One-syllable wordsLonger words
book  
brook
chook
cook
crook
foot
good
goog
goop
hood
hoof
hook
koosh
look
nook
oops
rook
shook
shoosh
sook
soot
squoosh
stood
swoosh
took
wood
woof
wool
afoot  
betook
bigfoot
booger
boogie
bookend
booker
bookie
booking
bookish
booklet
boyhood
cooker
cookery
cookie
cooking
cookoff
cookout
cooktop
footage
footed
footer
footman
footpad
footsie
footy
forsook
goodbye
goodies
goodly
goody
googly
hooded
hoodie
hoodlum
hoodwink
hookah
hooker
hookey
hookup
hooky
hooray
hotfoot
logbook
looker
looking
lookout
lookup
manhood
mistook
nooky
oompah
outlook
overlook
partook
plywood
prebook
precook
rebook
recook
relook
retook
rookery
rookie
skyhook
snooty
sooty
tenterhooks
understood
unhook
withstood
whoopee
woodcut
wooded
wooden
woodlot
woodsman
woodsy
woodwax
woody
woofers
woofing
woollies (US woolies)
woolly (US wooly)
woomera

4 responses to “oo as in look”

  1. Judith says:

    I was trying to come up with some ‘oo as in hook’ words, longer than one syllable, that would also be useful vocabulary words, and I wondered if you might like to add them to the list:
    overlook
    understood
    withstood
    hoodwink
    tenterhooks

  2. Stephanie Gerig says:

    What’s the rule about when oo makes the sounds like took vs. spoon??

    • alison says:

      There isn’t a hard-and-fast rule, just some typical patterns, and if you get a bunch of words with oo spellings and sort them by sound you’ll be able to see these e.g. the ook words are usually like ‘took’ and the ‘oon’ words are usually like ‘spoon’. I’d recommend firstly working from sound to spelling, though e.g. get lots of words with the vowel sound as in good, put, could, wolf and sort them by spelling, and do the same for words with the vowel as in soon, June, chew, blue etc, and after that flip to the decoding direction and notice that the spelling ‘oo’ is used for both sounds. In some accents, a word will be in one group, and in other accents it’ll be in the other group e.g. the word ‘foot’ in London versus Glasgow. Hope that makes sense. Alison

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