Consonants in English

Consonants are the letters other than "a", "e", "i", "o", and "u". For example, "t", "m", and "w" are consonants.

A consonant sound is a type of sound. Most of the time, a consonant sound is created from the letters other than "a", "e", "i", "o", and/or "u".

Listen to the consonant sounds, below.

• [b] sound

• "Best" has the [b] sound:

• [d] sound

• "Door" has the [d] sound:

• [f] sound

• "Fry" has the [d] sound:

• [g] sound

• "Go" has the [g] sound:

• [gz] sound

• "Exam" has the [gz] sound:

• natural [h] sound

• "Home" has the natural [e] sound:

• [j] sound

• "Joke" has the [j] sound:

• [k] sound

• "Cake" has the [k] sound:

• [ks] sound

• "Relax" has the [ks] sound:

• [kw] sound

• "Quite" has the [kw] sound:

• [l] sound

• "Live" has the [l] sound:

• [m] sound

• "My" has the [m] sound:

• [n] sound

• "Night" has the [n] sound:

• [p] sound

• "Pour" has the [p] sound:

• [r] sound

• "Red" has the [r] sound:

• [s] sound

• "System" has the [s] sound:

• [t] sound

• "Tune" has the [t] sound:

• [ts] sound

• "Pizza" has the [ts] sound:

• [v] sound

• "Voice" has the [v] sound:

• [w] sound

• "Wind" has the [w] sound:

• [z] sound

• "Zoo" has the [z] sound:

• [zh] sound

• "Mirage" has the [zh] sound: