| Spelling |
Example words with link to relevant wordlist
(bracketed words contain the spelling representing two sounds, not one)
|
| a |
rabbit, changing, basket, husband, wallet, almost |
| a…e |
mistake, (sesame) |
| ai |
explain, bargain, (mosaic) |
| air |
fairly |
| ar |
cartoons, parents, forward, (diary) |
| are |
hardware |
| au |
author, fault |
| aw |
coleslaw, (seaweed) |
| ay |
birthday, papaya |
| e |
tennis, legal, cafe, jacket |
| e…e |
athlete |
| ea |
sneakers, weather, (idea) |
| ear |
unclear, early, swearing |
| ee |
coffee |
| eer |
career |
| ei |
protein, kaleidoscope |
| er |
interpret, cereal, deliver, (heron) |
| ew |
cashew, mewing, (driveway) |
| i |
ribbon, spider, media, exit, onion |
| i..e |
outside, engine, sardine, (recipe) |
| ie |
cookies, magpie, (alien) |
| igh |
highlight |
| ir |
thirsty, (pirate) |
| o |
collar, motel, kilos (not kiloes), money, person |
| o…e |
tadpole, purpose, (calzone) |
| oe |
dingoes, (poem) |
| oi |
toilet, (stoic) |
| oo |
scooter, football, (oo as in coopt) |
| or |
normal, network, forgive, (forest) |
| ou |
trousers, coupon, furious |
| ow |
tower, follow |
| oy |
oyster |
| u |
buttons, octopus, ruby, unit, language, focus |
| u…e |
commute, (museum) |
| ue |
muesli, untrue, (cruel) |
| ur |
turnip, murmur, (fury) |
| y |
bilby, python, gym, canyon, oxygen |
| y…e |
megabyte |
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Hi Alison
I am working with some teachers and using your lists (thank yo so much for these – Pure Gold!!)
I clicked on the ‘cartoon’ words expecting multisyllabic words with the ‘ar’ digraph and it seems that the list contains ‘oo’ words. I feel like this might be an error ???? I thought I’d see what you think.
Cheers
Jenny, thank you SO MUCH for noticing this error, I’ve fixed it up, I can’t believe I didn’t see it before, it’s been there for probably four years! I’m going to send you a free set of my new workbooks to say thankyou for taking the time to tell me about this. I only have one-syllable ar words on there at the moment but I must add some two-syllable ones, but anyway if you want wordlists containing a particular letter sequence you can just google “morewords contains ar” and a list will come up which can be sorted by length or frequency. It’s meant for people playing word games but it works for us too. Thanks again, Alison