How many words have /f/ in the medial position?

Our dictionary lists 356 medial /f/ words suitable for speech therapy practice.

What are some example medial /f/ words?

Examples include briefs, craft, crafts, draft, fifth, gift, gifts, graphs.

What does "medial /f/" mean?

It means the /f/ sound falls in the medial position of the word.

Which medial /f/ words have no competing sounds?

305 of them contain /f/ without the sounds children commonly substitute for it.

Medial F Words for Speech Therapy

356 medial f words, verified against the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. 305 contain the target sound without competing sounds.

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Articulation practice

Target /f/ · Medial

/f/

01briefs

02craft

03crafts

04draft

05fifth

06gift

07gifts

08graphs

verified/f/: 356 words · competing-free 305

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Word list

1-syllable

briefs
craft
crafts
draft
fifth
gift
gifts
graphs
left
lift
shaft
shift
soft
sphere
stuffed
swift
theft

2-syllable

affair
affairs
affect
affects
afford
afraid
after
aircraft
airfare
alpha
awful
before
beliefs
breakfast
briefing
briefly
buffer
cafe
careful
coffee
comfort
confirm
confirmed
conflict
conflicts
confused
default
defeat
defects
defence
defend
defense
deferred
define
defined
defines
differ
effect
effects
effort
efforts
fifteen
fifty
frankfurt
girlfriend
graphic
graphics
grateful
griffin
harmful
headphones
helpful
infant
infants
info
inform
informed
laughing
lifestyle
lifetime
murphy
offense
offer
offered
offers
office
offline
offset
offshore
often
oxford
painful
peaceful
perfect
perform
performed
performs
perfume
platform
platforms
prefer
preferred
prefers
prefix
profile
profiles
profit
profits
prophet
refer
referred
refers
refine
refined
reflect
reflects
reform
reforms
refresh
refund
refuse
refused
roughly
safely
safer
safety
seafood
sofa
softball
software
staffing
suffer
suffered
surface
surfing
therefore
traffic
transfer
transferred
transfers
transform
useful
warcraft
welfare
workflow
workforce

3-syllable

affected
affecting
afternoon
afterwards
atmosphere
battlefield
beautiful
beautifully
benefit
benefits
buffalo
butterfly
carefully
certified
classified
conference
conferencing
confidence
confident
configure
configured
confusion
defendant
defensive
deficit
defining
difference
different
differently
difficult
effective
efficient
elephant
emphasis
enforcement
graphical
hopefully
infected
infection
infections
infectious
infinite
inflation
influence
influenced
informal
infrared
infringement
interface
justify
meaningful
microphone
modified
modify
nonprofit
notified
notify
offensive
offering
offerings
officer
officers
offices
official
officials
pacific
paragraphs
perfectly
performance
performer
performing
photographs
powerful
preference
profession
professor
qualified
qualify
reference
referenced
referral
referrals
referring
refinance
reflected
reflection
reflections
refugees
refurbished
sacrifice
safari
sapphire
satisfied
satisfy
simplified
specific
specifics
specified
specifies
specify
successful
suffering
sufficient
surfaces
symphony
telephone
thereafter
tiffany
undefined
unified
uniform
verified
verify
wonderful

4-syllable

affiliate
affiliates
affordable
amplifier
artificial
atmospheric
beneficial
biographies
biography
certificate
certificates
comfortable
conferences
confidential
configuring
confirmation
definitely
definition
definitions
demographic
differences
differential
difficulties
difficulty
effectively
effectiveness
efficiency
efficiently
geographic
geography
identified
identifies
identify
influences
information
informative
infrastructure
interfaces
interference
magnificent
manufacture
manufactured
officially

Words without competing sounds

briefs
craft
crafts
draft
gift
gifts
graphs
left
lift
shaft
shift
soft
sphere
stuffed
swift
affair
affairs
affect
affects
afford
afraid
after
aircraft
airfare
alpha
awful
before
beliefs
breakfast
briefing
briefly
buffer
cafe
careful
coffee
comfort
confirm
confirmed
conflict
conflicts
confused
default
defeat
defects
defence
defend
defense
deferred
define
defined
defines
differ
effect
effects
effort
efforts
fifteen
fifty
frankfurt
girlfriend
graphic
graphics
grateful
griffin
harmful
headphones
infant
infants
info
inform
informed
laughing
lifestyle
lifetime
murphy
offense
offer
offered
offers
office
offline
offset
offshore
often
oxford
refer
referred
refers
refine
refined
reflect
reflects
reform
reforms
refresh
refund
refuse
refused
roughly
safely
safer
safety
seafood
sofa
softball
software
staffing
suffer
suffered
surface
surfing
therefore
traffic
transfer
transferred
transfers
transform
useful
warcraft
welfare
workflow
workforce
affected
affecting
afternoon
afterwards
atmosphere
battlefield
beautiful
beautifully
benefit
benefits
buffalo
butterfly
carefully
certified
classified
conference
conferencing
confidence
confident
configure
configured
confusion
defendant
defensive
deficit
defining
difference
different
differently
difficult
effective
efficient
elephant
emphasis
enforcement
graphical
infected
infection
infections
infectious
infinite
inflation
influence
influenced
informal
infrared
infringement
interface
justify
meaningful
microphone
modified
modify
notified
notify
offensive
offering
offerings
officer
officers
offices
official
officials
photographs
qualified
qualify
reference
referenced
referral
referrals
referring
refinance
reflected
reflection
reflections
refugees
refurbished
sacrifice
safari
sapphire
satisfied
satisfy
successful
suffering
sufficient
surfaces
symphony
telephone
thereafter
tiffany
undefined
unified
uniform
verified
verify
wonderful
affiliate
affiliates
affordable
artificial
atmospheric
beneficial
biographies
biography
certificate
certificates
comfortable
conferences
confidential
configuring
confirmation
definitely
definition
definitions
demographic
differences
differential
difficulties
difficulty
effectively
effectiveness
efficiency
efficiently
geographic
geography
identified
identifies
identify
influences
information
informative
infrastructure
interfaces
interference
magnificent
manufacture
manufactured
officially

Frequently asked questions

How many words have /f/ in the medial position?: Our dictionary lists 356 medial /f/ words suitable for speech therapy practice.
What are some example medial /f/ words?: Examples include briefs, craft, crafts, draft, fifth, gift, gifts, graphs.
What does "medial /f/" mean?: It means the /f/ sound falls in the medial position of the word.
Which medial /f/ words have no competing sounds?: 305 of them contain /f/ without the sounds children commonly substitute for it.