VowelseaDifficulty: A1
EA often sounds like /iː/, but common words use /ɛ/, /eɪ/ or another vowel. Learn frequent word families.
Examples
eat · sea · teacher · clean
Other pronunciations and limits
bread /brɛd/ · head /hɛd/ · great /ɡreɪt/ · break /breɪk/ · heart /hɑːrt/ (US), /hɑːt/ (UK)
Example sentence
We eat fresh bread by the sea.