IPA – Consonants

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Consonnes en IPA

French has a total of 20 French consonant sounds, and thus 20 IPA symbols for these sounds. However, three of these sounds are only in words borrowed from other languages and one is very rare, so there are really just 16 French essential consonant sounds.

Click the links under "spelling" for detailed lessons on those letters, and the links under "examples" for sound files.

IPA	Spelling	Examples	Notes
[b]	B	bus – barbe
[k]	C CH CK K QU	content psychologie ticket parking chèque
[d]	D	degré – grande
[f]	F PH	février – soif téléphone
[g]	G	guichet – agacé
[ʒ]	G J	gêner – sage juin – trajet
[h]	H	hé – hou	always optional
[ l ]	L	laver – gallois
[m]	M	melon – numéro
[n]	N	neige – carnet
[ɲ]	GN	ligne – espagnol
[ŋ]	NG	building	words from English
[p]	P	poivron – surpris
[ʀ]	R	rose – priorité
[s]	C C S SC SS TI X	cicatrice garçon sage sciences grosse circulation six
[ʃ]	CH SH	enchanté short
[t]	D T TH	quand on ticket – honteux athlétique	only in liaisons
[v]	F V W	neuf ans voleur wagon	only in liaisons   words from German
[x]	J KH	jota cheikh	words from Spanish words from Arabic
[z]	S X Z	gasoil deux enfants néo-zélandais	only in liaisons

 Related lessons

• IPA for vowels
• Introduction to IPA
• LKL pronunciation key
• French alphabet
• Pronunciation lessons

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