Which term describes two or three consonants together but they keep their original sounds?

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Which term describes two or three consonants together but they keep their original sounds?

Consonant blends describe two or three consonants that appear together but keep their own sounds. When you say a word with a blend, you can hear each consonant separately, like the /b/ and /l/ in blend or the /s/ /t/ /r/ in street. This is different from consonant digraphs, where two letters work together to produce one sound (such as sh or th). It also differs from vowel digraphs, where two vowels come together to produce a single vowel sound, and from alliteration, which is the repetition of initial sounds across words, not about decoding a cluster inside a word. So the term that fits is consonant blends.

Consonant blends describe two or three consonants that appear together but keep their own sounds. When you say a word with a blend, you can hear each consonant separately, like the /b/ and /l/ in blend or the /s/ /t/ /r/ in street. This is different from consonant digraphs, where two letters work together to produce one sound (such as sh or th). It also differs from vowel digraphs, where two vowels come together to produce a single vowel sound, and from alliteration, which is the repetition of initial sounds across words, not about decoding a cluster inside a word. So the term that fits is consonant blends.

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