Question

How many phonemes are in the word "change"?

Answer 1

A phoneme is generally defined as 'minimal distinctive unit of sound.' Part of what makes English difficult to learn is that each letter in the alphabet can represent more than one sound. Plus, since the alphabet only has 26 letters yet represents 44 sounds, many English phonemes are represented by two or three letters working together to represent one sound.

This is how to write change in phonemic script:

/'tʃ-eɪ-n-dʒ/

Therefore, there are four phonemes in the word "change"