LAX VOWELS
WORD LISTS
| i |
pit, drink, swim, splint,
grill, brick, twist, drift |
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| e |
pet, spent, trend, swell, fresh, check, theft,
crest |
| ea |
dead, pleasant, treasure |
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| a |
pat, scant, strand, crash, flash, blast, draft |
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| o |
pot, blond, slosh, crock, tromp, frost, cross |
| au |
author, fault, laundry |
| augh |
naught, caught, fraught |
| ough |
ought, bought, thought, fought |
| aw |
law, flaw, claw |
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| u |
putt, chunk, flung, grunt, skull,
thrush, pluck, plump |
| ou |
touch, double, country, enough |
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| u |
put, pull, push, gush, rut, tusk, husk |
| oo |
hood, hoof, look, boook, stood, brook,
shook, crook |
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ou |
could, should, would |
TENSE VOWELS
WORD LISTS
| SINGLE VOWEL - stressed syllable, pronounced
by name |
| i |
final, reliable |
| e |
decent, recent, secret |
| a |
maple, table, angel, sable, cradle |
| o |
open, over, vocal, society, global |
| u |
music, bucolic |
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| VOWLE CLUSTERS - pronounced by name
- vowel + e |
| i + e |
mile, smile, kite, bite, bike, strike, like, size,
brine, prize |
| e + e |
even, theme, complete, decent, concrete, discrete |
| a + e |
stake, make, rake, cake, made, cape, tape, stage,
plane |
| o + e |
stove, close, hose, code, bone, stone, phone, stroke |
| u + e |
tube, cube, rude, exude, conclude, flute, prune, crude |
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| VOWEL CLUSTERS - pronounced by name |
| ia |
dial, diamond, trial, denial |
| ie |
tie, die, height, pie, replies |
| igh |
sigh, sight, flight, high, bright |
| -y |
cry, fly |
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| ee |
seem, feel, steel, bee, even, agreed, queen, beetle |
| ea |
team, neat, seal, deal, cream, treason, seam, near,
reach |
| -ey |
money, donkey, honey, key, monkey |
| -y |
baby, happy, wonky, city |
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| ai |
paid, raid, lair, air, stair, chair, wait, gait, hair,
praise |
| ay |
pay, say, relay, decay, ashtray, tray |
| eigh |
eight, weight, freight, weigh, sleigh, neighbour |
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| oa |
goat, moat, cloak, coat, oak, boat, goal, throat,
approach |
| oe |
toe, doe, foe, goes, hoe |
| ow |
mow, glow, throw, snow, grow, know, window, shallow |
| ew |
sew |
| ou |
soul |
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| ue |
cue, statue, continue, tissue, argue |
| eu |
feud |
| ew |
ewe, few |
| ui |
nuisance |
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| VOWEL CLUSTERS - not pronounced by
name |
| ie |
grief, belief, chief, relief |
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| ea |
cleanse, dread, threat, dreamt, bread, spread, thread |
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| ou |
out, shout, about, pound, loud, trout, council |
| ow |
now, plow, crowd, growl, chowder, powder, shower |
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| oo |
tool, school, cool, roost, school, tooth, bloom, proof |
| ew |
jewel, chew, new, pweter, dew |
| ui |
fruit, suit, juice, cruise |
| ue |
true, blue, duel, clue, cruel |
| ou |
soup, croup, group, youth, wound |
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| oi |
foil, toil, soil, recoil. joint, turmoil, poison,
noise |
| oy |
toy, boy, joy , destroy, voyage, enjoy, corduroy |
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