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Q: Is flute a long oo sound?
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What vowel sound does flute make?

Flute has a long U (long OO) sound, and a silent E. It rhymes with chute or shoot.


Does the word flute have a long U sound?

The word "flute" has the long OO sound, as in boot, moot, and suit.


Does flute have an oo or a yoo vowel sound?

The vowel sound is a long U (long OO) vowel sound (floot).The YOO sound is another form of the long U, long OO, where a consonant shapes a y-sound. Some YOO words are cute, mute, fuel, feud, and uniform.


Is flute a short vowel word?

No, "flute" is not a short vowel word. It contains the long vowel sound "oo" as in "flu-te."


Does flute have a long vowel sound?

Yes, the word "flute" has a long vowel sound in the letter "u," pronounced as "floo-t."


Does flute have a short vowel sound?

No, "flute" does not have a short vowel sound. To have a short U sound, it would have to rhyme with mutt or nut. To have a short OO sound, it would rhyme with foot or put. The word flute has a long U or long OO sound (floot). The long YOO sound appears in some long U words where the consonants provide a Y sound. Examples are cute, mute, mule, fuel, and feud. The YOO also appears in some words that start with U, such as uniform and unique.


Does the word true have the vowel sound yoo?

No. It has the long OO variant of the long U sound. The U is a long OO in true, blue, flue, flute, and chute. The U is a long YOO in cue, cute, mule, mute, fuel, and feud, and in unit and uniform.


Does cute have a long U sound?

Yes. Although most "long" vowels "say their name" the U sound can be OO (as in chute and flute) or YOO (as in cute and mute).


Does brute have a short vowel sound?

Yes, the word "brute" has a short vowel sound for the letter u, which is pronounced as /ʌ/.


Does brook have a long or short oo sound?

Brook has a long "oo" sound, pronounced as /bruːk/.


Is a double oo a diphthong or a short vowel or a long vowel?

The OO pair is a digraph. It could only be considered a diphthong when it is "short." The long OO is a single sound like other long vowels. The pair can also rarely have the sound of a short U (blood). The long sound is the OO sound (cool, moon, boot) and the same as some words with a long U (dune, flute, rule) that have no yoo sound. The short OO is an oo-ah sound as in book, good, and foot, also made by O in wolf and by OU in could and should.


How do you pronounce the long u sound?

The long U is an OO sound, which also sounds like YOO (the name of the vowel) when preceded by certain consonants. Long OO : chute, flute, boot, crew, new, due (do), cruel, suit Long OO (YOO sound) : cute, mute, mule, fuel, few,uniform, unique, you'll