Minimal Pairs e and ɪ
Minimal Pairs /e/ and /ɪ/
desk and disk
Useful Tip
Both sounds are short, with /ɪ/ being pronounced with a wider mouth, almost in a kind of smile. This makes it much closer to the long sound /i:/ than it is to the short sound /e/.
Elementary
- dead did
- desk disk
Pre-Intermediate
- belt built
- fell fill
- head hid
- left lift
- mess miss
Intermediate
- bed bid
- beg big
- bell bill
- bet bit
- check chick
- gem gym
- hell hill
- hem him
- let lit
- pet pit
Upper-Intermediate
- bend binned
- bent bint
- cheque chick
- deck dick
- fen fin
- get git
- jest gist
- leapt lipped
- led lid
- lest list
- kecks kicks
- kept kipped
- meddle middle
- messed mist
- peg pig
- set sit
Advanced
- bless bliss
- Celt kilt
- clef cliff
- clench clinch
- crept crypt
- dell dill
- den din
- dent dint
- fetter fitter
- fez fizz
- fleck flick
- fretter fritter
- gelding gilding
- heck hick
- hem hymn
- hep hip
- hex hicks
- ken kin
- ketch kitsch
- Med mid
- phlegm flim
- quell quill
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