Want this question answered?
not: one shower or couch the answer is coach COAch windOW... same sound, right?
Words that have the same vowel sound as "grouch" include pouch, ouch, slouch, and crouch.
Yes, the O in window is a long O (oh), as in the words low, grow, and stow. The I is a short I sound (in, win).
The OU vowel sound in mouth is an OW or OU sound, as in south. Words spelled with an OU include loud, sound, round, house, mouse, doubt, stout, ounce, pounce, bounce, cloud, couch, and flour (flower). It is in the OW words vow and vowel, and the words cow, how, plow, towel, tower, brown, and drowsy.
The vowel pair in found has an OU or OW sound. It is in the rhyming words bound, hound, mound, pound, round, and sound. Other words with an OU include house, mouse and spouse. Also stout, ounce, pounce, bounce, cloud, couch, flour (flower), and sound. Words with an OW include how, plow, brown, and drowsy.
not: one shower or couch the answer is coach COAch windOW... same sound, right?
Words that have the same vowel sound as "grouch" include pouch, ouch, slouch, and crouch.
Yes, the O in window is a long O (oh), as in the words low, grow, and stow. The I is a short I sound (in, win).
The OU vowel sound in mouth is an OW or OU sound, as in south. Words spelled with an OU include loud, sound, round, house, mouse, doubt, stout, ounce, pounce, bounce, cloud, couch, and flour (flower). It is in the OW words vow and vowel, and the words cow, how, plow, towel, tower, brown, and drowsy.
The vowel pair in found has an OU or OW sound. It is in the rhyming words bound, hound, mound, pound, round, and sound. Other words with an OU include house, mouse and spouse. Also stout, ounce, pounce, bounce, cloud, couch, flour (flower), and sound. Words with an OW include how, plow, brown, and drowsy.
The vowel sound in crowd is an OW or OU vowel pair sound, to rhyme with loud, cloud, and proud. It is in the OW words vow and vowel, and the words cow, how, plow, towel, tower, brown, and drowsy. Words spelled with an OU include sound, round, house, mouse, doubt, stout, ounce, pounce, bounce, cloud, couch, and flour (flower).
The vowel sound in now is an OW or OU vowel pair sound. It is in the words vow and vowel, and the words cow, how, plow, towel, tower, brown, and drowsy. Words spelled with an OU include sound, round, house, mouse, doubt, stout, ounce, pounce, bounce, cloud, couch, and flour (flower).
The vowel sound in house is an OW sound from the OU vowel pair (howse).The OW has this sound in the words vow and vowel, and the words cow, how, plow, towel, tower, brown, and drowsy.Words spelled with an OU include sound, round, mouse, doubt, stout, ounce, pounce, bounce, cloud, couch, and flour (flower).
couch slouch pouch
Excluding the words with -rch which have R-controlled vowels, there are several vowel pairs that have long sounds before a -ch or -tch : EE words as in beech and speech EA words as in beach and teach OA words that have a long O sound as in coach, broach, and poach OO words such as hooch and pooch OU words that have the OW sound, as in couch and pouch There are no single-letter exceptions to the -ch/-tch pattern.
couch, pouch, touch
Only for some words. The OU in grouch has the OW sound as in couch and pouch. The letters OUGH can have 4 different sounds: In dough, it is the long O (oh) as in though and thorough. In cough, it is the AW sound as in trough. In rough, it is the short U sound as in tough and slough. Only in bough (bow) and plough (plow) does it have the same OW sound as grouch.