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/n/ Sound Spelled KN Word List

By Rodney Everson

The /n/ sound has five common spellings, n, nn, ne, kn, and gn.

The "kn" spelling of the /n/ sound typically occurs at the beginning of words, or of chunks in longer words.

Of the 7,000 words in the database constructed from a popular children’s dictionary, 17 of them are words with the /n/ sound spelled "kn".

Note on the word divisions: Each word is divided into chunks determined by the unique and effective OnTrack Reading Multisyllable Method. The chunks are not syllables.

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