In coast, the OA pair has a long O vowel sound, as in boast, toast, and most.
The long O may be heard in words such as:
O words - over, omen, okay, cold, toll, folk, poem, stoma
O words ending with E or Y - cone, dome, hope, tote, mole, bony, nosy, posey
OA words - soap, loan, float, roam, soak, coal
OE words - doe, woes, Oboe (2)
OW words - blow, mow, own
The vowel sound in boy is spelled either u or oi.
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The words "most," "boast," and "coast" have the same long "o" vowel sound as "ghost."
Some words that have the same vowel sound as "ghost" include toast, boast, most, and coast.
Yes. The E has a short E vowel sound, as in spell.
The word you are looking for is "shine." It has the same vowel sound as "kite," contains five letters, and refers to what the sun does by emitting light.
The word strengths has only 1 short vowel. (9 letters) The word strengthlessness has 3 short vowels (17 letters)
No, "gloomy" and "look" do not have the same vowel sound. In "gloomy," the vowel sound is /uː/, as in the word "blue." In "look," the vowel sound is /ʊ/, which is a shorter and more closed sound. The two words have different vowel sounds due to the pronunciation of the letters "oo" in each word.
In the word "coast," the "o" is pronounced as a long vowel sound.
Yes, the letters EIGH are pronounced as a long A sound (ay). The words include neigh, sleigh, weigh, eight, weight, and neighbor.
words that have the vowel sound you hear in dried
The combination of a root and a vowel is known as a vowel diacritic. Vowel diacritics are symbols that are added to consonant letters to indicate the vowel sound associated with that consonant.