Effort ratings of phonemes in the order of CCVC that had been scaled for language distance from English by Greenberg and Jenkins (1964) were obtained from 28 native speakers of Portuguese, a language with few if any words in the order of CCVC. Mean scale values correlated .85 with S-scale values of the CCVCs. Mean scale values for effort ratings by native speakers of American English, Dutch, and Portuguese were plotted against Koutstaal, et al.'s (1972) categories for the CCVCs. The curves were judged to be comparable. Effort of pronunciation is discussed as a determinant of phonological patterns of words of any language.
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