build

built

buoy

buy

5 responses to “bu as in build”

  1. Evana Philip says:

    I WANT BU WORDS AS IN BUILDING OK NOT SYNONYMS OF BUILDING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!111111

    • alison says:

      Sorry, I only know of three lemmas with this phoneme-grapheme correspondence: build, buy and buoy. There are lots of other words that start with ‘bu’ but these letters represent two sounds, not one sound, in them.

  2. Jody Martin says:

    I’m wondering should it be ui together for the /i / sound
    Eg
    Guilt guilty

  3. Jody Martin says:

    Ooh I love your thinking!!! Love your site!

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