Words with the [s] sound
Voiceless alveolar fricative; hiss with the tongue near the ridge.
Common spellings: s, c. Examples: see, city.
- commence
- completes
- diaspora
- digest
- dispenser
- elapsed
- elusive
- excludes
- expertly
- frank's
- grossing
- hesse
- humanist
- icing
- jurassic
- listens
- mixer
- onstage
- pixels
- powerless
- precedes
- principality
- prodigious
- puppets
- reacts
- salvador
- salzburg
- sanity
- schoolmaster
- sipped
- skillful
- slaughterhouse
- sown
- sprained
- stimuli
- stings
- strangled
- successively
- summer's
- summon
- theseus
- thurston
- transformers
- trusts
- venomous
- vicksburg
- worsened
- addison
- advantageous
- aspen
- bernstein
- bestow
- betsy
- brightest
- bustling
- carpets
- circle's
- circulating
- colts
- counseling
- desirous
- disabling
- discourage
- disorganized
- dispense
- duke's
- fixture
- fluorescence
- frescoes
- grandsons
- gymnast
- hissed
- nieces
- notoriously
- nuggets
- parallax
- paramedics
- phelps
- plaques
- premise
- prevalence
- psychotic
- reliance
- safest
- sardines
- sax
- screwball
- scurried
- semantics
- setback
- singleton
- smallpox
- snagged
- snuff
- socio
- soloist
- sorority
- specials
- stampeded
- standpoint