Final consonant clusters

Final consonant clusters

[ft], [kt]

drift – gift – lift – sift – left – draft – shaft – loft – soft;

act – fact – tact – elect – affect – depict – deduct;

[lt], [ld]

belt – dealt – felt – melt – built – guilt – kilt – tilt – halt – malt – fault – default – vault – bolt – colt – jolt;

old – bold – cold – fold – gold – hold – mold – scold – sold – told – child – mild – wild – field – build – held – bald – world;

[lk], [lp], [lb]

milk – silk – elk – bulk – hulk – sulk;

help – yelp – palp – pulp – bulb;

[lf], [lv]

self – elf – shelf – golf – gulf – wolf – Ralph – Rolph – Rudolph;

solve – involve – valve – delve;

[lch], [lj], [lm], [ls]

belch – bilge – bulge – divulge;

film – helm – realm – else – pulse;

[mp], [mf]

limp – temp – camp – lamp – ramp – stamp – stomp – bump – dump – jump – plump – rump – stump;

lymph – nymph – triumph;

[nt], [nd]

mint – lint – sent – spent – bent – tent – vent – moment – agreement – statement – pant – can't – haunt – want – hunt – paint – saint – pint – point – joint;

wind – send – spend – lend – friend – attend – band – land – hand – sand – bond – fond – pond – fund – find – kind – bind – mind – behind – rind – wind – found – round – sound – pound;

[nch], [nj]

finch – pinch – bench – French – branch – ranch – launch – crunch – hunch – lunch;

change – range – strange – binge – cringe – fringe – tinge – sponge – lunge – lounge;

[ns], [nz]

rinse – since – mince – wince – dense – fence – sense – absence – license – science – chance – dance – fragrance – ounce;

cleanse [klenz] – lens [lenz];

[ŋk]

pink [piŋk] – ink – drink – think – link – mink – sink – shrink – wink – bank – banker – sank – rank – frank – spank – tank – honk – monk – monkey – drunk – junk – punk – skunk – distinct – jinx – wrinkle – uncle – ankle – anchor – anxious – banquet ['bæŋkwit];

[ŋg]

finger ['fiŋgər] – linger – hunger – hungry – anger – angry – longer – longest – stronger – strongest – younger – youngest – congress (n.) – mongrel – single – angle – strangle – tangle – language – lingo – linguist – distinguish;

Note: The sound combination [ŋg] does not occur at the end of English words. It is given here for comparison with [ŋk], which can be at the end and in the middle of words. (Звуковое сочетание [ŋg] не встречается в конце английских слов. Оно дано здесь для сравнения с [ŋk], которое может быть в конце и в середине слов.)

[ps], [pt]

perhaps – lapse – collapse – ellipse – glimpse – oops;

apt – rapt – leapt – crept – kept – accept – crypt – script – adopt – erupt – attempt – tempt;

[sk], [sp], [st]

risk – flask – mask – task – desk – mosque – dusk – husk;

lisp – crisp – wisp – clasp – grasp – wasp;

least – feast – beast – mist – wrist – best – chest – test – fast – last – past – cost – lost – first – thirst – burst – dust – must – rust – paste – taste – waste – boast – coast – roast – most – post;

Clusters with final [θ]

month – health – wealth – stealth – filth – warmth – strength – length – width – breadth – depth;

seventh – ninth – tenth – fifteenth – sixteenth – thirteenth – sixth – fifth – twelfth – eighth [eitθ] – hundredth – thousandth.

Note: length [leŋθ] or [leŋkθ]; strength [streŋθ] or [streŋkθ].