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Difficulty: MediumRhymes and Sound Matching

Pair each word from the left list with the word from the right list that produces an identical ending sound.

  • gnawthaw
  • cachetrash
  • aislevile
  • receiptdeceit

Answer

'Gnaw' pairs with 'thaw', 'cache' pairs with 'trash', 'aisle' pairs with 'vile', and 'receipt' pairs with 'deceit'.
Each target word on the left matches its corresponding phonetic rhyme on the right regardless of spelling differences: 'gnaw' (/nɔː/) pairs with 'thaw' (/θɔː/), 'cache' (/kæʃ/) pairs with 'trash' (/træʃ/), 'aisle' (/aɪl/) pairs with 'vile' (/vaɪl/), and 'receipt' (/rɪˈsiːt/) pairs with 'deceit' (/dɪˈsiːt/).

Step-by-Step Solution

1
Determine the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) transcriptions of the left items while accounting for silent letters.
'gnaw' = /nɔː/ (silent 'g'), 'cache' = /kæʃ/ (silent 'e'), 'aisle' = /aɪl/ (silent 'a' and 's'), 'receipt' = /rɪˈsiːt/ (silent 'p').
Rhyming assessment in English relies entirely on acoustic sound units rather than visual orthography.
2
Determine the IPA transcriptions of the right items.
'vile' = /vaɪl/, 'thaw' = /θɔː/, 'deceit' = /dɪˈsiːt/, 'trash' = /træʃ/.
Identifying the ending vowel-consonant combinations allows direct pairing.
3
Match pairs possessing identical terminal phonemes.
gnaw (/nɔː/) matches thaw (/θɔː/); cache (/kæʃ/) matches trash (/træʃ/); aisle (/aɪl/) matches vile (/vaɪl/); receipt (/rɪˈsiːt/) matches deceit (/dɪˈsiːt/).
Each corresponding pair shares the exact same end vowel and consonant sound values.

Key Concept

Phonetic Sound Matching and Silent Consonants
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Rhymes and Sound Matching

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