How to Improve Your Spanish Pronunciation Skills

1. Palabras Just Roll Off Your Tongue.
2. Soften Your T’s and D’s.
3. Leave the Buzz.
4. Make Your Spanish Pronunciation Musical.
5. Correct Your Vowel Sounds.
6. Learn to Link Your Words.

In general, Spanish pronunciation is quite regular. You can tell how to pronounce a word from the way it’s written once you know what sound each letter (or group of letters) represents. Luckily, the sounds almost always match the spelling. Many speak the consonant sounds in a similar way to English.

Spanish has noticeably fewer sounds than English, both for consonants and vowels. But what’s more important is that ninety-nine percent of the time you pronounce just what’s written.

In English, QU is always used as a digraph (a pair of letters representing a single speech sound) for the sound /kw/ (a voiceless labiovelar stop). Q’s pairing with U is a Latin invention that has its origin in Greek. Loan words such as Qur’an and Iraq are examples of Q’s guttural /k/ sound.

Of the 82 words in this list, 78 are (or can be) interpreted as nouns, and most would generally be considered loanwords; the only modern-English words that contain Q not followed by U and are not borrowed from another language are freq, qiana, QWERTY, and tranq.

3 letter words with the letter Q

• qaf.
• qat.
• qis.
• qua.
• quo.
• suq.

Looking for 2 letter words containing Q? Well, there is only 1 word that contains the letter Q, the wonderful qi (Sometimes spelled chi or ki)!

There aren’t many words in the English language that end with the letter Q. Some of these words may beobsolete, or rarely used in any language. If you can use words with a Q near the end, you might explore words with Q not followed by U or words ending in -que, -qu, -qe, -qa, -qi, or -qs.

Can you name the countries ending with the letter ‘Q’?

Words that End in Q

• 5 Letter Words. talaq 15 tranq 15
• 4 Letter Words. seqq 22 cinq 17
• 3 Letter Words. coq 15 loq 13 suq 13 esq 12 seq 12 Word Finders.

breakthrough

• breakthrough.
• commonwealth.
• butterscotch.
• spectrograph.
• counterpunch.
• blabbermouth.
• oscillograph.
• disestablish.

5-letter words

• about.
• above.
• abuse.
• actor.
• acute.
• admit.
• adopt.
• adult.