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.