baguette

beguile

dengue

disguise

guarantee

guard

Guernica

guernsey

guess

guest

Guevara

Guiana

guide

guile

guild

guillotine

guilt

guinea

Guinness

guise

guitar

guy

languor

Portuguese

roguish

 

5 responses to “gu as in guess”

  1. Patricia says:

    Isn’t the reason for the u following the g in many words in order to separate the e or i thus keeping the g with a hard sound.

  2. Gabriel Fagundes Rocha says:

    some words like language, extinguish, and anguish… has /gw/ sound, it’s not in the list

  3. DPH says:

    is a digraph, not two monographs. This includes when it’s pronounced as /gw/. Some digraphs code for two phonemes. It’s analogous to .

    It’s only when followed by a consonant phoneme, e.g. gut, gum, gun, gull, gulp, etc.

    See
    https://teflpedia.com/%E2%9F%A8gu%E2%9F%A9

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