A majority of all EA words have the sound of a long E, including:
beach, beak, beam, bean, beast, beat, bleach
clean, clear, cleat, cleave
deal, dean, dear
each, ear, east, eat, eaves
fear, feast, feat
gear, gleam, grease
heal, heap, hear, heat
knead
lead (leed), leaf, leak, lean, leap, least
meal, mean, meat
near, neat
pea, peace, peach, peak, peal, peat, plead, preach
reach, read (reed), real, ream, rear
sea, seal, seam, seat, sheaf, speak, squeal, steal
teach, teak, tear (crying), tease, teat
veal
wean, wheat
yeast
zeal
easy, beach, teach
The EA sounds like EE in many words, including easy and please.
There are none where the EA has an "ah" sound. But there are words spelled with EA that have separate sounds for the two (ee-ah): beatitude is one. There are also words that have a short A other than the EA, such as anteater.
There are a few words with EA followed by R which sounds like a long A, but is technically a caret A (air) sound: bear, pear, swear, wear and tear (rip).The words that do have a long A include great (grate), break (brake), and steak (stake).
The three common ones are break, steak, and great. (the words bear, pear, swear, tear, and wear are called caret A words, not long A)
The long A words are break, steak, and great.There are several -ear words but they are R-shaped or caret A words:bear (and bearing, forebear), pear, swear, tear (verb), wear (and footwear)
The EA sounds like EE in many words, including easy and please.
Some words with the long a sound spelled like steak are: break, great, and straight.
There are none where the EA has an "ah" sound. But there are words spelled with EA that have separate sounds for the two (ee-ah): beatitude is one. There are also words that have a short A other than the EA, such as anteater.
There are a few words with EA followed by R which sounds like a long A, but is technically a caret A (air) sound: bear, pear, swear, wear and tear (rip).The words that do have a long A include great (grate), break (brake), and steak (stake).
The three common ones are break, steak, and great. (the words bear, pear, swear, tear, and wear are called caret A words, not long A)
The long A words are break, steak, and great.There are several -ear words but they are R-shaped or caret A words:bear (and bearing, forebear), pear, swear, tear (verb), wear (and footwear)
The long A words are break, steak, and great.There are several -ear words but they are R-shaped or caret A words:bear (and bearing, forebear), pear, swear, tear (verb), wear (and footwear)
The word 'meadow' has a short E sound in the first syllable. It also has a long O sound in the second syllable. Some examples of other words where the EA pair have the short e sound are bread, death, and sweat. However, most words with EA together do have a long e sound. For example, the words bead and meal have a long E sound.
Yes, the word "peach" has a short e sound, like in the word "red".
The words include bread, breast, breath, head, heavy, lead (element), and tread.
There are a few EA words that have a short E sound. They include the rhyming words bread, dead, dread, head, lead (substance), read (past tense), spread, stead, thread, and tread. Other EA words are sweat, threat, breast, deaf, treachery and treacherous.
Yes. The EA in reason has a long E sound, as in the rhyming words season and treason.