| CVC to CCCVCC with ‘short’ vowels | With ck and qu | With other vowels | Rarely after a ‘short’ vowel |
| belch bench blanch blench branch brunch bunch Chad champ Chan chant chap chat Chen chess chest chill chimp chin chip chit chomp chop chuff chug chum chump clench clinch conch crunch drench filch finch flinch French Grinch gulch hunch inch lunch milch mulch munch pinch punch ranch scrunch stanch stench tench trench welch wench winch zilch | check chick chock chuck quench squelch | arch beach beech birch bleach breach broach church coach couch crouch each hooch larch leach leech lurch march mooch ouch parch peach perch poach pooch porch pouch preach reach roach screech slouch smirch smooch speech starch teach torch vouch | attach bachelor breeches duchess much ostrich rich spinach such touch which |
Spelfabet
Learning the building blocks of words – sounds, their spellings, and word parts
I have another word for your list! Sandwich.
I am telling my students that usually 1 syllable words that have a sort vowel use ‘ch’ for the ch sound.
Otherwise, we use TCH.
Except for those tricky worms (WHICH RICH MUCH SUCH). We have a class worm farm 🙂