Final CH Words for Speech Therapy
Words that end on CH — watch, beach, catch, teach. Many are spelled tch rather than ch, which makes no difference to the pronunciation and none to how these lists are matched.
Also called word-final CH, CH in the final position, or words ending in CH.
- 33
- words
- 28
- competing-free
- 1–2
- syllables
All 33 Final CH words
28 of 33 words contain the target without the sounds children commonly substitute for it
1-syllable · 27
- arch
- batch
- beach
- breach
- catch
- church
- coach
- dutch
- each
- march
- match
- much
- patch
- pitch
- reach
- rich
- scratch
- search
- speech
- stretch
- such
- switch
- teach
- touch
- watch
- which
- witch
2-syllable · 6
- approach
- attach
- dispatch
- outreach
- research
- sandwich
- 01arch
- 02batch
- 03beach
- 04breach
- 05catch
- 06church
- 07coach
- 08dutch
/ch/: 33 words · competing-free 28Generate a Final CH practice pack
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- Say & dab game
- Data sheet + probe
- Home practice letter (B&W)
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About Final CH words
Word-final CH has to be released with nothing following it, which makes the affricate audible in a way it never is mid-word. That works in the clinician’s favour: a dropped stop or a missing release is obvious at the end of a word.
The competing error at the end of a word is omission rather than substitution — the whole affricate disappears and beach becomes bee. Distinguishing omission from deaffrication matters, because a child dropping the sound entirely may be simplifying the syllable rather than the consonant.
Practising Final CH
Exaggerating the release on a single-syllable word gives the child both the auditory and the tactile signal at once. The list is compact enough to work through fully, which makes it useful for probing carryover.
Acquisition ages: Crowe & McLeod (2020), American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology. Educational content — an SLP chooses the target for a specific child.
Therapy guides
Final consonant deletion
“Ca” for “cat”: when it stops, how to tell it from a sound error, and minimal pairs that work.
Read the guideMinimal pairs therapy
Minimal pairs examples by pattern, how a session runs, and a worked fronting example.
Read the guidePrint-and-go articulation activities
No-prep drill ideas that turn a word list into a full session.
Read the guideFrequently asked questions
- How many words have /ch/ in the final position?
- Our dictionary lists 33 final /ch/ words suitable for speech therapy practice.
- What are some example final /ch/ words?
- Examples include arch, batch, beach, breach, catch, church, coach, dutch.
- Is tch a different sound from ch?
- No — watch and beach end in exactly the same sound. The tch spelling is an orthographic convention after short vowels and does not change the pronunciation.
- My student drops the CH at the end of words entirely. Is that deaffrication?
- Not necessarily. Losing the whole sound is final consonant deletion, a syllable-level pattern, while deaffrication keeps part of the sound. The two are treated differently, so the distinction is worth making.