What is the right pronunciation of the following words: ship, chip, and cheap?

Answer 1

 ship begins with the sound SHHHHHH like you are telling someone to be quiet. The I is a short vowel like most frequently found in the sight words it, in, him, rip, tip. Chip begins with the phonetical sound CH like a sound a train makes CHOO CHOO or like in chicken or church. The I is again a short vowel found in the same words as ship. Other words with the same vowel sounds are hit, six, fit. Cheap has the same beginning as chip (remember CHOO CHOO) the vowel combo ea is a long E sound found in words like each, teach, meat. The last sound is P. like in put, peach, pop. Put your lips together and push air through them.

Answer 2

ship and chip like Kip, dip, flip, gladys night & the pips, nip it in the bud, sip, whip, zippidy do da, bip bop, bippy

cheap is like sheep, beep, keep, reap, deep, sleep, weep, leap, steep, creep, heap, jeep, Grand Cherokee Jeep, sleep, teep as in T-pee where Indians live, veep as in vice president,

ship and chip have the short i sound

cheap has the long e sound

Answer 3

In the international phonetic alphabet, the American English Pronunciations are

ʃɪp = ship

t͡ʃɪp = chip

and

t͡ʃip = cheap

The main difference between chip and cheap is the different vowel sound.