Words with the [ɛ] sound

Open-mid front; relaxed 'eh' with the tongue mid-high.

Common spellings: e, ea. Examples: bed, head, men.

• as
• education
• airport
• ended
• educated
• empty
• economic
• engine
• existence
• employed
• every
• editor
• entered
• elementary
• era
• entering
• enter
• air
• aircraft
• any
• anybody
• anyone
• anything
• area
• areas
• edge
• edward
• efforts
• eggs
• elements
• else
• emperor
• empire
• end
• ends
• enemy
• energy
• engineering
• enjoy
• entrance
• episode
• estate
• ever
• everybody
• everyone
• everything
• evidence
• excellent
• m
• s
• x
• effort
• entertainment
• episodes
• everywhere
• engines
• enemies
• enjoyed
• extra
• engineer
• arabic
• egg
• educational
• f
• embedded
• exercise
• evident
• error
• element
• elder
• edinburgh
• encouraged
• essential
• explanation
• executed
• eldest
• ending
• ethnic
• economics
• anywhere
• anyway
• emerald
• l
• expedition
• entry
• employees
• edited
• elsewhere
• edges
• entitled
• enters
• n
• eric
• arizona
• essentially
• exhibition
• ex
• expert
• extraordinary
• evidently