How Do You Spell STRAUGHAN?

Pronunciation: [stɹˈɔːən] (IPA)

"Straughan" is a surname that is spelled with thirteen letters and pronounced as [strɔːn]. This phonetic transcription reveals that the first two letters, "st," are pronounced as a voiceless alveolar sibilant /s/ followed by a voiceless alveolar stop /t/. The next three letters, "rau," are pronounced with a diphthong /raʊ/, and the last five letters, "ghan," are pronounced with a voiced velar fricative /ɣ/ followed by a voiceless velar stop /k/ and a nasal /n/. Thus, "Straughan" is a complex word whose spelling matches perfectly with its pronunciation.