| 字母组合 | 发音 | 例词 | 例外 |
| ai | ei | rain, brain, pain, train, fail, tail, | Said, bargain, portrait |
| ay | ei | day, way, may, gray, play, say, delay, | says |
| au | ɔ: | Autumn, August, Australia, fault, cause, | Aunt, laugh, |
| aw | ɔ: | law, saw, raw, strawberry | |
| air | eə | air, chair, stair, fair, hair, repair, | are |
| are | eə | care, dare, share, rare, glare, square | |
| augh | ɔ: | taught caught | |
| ar | ɑ: | car, bar, far, farm, park, garden, smart | |
| ə: | popular | ||
| ɔ: | war quarter toward warn reward warmth | ||
| al | ɔ: | all ball tall hall mall fall chalk | |
| ɔ:l | almost false salt always | ||
| ea | i: | sea, reach, please, peace, leave, wheat, jeans, mean, east, deal, defeat, cheat, teach, team, steal, steam, repeat, speak | idea, area, real, reality, realize, theatre, ocean, forehead, beautiful, reality, Oceania |
| e | head, bread, heavy, weather, spread, health, deaf, instead, feather, thread, sweater, dead, breakfast, pleasant, treasure, measure, breath, wealth | ||
| ei | break, great, steak | ||
| ear |
iə | year, near, hear, clear, fear, dear, tear | Heart, warm-hearted |
| eə | tear, wear, pear, bear | ||
| ə: | earn, early, search, learn, heard, earth | ||
| ee | i: | need, freeze, sheep, screen, seek, bleed |
