S Phoneme Words

S Phoneme at a glance:

• Words with s include sack, simple, sleep
• Words with c include cent, city, celebrate
• Words with ce include fence, bounce, ambulance
• Words with ss include kiss, fussy, mattress
• Words with se include horse, house, mouse

Spelling Frequencies:

• s - 73%
• c - 20% (includes 'ce' as in fence)
• ss - 4%
• se - 2%

Rare Spelling Patterns:

• sc (science)
• st (listen)
• ps (psalm)

Additional things to note:

In regards to ‘c’ (city) and ‘ce’ (fence) making /s/, I was unable to find any statistics that separate the use-case of each grapheme, which is why they have been grouped together.