What words have a long e sound spelled eo?

Answer 1

There are words that end in a long E, and words that end in a long E sound.

Here are a few:

E and EE words : be, we, fee, see, levee, nominee, detainee

EA words : sea, flea

Y words : baby, silly, wily, crazy

EY words : money

and from French:

IE words : bourgeoisie

IS words : debris, marquis, chablis

and from Irish:

AGH - shillelagh

Answer 2

Two words utilizing the "eo" to represent an explicit long "e" sound are people and theory - although, depending on the speaker, the "eo" in theory may sound less like thEE-rEE and more like thEE-u-rEE.

Examples of other words utilizing the "eo" where the "e" is long but the "o" acts as a second syllable include neon (nEE-AHn), rodeo (rOH-dEE-OH) and eon (EE-AHn).

Answer 3

Ah, what a lovely question! Words like "people," "leopard," and "behold" have the long e sound spelled with the letters e and o together. Isn't that just delightful? Keep exploring the beauty of words, my friend.

Answer 4

A long e is the the long ee sound in words such as bee.

Examples:

# Long e sound at the beginning: eagle, eel, eat, Egypt, emu, equal # Long e sound in the middle: leaf, peas, meal , keys, sheep # Long e sound at the end: three, me, tea, free, she

Answer 5

All of the one-syllable words that end in -ay (except quay) and the words that end in -eigh (weigh, sleigh). Also some words such as prey, and French words such as filet, croquet, buffet (noun), bouquet and risque.

Examples include

display

defray

highway

repay

delay

hearsay

outweigh

Answer 6

happy snappy funny angry sleepy twitchy itchy grumpy fatty skinny

Answer 7

People is one such word.

Answer 8

Hideous

Miscellaneous

Theory

Answer 9

People

Answer 10

Amoeba.