words that look confusing in the clear alphabet

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Clear Alphabet Dictionary
Words that Look Confusing in the Clear Alphabet
It’s difficult to understand a word in the Clear Alphabet when it looks like a word written in normal
spelling. Here are some examples of words in the Clear Alphabet that look like normal English words.
This can happen when a syllable with a single phoneme is represented by one letter, e.g. O f = “offer”,
but looks like the word “of”. It is especially true of items that have embedded schwa sounds – which are
not shown in the Clear Alphabet. It also often occurs with diphthongs such as ai and ei and long
vowel sounds, e.g. eir and or .
If you are working with the Clear Alphabet, you need to learn to think differently – in sounds and
syllables rather than letters and words. Can you find any more examples like the ones below?

Normal Spelling:

CA Spelling:

Other English word that it looks like:

cider
reader

Sai d
Ree d

said
reed

farmer
summer

Far m

Su m

farm
sum

jumper
slipper

Jum p
Sli p

jump
slip

letter
matter
porter

Le t
Ma t
Por t

let
mat
port

figure
offer
pasta
winner

Fi g
Of
Pa st
Wi n

fig
of
past
win

line
mile
pint
ride
side
while
white
wine

Lain
Mail
Paint
Raid
Said
Wail
Wait
Wain

lain

mail
paint
raid
said
wail
wait
wain

nail

Neil

Neil

nothing
since
suit

Nu tting
Sins
Soot

nutting
sins
soot

pence
tense

Pens

Tens

pens
tens

walk
ward
warm

Work
Word
Worm

work
word
worm

wear

Weir

weir

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Clear Alphabet Dictionary
Words that Look Confusing in the Clear Alphabet
The following Clear Alphabet spellings of words from the dictionary all look similar to or have elements
of other words with normal spellings:

Normal Spelling:

CA Spelling:

Other English word that it looks like:

beside
climb
egg
fight
lake
liver
loud
main
mineral water
mobile
next to
performer
pizza
singular form
solicitor
spider
stretcher
sunbathing
super

supporter
teacher
toward
trainer
turbulence
Twitter
voter
waiter
walkabout
water

b Said
Klaim
Eg
Fait
Leik
Li v
Laud
Mein
Min rl wor t
Meu bail
Ne kst
p For m
Pee_ ts
Sing gy l form
s Li s t
Spai d
Stre ch
Sun bei thing
Soo p

s Por t
Tee ch
t Word
Trei n
Ter by lns
Twi t
Veu t
Wei t
Wor k baut
Wor t

said
claim
e.g.
fate
like
live
laud
mein – German for “my”
wort
bail
next
perform/form
Pete's
gy looks like it should be soft, like the suffix
list
paid
stretch
thing
soup

port/support
teach
word
train

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wait
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