Words with the [s] sound
Voiceless alveolar fricative; hiss with the tongue near the ridge.
Common spellings: s, c. Examples: see, city.
- simcoe
- skye
- slalom
- smilingly
- smoothing
- snares
- sola
- soybeans
- speaker's
- springtime
- standoff
- steeds
- stonehenge
- story's
- styx
- succumb
- suffices
- superheroes
- supple
- supplementary
- surfboard
- surveyors
- susannah
- sutter
- swami
- swann
- sweeper
- theses
- tigris
- tuscan
- unanswered
- unforeseen
- utterances
- vitreous
- accessing
- accountants
- acquiescence
- adidas
- adolescents
- amidships
- anthropologists
- arcs
- assassinate
- augustin
- austerity
- autistic
- beatrix
- bicyclists
- blockbuster
- booklets
- botanists
- capacitor
- capricious
- caskey
- celibacy
- chief's
- condolences
- counsellors
- craftsmanship
- crates
- culminates
- democracies
- despotism
- discordant
- dissemination
- dissuade
- docs
- domestics
- doss
- ducts
- embarrass
- encyclopaedia
- ensue
- escorting
- esplanade
- espoused
- estes
- excise
- exigencies
- fancier
- fastening
- fireside
- forceful
- freaks
- glamorous
- grasshopper
- gros
- gusts
- hallucination
- handicrafts
- hasidic
- hawkes
- heterosexual
- hispaniola
- housekeeping
- imbalance
- indecision
- innermost
- innocently
- inspirations