth

19. SN (snack) - snake, snap, snow, snuggle

20. SP (spin) - space, speak, spin, spoon

21. SPl (splash) - splash, split, splurge, spleen

22. SPR (spray) - spray, spread, spring, sprout

23. SQU (squirrel) - squeeze, squirrel, squint, squat

24. ST (star) - start, stop, still, study

25. STr (strong) - street, strong, stripe, stretch

26. SW (swing) - swim, sweet, swing, switch

27. THr (throw) - throw, three, throat, through

28. TR (trip) - train, try, trip, tree

29. TW (twin) - twist, twelve, twin, tweet

30. AI (bait) - pain, train, rain, aim

31. AU (haul) - cause, pause, sauce, launch

32. AY (day) - play, say, stay, way

33. EA (bean) - bread, clean, dream, heart

34. EE (meet) - bee, feet, keep, tree

35. EI (rein) - eight, receive, neighbor, veil

36. EO (leonine) - people, leopard, feoffee

37. EU (eulogy) - euphoria, eucalyptus

38. EW (chew) - dew, few, new, stew

39. EY (key) - they, hey, grey, prey

40. IE (pie) - die, lie, tie, pie

41. OI (boil) - coin, join, noise, boil

42. OO (moon) - boot, cool, pool, soon

43. OU (out) - doubt, shout, scout, about

44. OW (cow) - bow, low, now, owl

45. OY (joy) - boy, toy, enjoy, royal

46. UE (blue) - blue, clue, glue, true

47. UI (juice) - fruit, juice, build, suit

48. CK (back) - back, black, check, pick

49. DG (edge) - edge, badge, dodge, fudge

50. KN (knight) - knight, know, knock, knee

51. MB (comb) - climb, comb, lamb, thumb

52. NG (ring) - bring, long, sing, thing

53. PH (phone) - elephant, PHASE, PHOTO, PHANTOM

54. QU (QUEEN) - QUICK, quiz, quit, quiet

55. SC (scent) - science, scene, scythe, descend

56. SK (skill) - ask, desk, husk, risk

57. WR (wrist) - write, wrong, wrap, wreck

58. TCH (catch) - batch, itch, notch, witch

Blends that have multiple pronunciations
1. SC:

• pronounced as "sk":

Scuba

Scrape

• pronounced as "s":

Scissors

Science

Scene

Scenic

2. SE:

• pronounced as "s":

Seven

Sesame

Separate

• pronounced as "z":

Present

3. TH:

• pronounced as "th":

Think

This

Thought

• pronounced as "dh":

Clothe

Breathe

Bathe
4. CH:

• pronounced as "ch":

Chalk

Church

Chicken

• pronounced as "k":

School

Echo

Chaos

5. GH:

• pronounced as "f":

Enough

Laugh

Cough

• pronounced as "g":

Ghost

Ghetto

Ghoul

 Pronounced as "h":

Ghost

Ghastly

Gherkin

6. OU:

• pronounced as "ow":

Out

Shout

House

• pronounced as "oh":

Shoulder
 Mould

Boulders

• pronounced as "oo":

Group

Soup

You

7. EA:

• pronounced as "eh":

Head

Bread

Dead

• pronounced as "ee":

Bean

Dream

Steam

• pronounced as "a":

Heart

Hear

Year

8. OO:

• pronounced as "oo":

Food

Good

Mood

• pronounced as "u":

Foot

Put

Should
9. EI:

• pronounced as "ay":

Eight

Reign

Weight

• pronounced as "ey":

Eighty

Veil

Neighbour

Pronounced as "ee":

Seize

Seizure

• Sleight

10. IE:

• pronounced as "ai":

Die

Lie

Tie

• pronounced as "ee":

Believe

Relief

Chief

11. KN:

• "n": know, knot, knife, knee, knuckle, knight, knowledge, knoll, knickknack, knit

• "nuh": unknown, acknowledge, knocking, knapsack, knavery, knead, kneel, knob, knout,

Knurl
12. 50. UI:

• "U": Cuisine, Biscuit, Circuit

“I”: Guide, Guise, Guider

“E”: Guilty, Guitar

13. PH:

• "f": phone, photograph, phonics, phoneme, philosophy, phantom, phenomenon, phase,

philanthropy, pharmacy

• "p-h": elephant, emphasis, orphan, pamphlet, sphere, graphic, phantom, triumph,

orphanage, sapphire

14. GH:

• Silent: night, right, high, weigh, sigh, flight, might, eight, though, daughter

15. ED:

• "t": talked, walked, stopped, asked, watched, liked, helped, hoped, baked, and asked

• "d": played, ended, needed, landed, sounded, faded, crowded, founded, decided, and

Guided

• "id": heated, wanted, lasted, landed, added, needed.

