CVC to CCCVCC with ‘short’ vowelsWith ck and quWith other vowelsRarely 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

One response to “ch as in chip”

  1. joanne says:

    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 🙂

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