Words with the [s] sound
Voiceless alveolar fricative; hiss with the tongue near the ridge.
Common spellings: s, c. Examples: see, city.
- sparrow
- spice
- stony
- stray
- strive
- stronghold
- sucker
- suicidal
- sweetheart
- willis
- blasted
- calculus
- conducts
- consultation
- czechoslovakia
- dismay
- excelled
- expressive
- festivities
- inclusive
- intensely
- mattress
- mausoleum
- mince
- ministries
- presley
- reconciled
- rustling
- salon
- sawyer
- someone's
- spatial
- stoke
- syrian
- taxis
- zest
- ambiguous
- brilliance
- crooks
- displacement
- distributions
- facilitated
- genetics
- helsinki
- insurgents
- knots
- lotus
- outrageous
- park's
- pasture
- pursuits
- reminiscent
- screwdriver
- skies
- spends
- squeeze
- staggered
- strata
- stung
- subdivisions
- sulphur
- supervisor
- sweeter
- toasted
- unanimously
- augustine
- backslashes
- brisk
- climates
- effortlessly
- emphasizes
- exposition
- extravagant
- fabulous
- induce
- infamous
- johnson's
- meaningless
- myths
- sadness
- scorpions
- seneca
- slab
- snowed
- spurs
- subdued
- surveyor
- swimmers
- theresa
- wakes
- amnesty
- assortment
- christchurch
- cipher
- consort
- constituencies
- disrupted
- glossy
- huts
- impatience