This page contains a table including the following: French alphabet, letters which help you pronounce the words in a given language, you will also learn about the different consonants and vowels, make sure to check out our phrases in French which can be found on the menu above. Or get help here Languages Forum. |
French is spoken by about 265 million people in France, Belgium, Luxembourg, Canada, Switzerland, Italy, the U.S, Lebanon, French Guiana, north, west and central Africa, Madagascar, some islands in the Indian Ocean, Haiti and other Caribbean islands, Indochina, New Caledonia, the New Hebrides and the French Pacific Territories. French Alphabet has the same number of letters as English 26, but some of them have “accents” and “cedilla”, that doesn’t make their pronunciation different, only to distinguish them from other similar looking words except the cedilla ç, which is pronounced as “S” and never as “k”. The table below shows how the French letters are pronounced.
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| French Letter | English Sound |
|---|---|
| A | as in the word “ask” and never as in the word “able” |
| B | same as in English |
| C | like “s” before "i" or "e" and when it has the cedilla “ç”; otherwise like "k” in Creole. |
| D | same as in English (many words in French alphabet are the same) |
| E | as in “elevated” |
| F | same as in English |
| G | like the "s" in the word “pleasure” before "e" or "i"; otherwise like the "g" in "God", never pronounced as “dj”. |
| H | silent most of the time. |
| I | as in the word “ink” never as in the word “island” |
| J | as in Job, but without the “d” pronounced before the J, never as {djob} but {job} |
| K | same as in English |
| L | same as in English |
| M | same as in English |
| N | same as in English |
| O | same as in English “Old” never as in “Hot” which is pronounced somehow like {hat} |
| P | same as in English |
| Q | same as in English |
| R | same as in English but slightly like as in “gh” as in Merci |
| S | same as in English |
| T | same as in English not as sharp. |
| U | as in the “ultra”, never as in the word “up” or “university” |
| V | same as in English |
| W | as in English although rare (mainly found in borrowed words) |
| X | same as in English |
| Y | same as in English although rare |
| X | same as in English |
As you may have noticed, many letters in French alphabet are the same as English, the pronunciation is a little bit different sometimes, but in general French letters look the same, and sound the same, so learning them would be a breeze!
I hope the content of this page was useful to you, and that you learned some French alphabet, consonants and vowels. Make sure to memorize them to be able to use them in your daily conversation.
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