Free or Bound?
does
doing
undo
<do> is a free base element.
pill
Double
chef, chivalry
<ch> ~ /ʃ/
the blue house
blue
action
active
react
<act> is a free base element.
bookkeeper
No double.
hour, honor
The silent <h>.
a bigger house
bigger
disrupt
interrupt
rupture
<rupt> is a bound base element
flatten
Double.
garage, massage
The <-age> suffix, especially pronounced as [ɑʒ]
our guest house
guest
month
Monday
<mon> is a bound base element
suggest
No double.
cigarette, kitchenette, suffragette
The <-ette> suffix.
the house on the hill
on the hill
devastate
vastly
<vast> is a free base element.
correct
No double.
beauty, bureau
<The <eau> trigraph.
the house that Jack built
that Jack built