16. OUGH:

• "aw": fought, bought and brought

• "oh": although, dough, although, though, although, bough, although, hiccough, slough,

Plough

• "oo": through, ,

• "off": cough, trough, troughs

• "uff": tough, enough, rough, slough

17. EU:

• "yoo": Europe, eulogy, euphoria, eucalyptus, euphemism, Eustace, eucalypt, eukaryote,

Eudora, Eubanks

• "yuh": heuristic, neuron, leukocyte, neutral, euphonic, heuristic

18. CH:

• "k": ache, anchor, chaos, stomach, character, echo, mechanic, chemistry, chasm,

chemist

• "ch": cheese, cheap, cherish, chop, church, lunch, watch, change, catch, speech

• "sh": chef, champagne, parachute, chandelier, brochure, machine, crochet,

ricocheted, machete

19. AU:

• "aw": August, author, autumn, Australia, applaud, auction, audience, awesome,

awkward, awful

• "ah": audience, authentic, sauna, sausage, saucepan, astronaut, launch, fraud,

daughter, caught

• "uh": cause, pause, because, clause, applause, chauffeur, gauge, taunt, fraught, haul

20. OU:

• "ow": house, town, power, down, now, flower, cow, howl, shower, crown

• "oo": soul, shoulder, mould, could, should

21. GU: can be pronounced as "g" or "gw"

• "g" sound: guide, guitar, guess, guest, guinea

• "gw" sound: guava, language, anguish, linguist, catalogue

22. ST: can be pronounced as "st" or "s" or "z"

• "st" sound: fast, past, taste, coast, listen, sound: grist, twist, moist, wrist, nestle

• "s" sound: castle, whistle, gristle, thistle, rustle

23. MB: can be pronounced as "m" or "muh"

• "m" sound: comb, bomb, climb, lamb, tomb

• "muh" sound: plumber, thumb, numb, crumb, dumb

24. SC: can be pronounced as "s" or "sk"

• "s" sound: science, scene, descent, fascinate, discipline

• "sk" sound: scale, scuba, scab, scarf, scorch

25. PN: can be pronounced as "n" or "p-n"

• "n" sound: pneumonia, pneumatic, pneuma, pneuron

• "p-n" sound: pneumatology, pneumatophore, pneumatics

26. WR: can be pronounced as "r" or "w-r"

• "r" sound: wrap, wreck, wrong, wrist, wren

• "w-r" sound: write, wreath, written, wry, wrestle

27. PH: can be pronounced as "f" or "p-h"

• "f" sound: phone, alphabet, graph, dolphin, sphere

• "p-h" sound: phrase, ephemeral, physics, pharmacy, phase

28. TI: can be pronounced as "sh" or "tee" or "ch"

• "sh" sound: nation, motion, fraction, patient, mention, question, position, station,

Hesitation, action, function, injection, addiction, section

• "tee" sound: competition

29. SI: can be pronounced as "s" or "sh"

• "s" sound: vision, decision, television, collision, explosion

• "sh" sound: session, cushion, version, persuasion, fission

30. CI: can be pronounced as "s" or "sh"

• "s" sound: circle, circus, civic, acidic, cynical

• "sh" sound: special, social, official, artificial

31. GN:

• "n": sign, design, align, benign, campaign, signal, assign, foreign, malign, sovereign

32. PS:

• "s": psychology, lapse, catastrophe, ellipse, synopsis, apocalypse, epitome, emphasis,

psyche, clasp

• "p-s": pseudonym, psyche, pseudopod, pseudo, psalm, pseudoscience, psoriasis,

psalter, psittacosis, pschent

33. IE:

• "eye": Pie, Lie, Die, Tie, Lieu, Hie, Stie, Diehard, Tier, Lien

• "ee": Field, Yield, Shield, Yielding, Yielded, Fieldwork, Yielder, Yieldless, Yieldable,

Fielding

34. ES:

• "s": glasses, passes, flosses, gases, kisses, courses, curses, houses, buses, praises

• "z": horses, noses, causes, roses, buzzes, loses, quizzes, freezes, analyses, adjectives

35. OUL:

• "owl": soul, foul

• "uhl": should, would, could

36. AUGH:

• "aw": caught, taught, daughter, slaughter, naught, fought, fraught,

aught
37. EAR:

• “Ear” sound – ear, tear, gear, spear

• "ar": heart, hearth, earth, search, learn, earn, yearn, pearl, early, car

 “YR” – Pear, Bear, tear

 Short A sound – “ earth, pearl , early, earthquake.”
 “R” sound – Heart

38. EIGH:

• "ay": eight, weight, freight, sleigh,

• “I” – Height

39. OAR:

• "or": boar, soar, roar, oar, hoarse, coarse

• "oh": board, hoard, ward, toward

40. OUR:

• "ow": flour, sour, hour, devour, scour,

• "or": tour, contour, four, pour, amour, detour, honour, velour, troubadour, paramour

41. OY:

• "oy": Boy, Joy, Annoy, Coy, Employ, Royalty, Soybean, Royalty, Ploy, Alloy

• "oi": Oil, Boil, Coil, Spoil, Toil, Soil, Foil, Recoil, Moisten, Join

42. AY:

• "ay": Day, May, Pay, Say, Lay, Play, Bay, Hay, Clay, Pray

• short “A”sound: Says

43. EU:

• "yoo": Europe, Eucalyptus, Euphoria, Eulogy, Eunuch, Euphemism, Euro, Eureka, Eucrite,

Eudiometer

• "yuh": Neuron, Neurotic, Neutral, Neuter, Neuritis, Neuroma, Neurasthenia, Neuronic,

Neuston, Neurospora

44. AI:

• "ay": Aisle, Aired, Aim, Ailment, Aitch, Ail, Aide, Airfare, Airfield, Ailurophobia

• "eye": Detail, Aide, Raise, Waiter, Daily, Abstain, Bail, Mail, Fail, Grail